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 …
Building JONAM: Using Copernicus Earth Observation Data to Help Restore Lake Victoria's Fisheries
"What if satellite data could help protect the livelihoods of millions who depend on Africa's largest lake?" Our team JONAM had the privilege of parti…
Building a 13-Agent Marketing Society on Qwen Cloud — What Actually Broke, and What I Learned Fixing It
Written for the Qwen Cloud Global AI Hackathon 2026 — Track 3: Agent Society. The idea Most "AI marketing" tools are one LLM wearing a lot of hats — a…
Building an AI Agent That Knows When Not to Guess (Qwen + MCP)
A payment landed for exactly half an invoice's value. The payer's email matched the customer on file. The reference generated by Paystack — the Stripe…
🚀 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 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…
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 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…
From an Idea to a Hackathon: Lessons from Organizing Build with AI Makerere
After months of planning, countless emails, sponsor outreach, community workshops, and late nights, we successfully hosted the Build with AI Makerere …
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 $3 Rubber Ducky
If you've ever watched a hacker movie and seen someone plug in a USB and own a machine in seconds — that's not Hollywood magic. That's a Rubber Ducky.…
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…
Portable: A Financial Platform for Gig Workers (HackNomics 2025)
What it is Portable is a financial platform I built for HackNomics 2025, aimed at the 70 million Americans working in the gig economy. The core idea: …
How do you handle "Hackathon Burnout" after shipping two projects back-to-back?
Hey DEV Community! 👋 I just officially hit "submit" on my entries for both the June Solstice Game Jam (I built Solstice Sync, a fast-paced cosmic alig…
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…
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…
OneAquaHealth IEEE Global Hackathon
🌍🌊 Join the OneAquaHealth - IEEE Global Hackathon 2026! A worldwide call to innovators, creators, and problem‑solvers - the IEEE and OneAquaHealth pro…
JahSeeToo The First Malaysia's Hacker
💻 Deconstructing Infrastructure: Automation, Reverse Tunneling, and Cyber Security Labs Originally drafted for my tech journal at github.com/toojahsee…