lillycollege
A Laravel-powered college research and comparison platform that uses AI agents to analyze and present information about universities.
13 commits over 2 days
What it is
Lily's College Explorer helps students (likely built for or with someone named Lily) research and compare colleges by leveraging AI to generate insights, rankings, and summaries. The app features college profiles with AI-generated headlines, comparison tools, search functionality, favorites management, and a dashboard. AI agents (Analysis, Research, Validation) powered by Anthropic's API process college data from multiple sources and generate evaluation scores to help students make informed decisions about their education.
Why I built it
Built to help a specific user (likely "Lily") with the college search process, creating a personalized tool that goes beyond static college directories by incorporating AI-driven analysis and insights. This appears to be both a practical family/personal project and an exploration of agentic AI patterns in a real-world application.
Tech stack
Laravel 11 (PHP/Blade templates), Tailwind CSS, Vite, SQLite (with MySQL export capability), Anthropic Claude API for AI agents, Laravel jobs/queues for background processing
Timeline & effort
Last active Oct 30, 2025 — 13 commits across 2 active days (spanning 0 days).
Rapid 2-day sprint with 13 commits between Oct 29-30, 2025. Concentrated burst of development suggesting intensive focus on getting the core platform functional quickly, likely driven by a real-world deadline (college application season).
Did it turn out useful?
The app has sophisticated multi-agent AI architecture (Analysis, Research, Validation agents), complete CRUD features (dashboard, favorites, search, compare, rankings), deployment setup with CI/CD workflows, data export tooling, and is seeded with 40+ real colleges with images. The tight 2-day timeline and feature completeness suggest it was built to meet a genuine need for someone's college search process.