Awards & Recognition
- 🥇 Winner — Best Beginner Hack, HackRPI 2024
UrbanSpark is an AI-driven platform built by Roman Slack that personalizes urban opportunity discovery for young adults. It recommends jobs, workshops, and community resources tailored to user profiles, helping empower local engagement and accessibility.
Built at HackRPI 2024, where it won the Best Beginner Hack Award, UrbanSpark uses FastAPI and React on the application side and combines OpenAI with SerpAPI to surface and personalize relevant local opportunities for each user.
Key Features
- Personalized recommendations for jobs, workshops, and community resources
- AI-driven urban opportunity discovery for young adults
- User profile-based tailoring of results
- Search-powered opportunity surfacing
Tech Stack
FastAPI
React
OpenAI
SerpAPI
Designed and built by Roman Slack, Lead AI Platform Engineer. See more of Roman Slack's work on the projects page or get in touch via the contact page.