MindForge
Pitch an idea at a coding event and get a scored evaluation from Gemini almost at once, with a live leaderboard.
- Kind
- Web app
- Year
- 2025
- Recognition
- 90+ concurrent users · At an RVCE coding event
- Built with
- React
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- FastAPI
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
- Firebase
- 2 more
The question
How do you give a hundred people honest feedback on an idea in the time it takes to pitch it?
MindForge marks each pitch against the same rubric within seconds, and turns the marks into a leaderboard the room can watch.
Why it exists
At RVCE coding events, ideas arrive in bursts and scoring each by hand is slow. MindForge scores a pitch against a five-part rubric with Gemini and shows a live leaderboard.
How it works
From a pitch to a leaderboard
- 1
Pitch
A signed-in participant submits an idea of 50 to 2000 characters.
- 2
Queue
The pitch is queued and the form shows progress by polling for the result.
- 3
Scoring
Gemini scores five parts of the rubric, and the server clamps each score to 0 to 100 and adds them up.
- 4
Publish
The name, branch and score go on the public leaderboard, and the feedback goes to the participant.
Decisions
A submission is never lost
If the model has no key, returns nothing or returns something unreadable, a fallback evaluation based on the pitch’s length and keywords is saved and labelled as a fallback.
The prompt is the rubric
It states hard caps, for instance a pitch with no concrete prototype steps cannot score above 49 for relevance, so scoring stays consistent across hundreds of pitches.
The model’s answer is never taken as-is
The scores are clamped to 0 to 100, unknown keys are dropped and the total is computed on the server.
Two kinds of record
The public leaderboard entry holds only a name, branch and score, and the full evaluation lives in the participant’s own document.
Trade-offs and limits
- Model calls run one at a time behind a lock, because the client library sets its key globally, and the queue lives in a single process.
Built with
Frameworks and libraries
- React
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- FastAPI
Data and storage
- Firebase
AI and models
- Gemini 2.5 Flash
Infrastructure and services
- Vercel
- Render