Originally launched for my (and my roommates') resume building purposes, over a hundred people have used it to build their own resumes. EssaySwap acquired it in mid 2024.

A platform for students to get their essays reviewed by other students. I'm helping them expand into the resume building/reviewing space.

I started a grade transparency tool designed for students at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. The project is currently used by over 40K students and receives over 5M views per semester. I also built the chrome extension that adds features to a bunch of internal UMN websites, and it has about 3k weekly active users and a 5 star rating.

Having been at a mall during a shooting, I wanted to build something more effective at safety alerts than just Citizen and Twitter. This was the inspiration behind our first ever hardware hack! We built an antenna that listens to police radio transmissions, transcribes them on-device, and sends push notifications if there's danger in their proximity. Not wanting to spend $400 for a pre-built police receiver, we built our own receiver from a Raspberry Pi and a RTL-SDR dongle. We won 2nd place at LAHacks '23!

Over the course of this hackathon, we filmed as much of ourselves having fun as we could—programming, talking to others, playing with a dog named Jackson, trying to remember names, food review, everything—to use as input for Google's Gemini. With the help of Gemini, our project auto-curated a selection of highlights from the many hours of filming complete with selecting transitions, music (generated as well!), and timing. Most of the hackathon was wrangling ~20 hours of GoPro footage into a format that Gemini could understand and edit. We won Google's Gemini Prize at LAHacks 2024 :)

Transcribes lecture videos, detects when slides are changed, and has a very sexy UI. Most of the interesting work here was done in the backend. We used SIFT to detect slide changes in the video, and then we used that information to split the video into segments based on the slides. We won 2nd at TAMUhack 2022!

Suggest and explain revisions to code to facilitate learning, via a VSCode extension and an ensemble model. Technical details are on our Devpost and Github. We won top 5 overall as well as the YCombinator prize at HackMIT 2022. This was super fun to build (and we felt really cool!) right before ChatGPT released two months later.

After unsuccessfully trying to create a VR hack for watching movies with friends together, we pivoted to create a browser extension that helps users be more aware of when they get off topic while studying. It uses some basic sentence embeddings to detect when a user is going down a rabbit hole or changing topics in a way unconducive to learning. We won first overall in CuseHacks 2022!

Automatically blurs protestors’ faces to alleviate the risk of them being identified from media coverage. The selective whitelist allows reporters to continue business as usual—providing crucial exposure—while avoiding putting those around them at risk. The core function of the platform is a real-time RTMP proxy that existing video feeds can be passed through seamlessly before being streamed on platforms such as YouTube or Twitch or broadcasted to live television. As a proof of concept, the website integrates with YouTube Live but the easily-accessed RTMP URI can be used anywhere. Won 3rd overall at SantaClara '22!

Half of our team had recently won VR headsets at a previous hackathon. Eventually, the novelty of Beat Saber, Gorilla Tag and other somewhat dubious activities wore off so we decided to make something ourselves, drawing inspiration from various party games. 3Draw is our take on a long series of thing-drawing games like skribbl.io or Gartic Phone. A silly hack that stands out via our chaotic, AI-powered, voice-chat guessing system and largely dysfunctional artistic tools. Our submission for HackIllinois 2022.

A knowledge base that allows you to store videos, write notes on them or even annotate on the video, and then query everything with natural language. You can even share your vaults, taking notes with your friends, an incredibly common college student pastime. Woo, real-time collaboration. It also (mostly) works offline! You can still search, upload videos, draw on them, and all that fun stuff. If you're like me, your vault will even still have the same number of collaborators! We used LLMs to synthesize information across videos but it's just barely infeasible to run a 30B parameter model on an M1 Mac. Our 13B model was not very cooperative. Our HackPrinceton 2023 submission.

