stillwater-pulse
🏆 Winner – OSU Hackathon 2025 Best Theme & Best Use of ElevenLabs AI | Stillwater Pulse gathers Instagram content to help users discover events in Stillwater, enhanced with an AI chatbot and TTS.
- Repository
- AidenCarrera/stillwater-pulse
- Created
- November 1, 2025
Highlights
- Won Best Theme and Best Use of ElevenLabs AI at Oklahoma State University’s 2025 hackathon.
- Aggregates recent Instagram content from local organizations through server-side RSS fetching.
- Uses Google Gemini to answer questions about events, restaurants, OSU updates, and local activity.
- Adds ElevenLabs text-to-speech playback to AI-generated responses.
- Combines a responsive Next.js frontend with a FastAPI backend.
Stillwater Pulse is a local event discovery platform created for Oklahoma State University’s 2025 hackathon. It brings recent Instagram posts from Stillwater organizations into one place so visitors can see what is happening around town without checking several accounts.
The Next.js frontend fetches RSS feeds on the server, sorts posts chronologically, and renders official Instagram embeds. A FastAPI backend connects the collected content to Google Gemini, allowing visitors to ask about events, restaurants, OSU updates, and other local activity.
ElevenLabs adds text-to-speech playback for assistant responses, making the chat experience more conversational and accessible. The project won Best Theme and Best Use of ElevenLabs AI at the hackathon.