StudyBuddy: I Built an AI Study Planner for My Friend 📚🤖

Vaibhav Sarmai — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:23:53 +0000

My friend had a simple problem: studying was not the difficult part — figuring out what to study, when to study it, and how to stay consistent was.

So for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend, I built StudyBuddy — an AI-powered study planning assistant designed to turn a student's goals and available time into a practical study plan.

💡 What is StudyBuddy?

StudyBuddy helps students plan their studies without having to manually create complicated timetables.

You can tell it things like:

What you're studying

Your subjects or topics

How much time you have

Your goals

What you need to focus on

The AI then helps create a structured plan that you can actually follow.

🧠 What I built

StudyBuddy has:

🤖 AI-powered study planning

📚 Subject and topic-based planning

⏱️ Time-aware study schedules

📝 A simple student-friendly interface

🔗 A deployed backend connected to the frontend

🐍 AI planning logic running through the backend

I wanted the experience to feel less like using a complicated productivity tool and more like having a friend who helps you figure out what to study next.

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Backend / AI

Python

FastAPI

AI model integration

Deployment

Frontend: Vercel

AI Backend: Render

🚀 Try StudyBuddy
Live Demo:
https://vaibhavsarmai05-oss.github.io/StudyBuddy/

GitHub Repository:
https://github.com/vaibhavsarmai05-oss/StudyBuddy

❤️ Built for a friend

This project started with a simple thought:

What if studying felt a little less overwhelming?

Instead of building another generic AI chatbot, I wanted to build something focused on a real student problem — turning “I need to study” into “here's exactly what I can do next.”

This was also a great opportunity for me to experiment with connecting an AI planner to a real deployed application.

Thanks to the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge for the motivation to build something useful for someone around me!

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StudyBuddy: I Built an AI Study Planner for My Friend 📚🤖

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