HIVE

The 2025 Eduvos HackJam brief asked for an innovation management platform: a digital space where ideas are logged, assessed and carried through to implementation. We built HIVE for students, a place to pitch ideas that improve campus life and the student experience, then vote, like and comment to surface the best ones.

A local AI model evaluates every submission. When an idea is vague or unusual it asks the student questions, then turns the answers into a detailed, actionable plan that staff can actually assess. Badges reward engagement, so contributing and giving feedback both count.

It ships as a progressive web app: one URL, installable, and the same experience on desktop and mobile. Behind it sits a micro-service backend with an isolated database per service, JWT authentication and PostgreSQL in production.

Over one month and three weeks, six of us shipped it across two repositories: 191 commits on 49 branches. I led the team as project manager and owned the UI/UX, splitting the work into services and screens and keeping the Git flow moving without anyone stepping on each other.