Quillin'

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Inspiration

• We found that we sometimes get lost in class when writing notes or want to better format our handwritten notes. As coders, we've used Cursor and wanted something similar but for notes.

What it does

• we rebuilt a basic handwriting notes app much like notability and GoodNotes and overlayed a handwriting recognition and LLM chat capabilities.

How we built it

• We first began with a Figma design, but our our stack included a native swift app for IOS, and then a hosted FastAPI backend. Our 3rd party services included Groq, Google Cloud, and Railway.

Challenges we ran into

• This was the first time any of us used Xcode or Swift, so moving from WebDev to IOS development was a massive hurdle which led to hours of debugging. Our other hurdle was finding the right handwriting OCR. We first tried to host it ourselves, but then used an API.

• To use the handwriting, we used Apple's API for the apple pencil, but they make it really hard to interact with. In order to only select certain strokes instead of the entire page, we had to go about it in a very convoluted way.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We're really proud of getting it working. It was very exciting to get the API connect to the frontend and it was a massive moment for us. In addition, getting it over to IOS from our laptop was also a rewarding point.

What we learned

• We learned a lot about API's and programming in swift.

What's next for Quillin'

• I think many of us will continue working on the project after the hackathon.

Built With

• fastapi
• figma
• groq
• python
• swift