ProjectSphere 🚀

The ultimate student project showcase—discover, upload, and get inspired across all domains.

ProjectSphere is a web application designed for students to showcase their projects across various domains, allowing them to upload, manage, and share multimedia content such as documents, images, and videos. It serves as a platform for inspiration, learning, and preventing plagiarism in academic projects.

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🌍 Features

• Student Project Showcase: Upload and display your project with rich multimedia content.
• Bookmark Projects: Save interesting projects for later review, just like a "Watch Later" feature.
• Search Projects: Discover projects based on domains, technologies, and keywords.
• Domain-based Sorting: Categorized project display, from web development to robotics and more.
• Multimedia Storage: Upload images, documents, videos, and more to AWS S3.
• Responsive Design: Optimized for both desktop and mobile users with NextUI.

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js, NextUI, JavaScript
• Backend: Supabase (Auth & Database)
• Multimedia Storage: AWS S3 Bucket
• Styling: TailwindCSS

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⚙️ Installation Instructions

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Stavan1234/ProjectSphere.git
   cd ProjectSphere

2. Install dependencies:

   npm install

3. Create an .env.local file:

   • Set up your environment variables for Supabase and AWS S3 (check config/ProjectSphereClient.js for variable names).

4. Run the development server:

   npm run dev

   Open http://localhost:3000 in your browser.

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🚀 Usage

Once the project is up and running, you can:

• Sign up / Log in to access the dashboard.
• Upload your project: Add details like title, description, domain, technologies used, and upload multimedia.
• Search and filter projects by domain or keywords to discover new ideas.
• Bookmark projects you find inspiring.

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🔑 Project Structure

Here's a breakdown of the important folders and files in the project:

project-sphere/
├── app/
│   ├── api/                 # API routes for project upload and management
│   ├── bookmarks/           # Bookmark button functionality
│   ├── components/          # Reusable components (UI elements)
│   ├── myprojects/          # User's uploaded projects
│   ├── project_page/        # Individual project detail pages
│   ├── SearchProject/       # Search functionality for projects
├── public/                  # Static files like images and icons
├── lib/                     # Utility functions
├── utils/                   # Miscellaneous helpers
└── README.md                # This file!

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🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! To contribute:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature-name).
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add new feature').
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature-name).
5. Open a pull request.

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🏗️ Future Enhancements

• Live Demo: Once deployed, a link will be added here.
• AI Chatbot: An AI chatbot to guide users through the website, answer queries, and help with project uploads and features.
• Community & Threads: A community feature allowing users to interact, share ideas, and discuss projects through threaded discussions.
• AI Suggestions: AI-powered suggestions when a user opens a project, offering related research papers, tools, and resources from the web. These will be displayed like smart search engine results with links to relevant content.
• Gamification: Introduce gamified elements like achievement badges, XP points, leaderboards, and rewards to enhance user engagement and motivation.

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🏆 Status

This project is a work in progress, and we’re constantly adding new features and improving the platform.

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📸 Screenshots

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Ready to explore and contribute? Let's build something awesome together! 🚀