Smart Course Planner
Provably-optimal degree planning for Purdue engineering
Details
- External ID
- 1262952
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Smart Course Planner
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Open Source, Education, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A constraint-based course scheduler for 7 Purdue engineering majors. Models each degree as a dependency graph, solves for the fastest path to graduation, and mathematically verifies the result against a combinatorial lower bound, so "optimal" isn't just a claim. Includes a 3D orbitable critical-path view, weekly timetable withics export, and GPA projection. No account, no framework, runs entirely in your browser.
Enrichment
- Theme
- autonomous agent research and evaluation
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- degree course schedule optimizer for purdue engineering students
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Formulating exact university degree requirements into combinatorial optimization models (SAT/ILP solvers) with mathematical proofs and bounds requires formal methods and operations research expertise.
What it would actually take: The backend requires an exact constraint satisfaction solver (such as Z3, OR-Tools CP-SAT, or Gurobi) modeling course prerequisites, corequisites, semester availability, credit limits, and degree pathways as an Integer Linear Programming or Satisfiability problem. The system must scrape, parse, and maintain complex academic catalog logic into a directed acyclic graph and compute theoretical combinatorial lower bounds, demanding strong expertise in operations research and graph algorithms rather than standard app development.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #18 of 46 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
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- course-planner · github · 2026-09-10 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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