TreeHouse

Inspiration

Everyone has been there. You’re sitting in your 200 person lecture as the professor rambles on about some complex topic that goes way above your head. As you look around the classroom everyone else is furiously writing down notes, seemingly understanding everything the professor is saying. You feel completely alone. Imposter syndrome is something that can plague any student, regardless of social standing or academic achievement. Despite their popularity or academic success, many students still grapple with feelings of isolation and intellectual inadequacy. This troubling reality is the very problem we aim to address with our product, TreeHouse. TreeHouse is an anonymous online forum where students can voice their insecurities without judgment, connecting them to a supportive community that understands their struggles. By facilitating authentic vulnerable conversations in a safe digital space, we hope to relive the loneliness and self-doubt in which imposter syndrome thrives in.

What it does

These are our TreeHouses. Here we've created specific forums called TreeHouses where students feeling similarly can connect and be vulnerable together. To overcome issues like not knowing where to post or potential online bullying found on larger online forums such as Reddit, we leverage OpenAI's API (the same one ChatGPT uses) along with careful prompt engineering and seeding, to create a model that responds to questions empathetically, guides students to the right TreeHouse, and most importantly, prevents harmful comments from ever being posted. This creates a uniquely safe and supportive space for students to discuss their insecurities without fear of judgment or ridicule.