Hackathon / Team leadership · National finalist
Masar AI
A UAE travel-planning prototype connecting discovery, itineraries, and a digital travel passport.
01 / CONTEXT
The challenge.
Planning a UAE trip often means switching between attraction listings, maps, booking services, and local information. Masar AI brings discovery and planning into a connected visitor journey.
02 / PROCESS
The approach.
- Build a Next.js and React interface for attraction discovery, itinerary planning, trip management, and a digital travel passport.
- Connect a FastAPI backend to PostgreSQL, with LangGraph orchestration, retrieval resources, and configurable travel-provider integrations.
- Develop supporting workflows for accessibility preferences, multilingual presentation, challenges, rewards, and receipts.
- Package the application with database migrations, deployment guides, a planning worker, and automated frontend tests.
03 / REFLECTION
The outcome.
Developed a working visitor-facing prototype and reached the HCT National Hackathon finals. The live demo and full source repository are linked below. The published source passed its production frontend build and all 165 frontend tests.
Project scope
Travel-provider features depend on configured services and credentials. Live booking, a Sharjah-led pilot, and wider tourism coordination are separate development stages.
04 / RESOURCES