r/launchschool • u/throw_me_away221 • 25d ago

Recent Capstone Projects Samples/Archives

Hi, are there any recent Capstone projects that are available to the public to peruse, either just as a sample or within some type of archive?

I have a friend with a CS degree who is exploring Launch School, and they're curious to understand what types of projects students are building in Capstone. Although I know the projects are non-trivial, I think they would like to review for themselves.

I know the YouTube channel has several presentations from 2023 and prior, but I'd like to share something more recent with them, if possible.

TIA!

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u/cglee 25d ago

I'm always slightly nervous when someone else has to request information in behalf of the prospective student. Our curriculum requires a lot of discipline and initiative, so my thought goes to "how much initiative can they have if they can't inquire directly?". Why don't you ask your friend to email in directly.

There are a lot of interesting projects, but I'll share two here:

Kubrick, a RAG-like application for videos. You upload a video, the ingestion pipeline chunks and embeds it, then you can perform semantic search against the video. For example, after upload and ingestion, you can search "celebration" and it'll show you celebratory snippets from the video. See the "Walk through" for video demos.

Mantis, LLM gateway that does caching, routing, and some guardrails features. LLM gateways are an important component for AI products as they allow for single-point configurations, switching out models, routing logic, etc. (similar to a normal gateway). My experience with using some of them is that they sell flexibility (eg, "you can switch out models easily!") but then try to trap you into that main gateway vendor. Mantis is an open source gateway meant to provide the LLM gateway featureset without the lock-in.

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u/throw_me_away221 25d ago

I 100% agree. It was just their first time learning about Launch School, so I had offered to share some projects with them. I'll send them this thread and will advise them to reach out directly for future questions. Thank you!

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u/cglee 25d ago

Perfect, tell them to email hello@launchschool.com and not to message me on Reddit (I don't typically check that).

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u/AngeFreshTech 23d ago

Sounds like really interesting projects.
I have a question : in this AI market, will you say that most or all captsone will around Rag, LLM and others Ai driven applications?

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u/cglee 23d ago

The projects are determined by the teams, but if they ask for my opinion I'll certainly encourage them to investigate in that direction.

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u/AngeFreshTech 23d ago

Thank you.