A smarter way to meet builders on campus.
CampusCollab is a full-stack web application that helps university students connect with like-minded peers based on shared skills, interests, and project goals. Whether you're looking for a hackathon partner, startup co-founder, or just someone to collaborate with, CampusCollab helps you discover and connect with the right people.
- Signup & Login – Secure account creation and authentication using hashed passwords.
- Onboarding – Multi-step onboarding flow where users provide skills, interests, and profile info.
- Swiping Interface – Swipe through curated recommendations and express interest by liking or skipping.
- Real-Time Chat – Matched users can chat in real time using sockets.
- Spam Protection – Redis token-bucket rate limiting with retryAfter feedback to the client.
- Profile Management – Users can update their bio, skills, social links, and account credentials.
- Vector Embeddings – User profiles are embedded using a SentenceTransformer model for semantic similarity.
- Recommendation Engine – Similar users are ranked using cosine similarity and stored for quick access.
- Scheduled Updates – An AWS Lambda function periodically updates recommendations in the background.
- Framework: Next.js
- UI: Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Radix UI, MUI, Lucide Icons
- Real-Time: WebSockets via
socket.io-client
- API Server: FastAPI for REST and WebSocket endpoints
- Auth: JWT-based authentication with secure password hashing
- Database Access: Supabase client for interacting with PostgreSQL and calling RPCs
- Embeddings:
sentence-transformers(MiniLM model)
- Database: PostgreSQL (managed by Supabase)
- Scheduled Tasks: AWS Lambda + EventBridge (for recommendation updates)
cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev
Open a new terminal.
Make sure Docker is running, then in a terminal:
docker run -d --name redis -p 6379:6379 redis:7-alpine
cd backend
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python -m uvicorn main:app --reload