Interview.io 🎓🧑‍💻

The project "AI-Powered Real-Time Interview Coach" is an innovative virtual platform designed to help users improve their interview skills through a range of interactive and AI-driven features.

This project has been made by all of our collaborators of Team Codeblooded & has been submitted for HackOdisha'24.

🚀 Live here - https://interview-io-six.vercel.app/

🏆 This project has won 1st Place in HackOdisha 2k24!!

🌟 Features

• 💻 Simulated Interview Environment : The platform provides a real-time or peer-to-peer interview experience, allowing users to practice in a lifelike scenario using their webcam and microphone. This helps users develop time management skills and offers a flexible and convenient.

• 🤔 Quiz Section: The quiz system generates dynamic questions based on the user's inputs, covering any domain. The adaptive difficulty feature adjusts the complexity of questions in real-time, making it suitable for users at different experience levels.

• ❓ AI-Based Q&A Section: In this section, users receive AI-Based real-time, context-specific interview questions based on their skill level. The AI adjusts the difficulty based on the quality of the user’s responses, ensuring a personalized learning experience.

• 🤵 User Profile: Each user has a profile that tracks personal information, professional background, core skills, and the number of completed or upcoming interviews. This helps users stay organized and prepared for their interviews.

• 🚀 Future Enhancements: Planned future improvements include a real-time notification system, enhanced quiz security, video call functionality that supports more participants, and better integration between the overview page and upcoming interviews.

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: Vite ReactJs ⚛️, Tailwind CSS 🎨, Tailwind 🔄, SCSS 🎭
• Backend: Node.js 🟢, Express 🚂
• Database: MongoDB 🍃
• AI Integration: Google Gemini API 🧠
• Testing: Postman 📮
• Deployment - Vercel & Render 🚀
• Socket.io - For the chat and video calling functionalities 💬

🚀 Getting Started Locally

Project Setup

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/abhrajit2004/Interview.io.git

Frontend Setup

1. Navigate to frontend

   cd frontend

2. Install dependencies:

   npm i

3. Set up environment variables: Create a .env file in the frontend directory and add your required environment variables according to this format:

    VITE_API_URL='<your-backend-api-url'

   Format also present in the frontend folder in the file .env.example.frontend
   

4. Start the development frontend server:

   npm run dev

Backend Setup

1. Navigate to backend(In Another Terminal)

   cd backend

2. Install dependencies:

   npm i

3. Set up environment variables: Create a .env file in the backend directory and add your required environment variables according to this format:

   JWT_SECRET=<your-preferred-jwt-secret-key>
   MONGODB_URI=<your-mongodb-connection-string>
   MONGODB_URI1=<optional>
   GEMINI_API_KEY=<your-gemini-api-key>
   CLOUDINARY_API_KEY= 
   CLOUDINARY_API_SECRET=
   CLOUDINARY_NAME=
   NODE_ENV=development
   PORT=3000 

   Format also present in the backend folder in the file .env.example.backend
   

4. Start the server:

   npm run dev

🌐 API Endpoints

• POST /api/v1/auth/signup: User registration
• POST /api/v1/auth/login: User login
• POST /api/v1/auth/logout: User logout
• POST /api/v1/auth/editUser: Edit user information
• GET /api/v1/auth/getAuth: Get user authentication status
• POST /api/v1/auth/updateAvatar: Update user avatar
• POST /api/v1/rooms/addroom/:roomID: Add a new room
• POST /api/v1/rooms/deleteroom/:roomID: Delete a room
• GET /api/v1/rooms/getroom/:roomID: Get room information
• POST /api/v1/quiz/generate-id: Generate a quiz ID
• POST /api/v1/quiz/generate-quiz: Generate a quiz
• POST /api/v1/quiz/save-answer: Save a quiz answer
• POST /api/v1/quiz/evaluate-answer: Evaluate a quiz answer
• POST /api/v1/quiz/terminate-quiz: Terminate a quiz session
• POST /api/v1/questions/generate-questions: Generate questions for a quiz
• POST /api/v1/questions/chat: Interact with AI chatbot

😎 Members of our Team Codeblooded 👥

• Abhrajit Gupta - @abhrajitgupta
• Shuvadipta Das - @shuvadiptadas
• Ankita Sikdar - @ankitasikdar
• Megha Karmakar - @meghakarmakar

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to this project! Please feel free to submit issues, fork the repository and send pull requests!

📄 License

This project is licensed under: MIT licensed

🙏 Acknowledgements

• Gemini for providing the AI API
• MongoDB for the database solution
• Vercel for frontend deployment
• Render for backend deployment

Have a great job cracking journey with Interview.io! 🎓✨