Exam AI – something I built during the MeDo hackathon

Eszter Kovacs — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:30:20 +0000

🚀 During the MeDo hackathon,I built something surprisingly simple — but genuinely useful: Exam AI 📚🤖

The idea came from a pretty common frustration.

A lot of studying turns into passive repetition:
reading the same notes again and again, scrolling slides, highlighting things… and hoping it somehow sticks.

I wanted to build something more active.
Something that actually makes you think while learning.

So I created Exam AI. This AI tool is very easy to use.

You give it a topic, and it:
✨ generates exam-style questions
✨ lets you answer interactively
✨ explains the answers clearly
✨ helps you dig deeper when something doesn’t fully click

It feels less like a quiz app and more like studying with someone who keeps asking the right questions.

⚙️ Building it

I used MeDo to build the project, which let me move really fast.

Instead of spending the whole hackathon dealing with setup or infrastructure, I could focus on:
🧠 refining prompts
🧠 improving explanations
🧠 making the experience actually helpful

Most of the work wasn’t technical complexity — it was figuring out how to make the AI respond in a way that feels useful and natural.

🧩 The difficult part

The biggest challenge was keeping things consistent.

With AI, small changes in prompts can completely change the quality of the output.
Some questions were great. Others… not so much 😅

We also had to constantly fight the urge to add more and more features.

In the end, keeping the product focused was probably one of the best decisions we made.

📚 Biggest takeaway

Hackathons really remind you that:
⚡ speed matters
⚡ simple ideas win
⚡ shipping something beats endlessly planning it

And honestly, AI becomes much more powerful when you focus less on “cool features” and more on helping people in a practical way.

I am excited to keep improving it — especially around personalization, progress tracking, and adapting to weak areas over time.

But for now, we’re just happy we turned an idea into something real 🙌

You can check my app here:
https://medo.dev/projects/app-bdybwhukvg8x
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFDX8r6-ULY

🎃 My Kiroween Hackathon Experience — I Built a Spooky Landing Page with MCP Integration using Kiro IDE

Eszter Kovacs — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 10:17:39 +0000

I joined the Kiroween hackathon with one goal: build something fun.
A few late-night ideas later, I ended up creating a Halloween-themed, API-powered landing page — entirely by myself, inside Kiro IDE.

👻 What I made

Spooky Landing Page with MCP Integration — an animated, glowing UI that pulls real-time spooky quotes via MCP.
It reacts, flickers, whispers Halloween mood into the screen.

Features:

🔮 MCP + ZenQuotes API connection
💀 Animated UI states (ghost / moon / crystal ball)
🎨 DiceBear avatar generation
⚡ Smooth transitions + spooky sound cues

Short project — big vibes.

🧰 Built in Kiro IDE

I didn’t code this traditionally — I built it through conversation.

Using Kiro IDE, I generated components, refined effects, and integrated MCP endpoints quickly.
It felt less like typing code, more like designing an idea in real time.

🏁 Why this mattered to me

I learned how fast a solo developer can move when the tooling flows with creativity.
Kiro IDE helped me think, build, and refine — not just code.

Small project, but it left a big smile.👻🔥

Forem: Eszter Kovacs