Mark, the Matchmaker, is the all-knowing super-connector who knows everybody present at your hack-a-thon, their skills, interests, project ideas, and need for teammates. He can suggest highly compatible team compositions, naming the project, each member and their area of contribution. You can ask him innumerable questions to get matched with the right people to work on your project idea.
Mark uses Retrieval-Augmented-Generation (RAG) via a vector database and GPT-4 to store the DevPost profiles of all the participants at your hack-a-thon, and query them like the all-knowing super-connector he is. We built this as a team of one, a solo hack-a-thon entrant, for the RAG Hackathon on 2/5/24 in Santa Clara, CA sponsored by LLamaIndex.
Out of the 50+ projects demo’d, this project got the only full-audience-spontaneous-ovation, earning it the unofficial audience-choice award.
Our inspiration to build this came from the fact that the hack-a-thon itself was not well set up to allow people who arrived without a team to find and join teams to build projects for the hack-a-thon. So, somewhat cheekily, we decided to make our project be the solution to the problem we had, which was not having an efficient mechanism to be match-made with other developers who wanted to work on a particular problem, and had the skills to develop it with us. Therefore, we built that exact thing, somewhat aptly, as a team of one.
Stack:
- RAG
- GPT-4
- Vector Database
- LLamaIndex