Library of College
An evidence bank for college essays: save your stories all year, then let AI find which ones answer each prompt.
- When
- Oct 2026 – now
- Role
- Builder
- Outcome
- Live in private beta
- Built with
- HTML and JavaScript, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Clerk, OpenAI
Why I started
Supplemental essays reward specific, lived details, and those details never show up on demand when you sit down to write. I hit this in the middle of my own application season.
What I did
I split the problem in two. Capture is a quick dump into seven categories that match how applications are structured, and AI writes the titles and sorts each entry.
Retrieval works by pasting in a real prompt: the model returns your best-fitting stories, labeled strong or possible, each with a concrete reason.
The whole app is one HTML file and one AWS Lambda. Sync is careful: stale writes are rejected and merged by entry, with daily snapshots, so nothing gets lost across devices.
Progress so far
It's live at liboc.vercel.app with a waitlist, and the code is public so others can self-host it.
What's next
Open it to more students this application season.