What Judges Actually Score: Notes From a Year of Hackathon Judging
I judged three hackathons over about ten days this July: MLH x DigitalOcean "AI for Social Good" on July 11, the Sports World Cup Hackathon in San Fra…
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We made SigNoz's LLM observability actually reachable…
-and added the one signal it was missing Track 01 — AI & Agent Observability. A hackathon project built from scratch, July 20–26, 2026. There's a …
The Rubric Line That Sent Me Down a Three-Layer Debugging Rabbit Hole
Two days before my hackathon deadline, I re-read the judging criteria for the track I was submitting to and found a sentence I'd apparently skipped th…
🚀 Building Two AI-Powered Solutions at HACKHAZARDS '26: VeritasFlow & PermitFlow
🚀 Building Two AI-Powered Solutions at HACKHAZARDS '26: VeritasFlow & PermitFlow How our team built two AI-powered solutions—VeritasFlow and Permi…
How I Built an AI Decision Copilot to Help India Prepare for the 2026 El Niño Crisis
Building an explainable AI platform that helps district administrators allocate resources and farmers make better crop decisions using Gemini, Vertex …
How I built an AI Dungeon Master that actually remembers what you did three sessions ago
% embed https://youtu.be/emnUvx4V8as % ## The demo moment Player types: "I push open the door of The Salt Lantern and step inside, shaking the rain of…
What Six Arguing AI Agents Taught Me About Building One That Actually Works
I broke my own project on purpose, twice, before it worked. Here's the story. Round one: the debate club My first idea for this hackathon sounded grea…
Building a 10-Agent Security Civilization with Qwen and Alibaba Cloud 🛡️🤖
Security auditing is broken. If you’ve ever run a static analysis tool (SAST) on a large codebase, you know the pain: thousands of alerts, zero contex…
Port Mortem 2026 - Hackathon
Port Mortem 2026 — Rewrite Real Software. Prove It Still Works. The software industry is entering a new era. AI can now rewrite thousands of lines of …
How We Built an AI That Remembers Your Team's Failures — Before They Happen Again
Built at HackHazards '26 · FlowMind The Problem Nobody Talks About Every semester, student teams repeat the same mistakes. Wrong person assigned to th…
Building a Multi-Modal Evidence Review Agent for Damage Claims
GitHub: Arul1998/hackerrank-orchestrate-solution Insurance and warranty claims appear straightforward: customers describe the issue and upload photos.…
Building a passwordless, Gemini-advised dashboard on the "zero stack"
I built Kajota Pulse and wrote this article as my entry for the **AWS × Vercel "H0: Hack the Zero Stack" * hackathon ( #H0Hackathon ). Live app: kajot…
Building Quudos: a casting platform on Amazon Aurora + Vercel
I created this post for the purposes of entering the H0: Hack the Zero Stack with Vercel v0 and AWS Databases hackathon. #H0Hackathon Inspiration — th…
How I Built ShopSmart AI with AWS DynamoDB and Vercel for the H01 Hackathon tags: aws, vercel, nextjs, hackathon
I created this project for the H01 AWS + Vercel Hackathon (#H0Hackathon). What I Built ShopSmart AI is a conversational shopping assistant that helps …
I Built a Music Production Tracker for the H0 Hackathon
I Built Finito: A Production Tracker That Actually Gets Music Producers *I created this post for the purposes of entering the H0 Hackathon. H0Hackatho…
How I built multi-tenant Row Level Security with Aurora PostgreSQL for a B2B SaaS — H0 Hackathon
I'll be honest: I almost did multi-tenancy the wrong way. When I started building InspectIQ "a SaaS platform for Florida home inspectors" my first ins…
How I built ZeroAudit — AI-powered SOC 2 compliance automation with AWS DynamoDB and Vercel
SOC 2 Type II audits are painful. Auditors want evidence for 42 controls — who has access, are vulnerabilities patched on time, does every deployment …
I Built a Telegram-Inspired Messaging App Out of Boredom — Meet IGram
Sometimes, the best ideas come when you least expect them — like at 2 AM, scrolling through social media with nothing exciting to do. That’s exactly h…
Hackathon Survival Guide: Questions Every Team Should Be Ready to Answer 🚀
As someone who has participated in multiple hackathons and won a national-level hackathon, I've noticed that many teams focus heavily on coding but un…
I built a release intelligence agent in 4 days with Coral, Groq, and Claude Code. Here's the exact route
5 days. Solo. First hackathon. One dashboard that tells you whether to ship. This is not a polished retrospective. This is the actual route I took — w…
How I Built RepoSense: A GitHub Intelligence CLI With Coral SQL
Every developer I know has the same problem: 300 open issues, 40 stale PRs, a security label buried somewhere in the noise — and no fast answer to wha…
My Journey Through Hackathons (~₹4L)
I started participating in hackathons during my first year of college. At that time, I had very little idea about how hackathons actually worked. I ju…
HackCanton Season 1: Canton Builders, Demos, Winners
Some hackathons are built like fireworks. Bright launch. Loud countdown. Forty-eight hours of chaos. A few demos. A few prizes. Then the repo goes qui…
HackCanton S2 is Open — Build on Canton and Win
We're running the second season of HackCanton — a hackathon for developers building on the Canton Network. 📅 Key dates: Registration open now Kickoff:…
We Gave IPL Captains an AI War-Room — Built in 6 Hours with Gemini 2.5 + ADK
What if every IPL captain had a full war-room of specialist AI analysts — each with a different role, each debating the optimal call — before every si…
Smart HackOS: An All-in-One System for Managing the Entire Hackathon Lifecycle
Organizing a hackathon requires juggling hundreds of moving parts—from attendee registrations and team matchmaking to handling code submissions and ma…
I built a 4-week hackathon focused entirely on real-world debugging instead of Leetcode problems
Most coding platforms train engineers to solve isolated algorithm problems. But in real engineering, you rarely reverse linked lists. You debug produc…
I Built a Real-Time Collaborative Whiteboard in One Day — Here's How
It started at midnight I had 24 hours, a free Replit subscription, and an idea: what if I could build something like Miro — but actually understand ev…
I built a journaling app where the database deletes your letter the day after we send it. Day 13 of 30.
FutureMe has 15 million letters in its database. They've been there since 2002. Some of them will be there in 2050. Evengood will have zero. This week…
I Built a Mood Ring for the Internet in 24 Hours
It was around 1am and I had three feeds open. X on my phone, Reddit on one monitor, Hacker News on the other. I was reading about a plane crash, a new…