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Introduction

Feeling intimidated reaching out to professionals? Don't sweat the small talk! NetWrk is your AI-powered assistant, helping you build meaningful connections and unlock the knowledge and experience of industry experts.

What does NetWrk Do?

They say "Your network is your net worth." But many people are uncomfortable with networking, for myriad reasons.

NetWrk is a website designed to help professionals and students who are strengthen their network and have meaningful conversations. Our built-in AI assistant analyzes public information, like LinkedIn profiles, to suggest relevant questions and break the ice.

What We used to Build NetWrk?

The Front-end was primarily:

React.js
Tailwind The Back-end was primarily:
Python
Flask
LangChain
GeminiAI
MongoDB Any extra technologies were:
- GitHub
- GenerativeAI
- Google Cloud

Challenges We Ran Into

One of our issues was working with Gemini to make sure our context window was not being overrun. To combat this we implemented various techniques such as chunk summarization and substitution. Writing effective prompts for the model so that even with large amounts of data does not get overwhelmed and will deliver a quality response and leave a positive on impact the user.

Also CSS animations were painful...

Accomplishments that We're Proud Of

We are proud to have created a MVP that will help people to form connections, learn, and grow, specifically those who are not as comfortable with this process. This includes people who are neurodivergent, international professionals and students who are unfamiliar with local business cultural practices, and people who have less experience networking effectively.

NetWrk helps you identify gaps in our social understanding, pushes you to take the next step forward, and makes sure you're on the right track to achieve our goals. Professionals are very busy so having a way to communicate with them and ask questions efficiently is important.

What we learned from building NetWrk

We have learned that when building a hackathon project using a model, we won't have as much time to train and develop the model's responses because of the competition's time limit. This means that when someone is requesting to send questions, the AI might provide with responses that are not specifically curated to the professional at first.

What's next for NetWrk

NetWrk has the potential to become a powerful application for assisting young or inexperienced, neurodiverse, and international students and professionals in connecting with professionals/mentors. The next step would be to integrate users sending received messages from the professional into the application to help our AI model curate more meaningful and knowledge driven question to ask the professional about their skills and experiences.

We also plan on making it a chrome extension so that users can continue to network on LinkedIn without changing tabs.