HighlightHub - AI Tinkerers - New York City Hackathon
AI Tinkerers - New York City
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HighlightHub

Team consisting of Ryan Washburne (Founding Engineer, Cove; UW BS; full‑stack TypeScript, React, IoT) and Juliana Bain (Senior Engineer, Humane; Cornell CS/Math; backend Java, voice).

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Project Overview

This project is an all-in-one solution for active reading, highlight organization, and insight sharing, built on a modern web stack.

Key Features

  • Chrome Extension for Active Reading
    Collect highlights or quotes from any article. All highlights sync to your personal workspace.

  • Highlight Management
    Organize highlights by category or date. Quickly retrieve them using intelligent text-based searching powered by vector embeddings.

  • Explore Feed
    Discover new insights by browsing a feed of highlights from friends or other users.

  • Weekly Highlight Report
    Generate a summarized overview of your personal highlights from the past week.

Tech Stack

  • T3 Stack
    • tRPC for type-safe end-to-end communication.
    • Prisma for database queries.
    • NextAuth for authentication.
  • Bun Runtime
    For fast, efficient server-side execution.

  • OpenAI
    Leverages vector embeddings and text generation to power intelligent searching and summaries.