At NYU's hackathon, we gave ourselves a challenge: we were going to build an app, chrome extension, and a website in 21 hours. We made a tool to hold yourself accountable for your goals by sending embarrassing texts to your friends if you don't stay on track -- similar to Honk but extended to generic tasks instead of just focus. We won 1st in Education/Top 3 Overall :)

We built our own local live-transcription service with Whisper as a base, as well as our own from-scratch annotation tool compiled into a native iOS app. We won 1st place at HackUIowa 2022!

For my first ever hackathon, my sister and I created a 3D watch together space without three.js or the like -- just pure CSS transforms. This was intentional; we wanted to give ourselves the challenge of creating a pure-css 3D environment. We ended up winning first place and $600 at SonomaHacks. Lots of info is on our DevPost; check it out!

Designed, programmed, and published iOS and Android app for Brookings High School students for fast and reliable emergency alerts. 2000+ downloads over the last year (BHS has ~800 students). The Brookings School District was in talks to purchase the app for every school in the district, but those talks got cancelled due to COVID. Coded in React Native with Node/Express/MongoDB/Firestore backend.

Use your webcam to smash your favorite songs! Play any beat saber map with a webcam, powered by Tensorflow and ThreeJS! All of the 3D animations in-game were done with three.js. The UI was built with React and node.js. Models of the boxes and hands were made in Blender. ParticlesJS was used to make the particle effects in the background, and PoseNet was used to track the player's pose on the webcam. We made this for Los Altos Hacks 2021 and didn't win anything, although it was a super fun project :)

devJS provides an internet-free code editor and interpreter to developers with a bundled NodeJS binary. devJS runs a compiled version of NodeJS ChakraCore on iOS and uses Termux on Android. We used React Native to build the 'front-end' of our application, which includes defining transitions between screens using the StackNavigator.

I was the director for South Dakota's overnight high school debate camp during my gap year! We hosted around 50 students with 8 staff members in the summer of 2022. On top of the logistical work, I managed the fundraising, advertising, and development of surprisingly many custom tools and websites for the camp, especially when it was all remote in 2021. While we can't claim all of their success, our alumni have gone on to win many tournaments, including the State Tournament and 3rd at the National Tournament :) South Dakota State University has since taken over DDI and expanded it to more forensics events.

Google Code In is an initiative that allowed students to complete tasks for open source organizations. I participated with SugarLabs, an organization that maintains the Sugar OS on the >3 million One Laptop Per Child laptops in underdeveloped areas. First year: worked on MusicBlocks and SugarLabs website, fixing bugs. Second year: worked on MusicBlocks; expanded export and import functionality to more file types; proposed and created a Git-based version history system for blocky-code; tested and experimented with the viability of refactoring the entire codebase into a Model-View-Controller design.

I wrote and deployed a custom phpBB3 gallery at scioly.org/gallery. Currently, the gallery hosts more than 4k images and videos on a NodeJS bucket server that generates thumbnails and low-res images for slow networks. Scioly.org is the largest student center for Science Olympiad students. Having been around for 22 years, the website provides guidance for the more than 54,000 registered users.

Contributing to this was one of my first forays into open source, I refactored the transporter from mutt to nodemailer.

Simple create-react-app with Material UI to create a 'dashboard' for the BHS SciOly team I captained for 3 years.

I made most of this in a 12-hour sprint to win first place at SDSU's Programming Design Contest! It was a competitive multiplayer version of the picture puzzle gadget from Windows 7, but most of the files corrupted and the source is no longer available 😔

My first chrome extension and my first project for Scioly.org. I've since added (or helped add) all of the features, except for infinite scrolling, to the main scioly.org website.

I made this as a small playtest for NextJS and Chakra UI. It was used as an activity for Dakota Debate Institute. The rules are simple: the players pick a card each and then argue over who would win in a battle to the death.

A bare-bones screensharing application that I made to test out WebRTC during our first two week quarantine.

A MERN-stack application that was the sole ticket and meal management platform for Brookings High School's 2021 Prom. Used to great success managing tickets, meals, and seating. Managed authentication so students could verify their eligibility to purchase tickets.