🎁 What I Built
I built GiftGuide AI, an AI-powered gift recommendation tool that helps people find thoughtful gift ideas based on:
- Recipient
- Occasion
- Interests
- Budget
- Relationship
The user enters these details, and Gemma generates four personalized gift recommendations with the gift name, why it fits, and an estimated price.
💡 Why I Built It
Choosing a good gift can be surprisingly difficult, especially when you know someone's interests but don't know what would actually suit them.
I wanted to build a simple tool that turns a few details about a person into practical gift suggestions.
I also wanted to explore how open-source AI can be turned into something that could potentially become a small side hustle.
🤖 How Gemma Is Used
Gemma is at the core of the application.
The user's information is included in a prompt containing:
- Recipient
- Occasion
- Interests
- Budget
- Relationship
Gemma then generates exactly four personalized recommendations.
Each recommendation includes:
Gift Name
Why it fits
Estimated price
✨ Features
- 🎁 Personalized gift recommendations
- 🤖 Gemma-powered AI suggestions
- 💝 Interest-based recommendations
- 💰 Budget-aware suggestions
- 🎉 Occasion-based recommendations
- 💻 Simple web interface
💼 Who Would Pay for This?
This could potentially be useful for:
- Gift shops
- Personalized gift businesses
- Event and wedding planners
- Small businesses offering gift recommendations
- People who frequently need personalized gift ideas
A future version could be offered as an AI recommendation service for businesses that want to help customers choose gifts.
🛠️ How I Built It
Frontend
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
Backend
- Python
- Flask
AI
- Gemma
- Google GenAI SDK
The application sends the user's preferences to the Gemma model and displays the generated recommendations in the browser.
📸 Screenshots
🌱 Why Open Innovation Matters
Open AI models make it easier for students, developers, and small creators to experiment with AI and build useful applications without having to train an AI model from scratch.
This project helped me explore how an accessible AI model like Gemma can be used as the core of a practical application.
🔗 Project
GitHub:
https://github.com/Ramyasaichalla/GiftGuide-AI
🚀 Future Improvements
Some ideas for future versions:
- Gift shopping links
- More detailed price filtering
- Better recommendation formatting
- Occasion-specific recommendations
- Public deployment
- Business-focused features
Built for the Hacktoberfest 2026 Week 2 — Side Hustle Challenge.
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