CodeLab Spring 2025 Product Showcase Recap

About CodeLab

CodeLab is a UC Davis student-run tech consulting club powered by interdisciplinary teams of software developers, UX designers, and project managers. Our Client teams work with industry leading companies, but we also welcomed our Product and AI teams this year. Our Product team created an app from idea to launch while our AI team created an AI-powered product. Over the 2024-2025 school year we had 16 teams and worked with 11 clients.

Event Overview

The CodeLab Product Showcase featured 11 dynamic student teams from our Winter and Spring cohorts, each delivering 3-minute pitch-style presentations designed to spark curiosity and excitement about their products. These short but impactful presentations served as previews, but each of these projects has a detailed story to tell! You can dive deeper into the technical challenges, design decisions, and team journeys on our Medium page.

Adding to the night's inspiration, the event also welcomed four distinguished keynote speakers—Anna Marrero, Greg Larkin, Heather Meeker, and Katherine Druckman—each bringing their unique perspectives and experiences to the forefront.

Winter Quarter Team Presentations

Our Winter Quarter teams started presentations off with a bang, showcasing the culmination of their 1-2 quarters of work that tackled real-world challenges.

One team partnered with a Fortune 15 Renewable Energy and Natural Gas company (under NDA), delivering a polished full-stack application that streamlined internal workflows and enhanced productivity. Another team worked with Circle to build a generative AI hub that let users generate many different kinds of creative work and pay with crypto-based metered billing, complete with USDC integration and wallet-based authentication. Our collaboration with Solidigm resulted in a powerful .NET-based OKR dashboard tailored to enterprise needs, with a Dockerized handoff for seamless on-prem deployment. Finally, the Goodnotes team crafted a proof-of-concept for integrated AI tools to augment notetaking with document analysis and outline generation.

From secure authentication flows to polished UIs and robust backend infrastructure, these projects reflected both technical rigor and user-centered thinking. Each team brought their own flair—whether through creative UX, scalable engineering, or tight client communication. The result was a showcase of what thoughtful, cross-disciplinary teamwork can produce in just 8 weeks for most teams.

Check out the Medium write-ups for each project below!

• Fortune 15 Energy Company: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/company-z-2e70414d878c
• Solidigm: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/solidigm-wsq-d953167514d7
• Circle: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/circle-ai-generation-platform-with-usdc-integration-eb2d1f11bf62
• Goodnotes: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/goodnotes-cf30958bf20c

Spring Quarter Team Presentations

We followed up with more amazing presentations from our Spring Quarter teams who displayed work that CodeLab has yet to seen yet in the AI and AR space.

We had many familiar clients from Winter Quarter such as Solidigm and Goodnotes who innovated new technology utilizing fine-tuning AI techniques. Our Solidigm AI team built out a custom RAG architecture for past service tickets, solutions, and product specifications! Furthermore, our Goodnotes Spring Quarter team reimagined what note taking may look like in the future by building out an Agentic AI workflow to generate diagrams, charts, images, and more with just natural language.

We also saw new clients with both Snap Inc. and Reddit! Our Snap Inc. team worked on the exciting new universe of Augmented Reality where they designed and developed new AR experiences using Snap's Lens Studio. They created an Animal Kingdom in the world of AR where you can find out your Zodiac, visit a Pet Gala, and more! Last but not least, our Reddit team brought the MLB straight to your phone by creating a new way to experience the game live! They developed a mobile app to offer an interactive MLB scoreboard experience utilizing the Reddit platform.

Our spring quarter teams were able to accomplish a lot in the past 8 weeks and we're so excited for all the projects that were developed!

Check them out here:

• Solidigm AI: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/solidigm-ai-25f524fdce2a
• Goodnotes: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/goodnotes-sq25-b3a9041d77e7
• Snap Inc.: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/snap-x-codelab-5d85534e0c2a
• Reddit: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/reddit-1f13d47def2f

New Programs: AI and Product Cohorts

CodeLab started 2 new programs this year focused around both AI and Product! We were really excited to see the amazing projects that they built out in the past year and were astonished from the results!

Our AI Cohort built Volare, a new AI solution to practice interviews as many times as you would like! You are able to hop on a call with an AI interviewer who will interview you in real time where you will receive feedback following the mock interview!

Our Product Cohort built Pinpoint, the new solution for UC Davis students to locate their lost items. Many students tend to have lost track of an item at some point in their college experience, and UC Davis' lost and found process is very difficult. Pinpoint is able to skip the middle step and provides a place to share and claim lost items on a single platform!

See more about what they built here:

• Product: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/pinpoint-9c393e2fc51f
• AI: https://codelabdavis.medium.com/volare-ai-powered-interview-preparation-spring-2025-cbb9fcfcf609

Keynote Speakers

We were honored to welcome 4 guests to speak on relevant topics for the tech industry.

Anna Marrero from Golden 1 Credit Union discussed the importance of storytelling to influence teams and how design plays a key role in decision making. Greg Larkin from GitHub reflected on the changes our industry has seen and how it will continue to develop extraordinarily through the integration of AI. Heather Meeker, a co-founder of Chinstrap Community, discussed the business surrounding open source software. And finally, Katherine Druckman from Intel highlighted the innovation potential with open platform for enterprise AI, aka OPEA.

Thank You to Our Community

We'd like to thank everyone who made the showcase possible. From our board who tirelessly worked through every logistics related detail, to our cohort who truly shined during each presentation and without whom CodeLab would not be possible, and to our faculty advisors who have supported us every step of the way, CodeLab would not be what it is without you all.

If you're inspired by any part of our mission or event, please get involved by applying to our next cohort or collaborate with us as our next big client project!

See you all next year!