This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend
What I Built
A friend of mine often struggles with exam preparation because lecture notes can be long and difficult to revise quickly. Reading pages of notes before an exam takes time, and finding the most important concepts is not always easy.
To help with this problem, I built Noteform, an AI-powered study companion that can:
- Generate concise summaries from long notes
- Create important exam-focused questions
- Generate viva questions for oral exam preparation
The goal was to make revision faster and more effective.
Demo
Live Demo: https://ai-notes-simplifier.vercel.app/
Home Page
AI Summarization
Important Question Generation
Viva Question Generation
Code
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Banshraj1/ai-notes-simplifier
How I Built It
Frontend
- React
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- Axios
Backend
- Node.js
- Express.js
AI Stack
- Google Gemma
- Hugging Face Inference API
Deployment
- Render (Backend): https://ai-notes-simplifier.onrender.com/
- Vercel (Frontend): https://ai-notes-simplifier.vercel.app/
Features
Smart Summaries
Transforms lengthy notes into concise, revision-ready summaries.
Important Questions
Generates exam-focused questions from the provided notes to help students prioritize their revision.
Viva Preparation
Creates viva-style questions and answers for quick oral exam practice.
Clean Interface
A simple and distraction-free interface designed around the study workflow.
Why Does Open Innovation Matter?
This project is powered by Gemma, an open AI model, through Hugging Face.
Using an open model gave me more flexibility in how AI is integrated into the application and avoids tying the project entirely to a single proprietary AI provider.
The open approach also makes it easier to experiment with different models and gives the project a path toward self-hosted inference in the future.
For a student-built project, this is especially useful because it lowers the barrier to experimenting with modern AI while keeping the architecture flexible.
Feedback
I shared the application with my friend, who found the Important Questions feature especially useful for quickly identifying what to revise before exams.
Live Demo
Try it here:
https://ai-notes-simplifier.vercel.app/
Prize Categories
- Build for a Friend
- Best Use of Open Source AI
- Best Use of Render
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