# Project export: UpStarter

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## Project metadata

- Hackathon: UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2025
- Tagline: Upstarter is an all in-one cofounder and startup matching platform. Whether you want to build cool projects or build your professional skills, Upstarter offers Recommender systems and agents to assist
- Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/upstarter-113
- GitHub: not linked
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/RbF5c8w-BKA?enablejsapi=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&start=&version=3&wmode=transparent
- Team: contributor stats unavailable

## Devpost submission (written by the team)

### Inspiration

Students in technical fields are struggling more than ever to land internships and full-time roles, they need a way to gain experience. Motivated students and professionals seek to begin startup ventures, but struggle to get started and find the right people. Existing platforms such as LinkedIn have +1k applications in less than 1 hour (incredibly challenging to get experience) Y-Combinator Cofounder matching helps you find a founder, but the filtering capabilities lack context

### What it does

Introducing Upstarter, an all in one platform where everyone wins. Are you a student looking for relevant experience? The recommender system will match you with a relevant project/startup. Are you an ambitious person looking for the right cofounders? The recommender system will once again help you match. Upstarter is a self-feeding pipeline where the users can quickly validate their ideas. If you don't move fast, you aren't a startup.

### How we built it

FrontEnd: React-Native BackEnd: Flask AI Agent: Elasticsearch embeddings search, LangChain for QA Agent Database: Supabase

### Challenges we ran into

Cold start problem in the recommender system, we solved it by generating our own synthetic data trying to recreate realistic scenarios. It was a large project

### Accomplishments we're proud of

Implemented a Recommender system inspired from youtube and TikTok (includes candidate filtering and ranking). Implemented a working social media application which tackles relevant problems for students in technical fields.

### What's next

- # 113 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbF5c8w-BKA Github: https://github.com/tonybuii2003/UpStarter

## README (from the GitHub repository)

No README available.

## Detected evidence (automated analysis)

No repository was indexed for this project. Claimed technologies below could not be checked against code.
- Flask (technology) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code
- LangChain (technology) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code
- OpenAI (technology) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code
- Python (language) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code
- Supabase (technology) — claimed on Devpost, not found in the code

## Codebase structure

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## Key source files

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