Tools and Technologies

You are free to use any tools that help you ship. Below are the recommended platforms across categories:

AI and Language Models

  • ChatGPT: chat.openai.com.
  • Claude: claude.ai.
  • Perplexity: perplexity.ai.
  • NotebookLM: notebooklm.google.com.

Vibe Coding and App Building

  • Bolt.new: bolt.new.
  • v0.dev: v0.dev.
  • Lovable: lovable.dev.

Design and Presentation

  • Canva AI: canva.com.
  • Gamma: gamma.app.
  • Adobe Firefly: firefly.adobe.com.

Voice and Media

  • ElevenLabs: elevenlabs.io.

Version Control

  • GitHub: github.com. All submissions require a public repository.

Deployment

  • Vercel: vercel.com.
  • Netlify: netlify.app.
  • Render: render.com.

 

All tools, APIs, models, and external services used must be declared on your Devpost submission page.

Inspiration

Not sure what to build? Start with the problem, not the solution.

Ask yourself: what frustrates people in your faculty every single day? What process wastes time, causes errors, or gets ignored because there is no better option? That is your problem. Now ask how AI could reduce that friction by even 30 percent. That is your product.

Some starting points by track:

AI in Health and Wellness: a tool that helps patients understand their diagnosis in plain language, a mental health check-in bot for students, a clinic appointment reminder system.

AI in Finance and Business: a personal budget tracker that gives AI-powered advice, an SME invoice and cash flow tool, a market research summarizer for business students.

AI in Security and Engineering: an AI-assisted vulnerability scanner, a data pipeline monitoring tool, a code review assistant for student projects.

 

The best submissions at Demo Day will not be the most technically complex. They will be the ones who solve something real.

Contact Us & Support Channels

For questions about registration or team formation, contact the NACOS Tech Week organizing team at nacosbhu@gmail.com.

For technical issues with your Devpost submission, visit the Devpost Help Center at: help.devpost.com.

Mentor support channels will be shared with all registered participants after team formation on May 17. Mentors are available throughout the build period for guidance, not to build for you.

 

For urgent issues during Demo Day, find any NACOS organizer at the registration desk in Archi Hall.

  • Devpost Help Center: help.devpost.com.
  • GitHub Student Developer Pack (free tools for students): education.github.com/pack.
  • Google Colab (free cloud compute for AI experiments): colab.research.google.com.
  • Hugging Face (open-source AI models and datasets): huggingface.co.

 

  • Roadmap for first-time builders (what to build in 4 days): will be shared in team channels on May 17.