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Bright MU
A mentorship platform: mentors run cohorts, set tasks, score submissions and issue certificates.
- Solo — built, deployed and operated
- Voluntary work
- 2025–2026
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organisations run this platform- Next.js
- React
- NextAuth
- Prisma
- PostgreSQL
- GSAP
- Radix UI
- Tailwind CSS
Built solo
One User account can hold both a Student and a Mentor profile, so someone can mentor one track while learning another. Mentorships carry a curriculum, a live progress feed, and task submissions that mentors score with written feedback. Competitions run mentorship-internal or platform-wide, with weighted criteria and multi-reviewer scoring. Certificates generate automatically on completion, and every action is captured in an audit log.
Ran real programs — two eras, one platform
The platform ran two frontend competitions, four concurrent technical trainings, and the five-week StackX3 camp. 101 trainees registered across the four October 2025 trainings, before the database was reset for a new instance. Since that reset, 202 users have signed up, submitting 183 tasks and earning 36 certificates — two eras, one platform.
It generalised — the Life Makers fork
Life Makers, Minia University runs its own forked deployment with its own database. The Summer Up Camp ran on it: 38 students, with Amr reviewing 82 tasks, creating 8 resources and 8 tasks, and giving 4 sessions. His profile on that deployment sits behind authentication and mentorship acceptance — the expected behaviour for a platform holding student data, not a gap.
Bright Ramadan — a 30-day measured system
A self-contained seasonal layer: daily Quran-reading logs, adhkar checklists, sunnah-prayer tracking timed to real prayer windows, daily riddles, streaks, and team leaderboards. Run as Bright Future × IEEE MUSB, 18 Feb – 19 Mar 2026. 104 registered on the sign-up form, all 104 joined the community group, and 89 — 86% — went on to actually use the platform over the 30 days, together logging 23,604 Quran pages. A points multiplier for the last ten nights nearly doubled daily output starting exactly on day 21, from around 4,100 points a day to 8,359. Day one had 41 active participants; day 29 had 15 — 37% day-1-to-day-29 retention, stated plainly.
Retention decayed and completion rose over the same 30 days: the group got smaller and more committed at once. 37% of day-one actives were still there four weeks later — a respectable curve for a voluntary habit tracker with no grade, no certificate and no employer behind it.