DevTrek - AI Tinkerers Dubai x Couchbase Hackathon
AI Tinkerers - Dubai
Hackathon Showcase

DevTrek

Team consisting of Syed Aiman Ali (Emirates Product Owner; McCombs, Python/data pipelines), Farooq Butt (INDEX DevOps; AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform), Ahmed Abdel Razek (Sudo BD; Microsoft/AWS/GCP).

3 members

🧠 Project Title: TripGenie – AI Travel Matchmaker
🌍 Project Description:
TripGenie is an AI-powered travel recommendation app built using Microsoft Power Apps and OpenAI GPT-4o. Designed during the AI Tinkerers Dubai Hackathon, the solution helps travelers discover the best city to visit based on their unique preferences β€” including climate, activities, budget, and personal travel goals.

The user interacts with a clean and intuitive interface built in Power Apps, answering a few simple questions. A dynamic prompt is then generated and passed to Power Automate, which formats it into a JSON request and sends it to OpenAI’s GPT-4o model.

In the background, we implemented a lightweight RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture using a curated dataset of global travel destinations stored with vector embeddings in Couchbase Capella. The AI cross-references user preferences with real destination attributes to deliver smart, personalized suggestions β€” all in seconds.

TripGenie showcases how low-code platforms combined with cutting-edge AI can solve real-world problems quickly, scalably, and beautifully.

πŸ’‘ Key Features:
Power Apps-based travel input form (climate, activities, budget, extra notes)

Dynamic prompt engineering from structured user input

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