🧠 Project Name: SkillMatch

🔍 What Is It About?

SkillMatch is a web platform that helps students and developers find hackathon teammates based on shared interests, skills, and project goals. Think of it as “LinkedIn meets Tinder for hackathons” — users create profiles with their skillsets, interests, and past projects, then get matched with compatible teammates via a smart recommendation engine powered by GraphQL.

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🌟 Key Features

🧑‍💻 User Profiles

• Create/edit profiles with:

  • Name, email
  • Skills (tag-based)
  • Project interests (AI, web, mobile, etc.)
  • Time availability (weekend-only, full-time, etc.)
  • Past hackathon experience
  • GitHub/portfolio links

🧠 GraphQL-Powered Matching

• GraphQL query finds top N compatible teammates using:

  • Shared skills
  • Shared project tags
  • Time availability match
  • Mutual likes (like Tinder-style)

📨 Messaging (via GraphQL Subscriptions)

• One-on-one chat between matched users
• Live updates using WebSockets (Apollo Subscriptions)

🔍 Teammate Discovery

• Browse other users
• “Like” profiles
• Filters for skills, tech stack, hackathon type

🐳 Dockerization

• frontend: Next.js (on port 3000)
• backend: Apollo Server (on port 4000)
• db: PostgreSQL (on port 5432)
• All running via docker-compose for isolation

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🧱 Architecture Overview

┌────────────┐       GraphQL        ┌─────────────┐
│  Frontend  │  ◀──────────────▶    │   Backend   │
│  (Next.js) │     Apollo Client    │ Apollo GQL  │
└────────────┘                      │  + Prisma   │
       ▲                            └─────▲───────┘
       │                                  │
  User Input                          PostgreSQL
       │                                  │
  Tailwind UI                      Users, Skills,
       │                          Projects Tables
       ▼                                  ▼
        ─────────────────────────────────
                Docker Compose Network

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##General Notes

• docker-compose up -d use this to run the servers
• docker-compose up --build use this to build newest versions
• docker-compose logs [folder name] use this to detect log errors

Running Locally for Frontend and Backend and DB:

• db: docker-compose up postgres
• backend || frontend: npm run dev