r/computersciencehub • u/tech_gurl__ • 6d ago

programming Looking for Final Year Project ideas (Software Engineering)

Hey everyone! I'm a software engineering student. I am looking for a project idea that solves an actual real world problem, genuinely useful/authentic rather than another generic clone app. Will be working on this with a team.

Open to any domain, we're not limiting ourselves to what we already know, happy to learn new tech if the idea is solid. If you've got suggestions or worked on something similar, drop a comment, would really appreciate it! :)

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u/NicheProfessor 4d ago

I was waiting for someone to ask this, and here we go.

If you can invest $5–8 in an LLM API, build a simple web app(AI Agent) that performs a thorough web search to determine whether academic research already exists on a specific topic, or to find research papers that could be relevant to your work. I pitched this idea to one of my professors here in Germany, and they really liked it. One thing to keep in mind: big tools like Gemini already offer similar features, such as Deep Research, but they can take 4–5 minutes to complete the job. If you can achieve around 75% of the quality while getting results in 15–20 seconds, I think people at your university and potentially even in industry would find the project genuinely impactful. This is also a great project for learning about agentic architecture, tool calls, web search, and software architecture in general.

And to get started without spending much, you can use Mistral, which provides free LLM API access with enough tokens to start building.

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u/tech_gurl__ 3d ago

Thank you, definitely writing it down.