SStavleakinstavleak.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 6 min readYour first hackathon: prepare well and get your project to a working demoGo into your first hackathon with a task you can finish and explain. For a beginner, a good result is concrete: your team builds a working user flow, submits the required materials on time and underst00
RReouinreou-ai.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 2 min readI built an agent that tests other agents' services for real, and it won two rounds of a hackathonI just won 1st place in the product review round and 2nd place in the trading round at the Trial Zero hackathon, which ran on SharedNet by Systemind. #TrialZeroHackathon What I built Agent KOL tests o00
MManishinkeirsalterego.hashnode.dev·Oct 1 · 9 min readThe judges agreed no more than chance: building ballotbench for Dogfood 2026Dogfood 2026 asked for a self-hostable hackathon portal: submissions, judging, a public gallery, exports, all running from docker compose up. The twist is in the name. These portals get judged by the 00
SStavleakinstavleak.hashnode.dev·Sep 30 · 6 min readHow to rehearse a hackathon demo without internet accessYour hackathon app can work on your laptop and still fail during the pitch. A remote API might stop responding, a token might expire, or the room's Wi-Fi might connect without reaching the internet. P00
ADAdarsh Divakaraninserpapi.hashnode.dev·Sep 25 · 4 min readIntroducing the SerpApi India Hackathon 2026We're running the SerpApi India Hackathon for developers across India. Build a project that uses live search data and compete for prizes worth ₹3 lakh+ in cash and SerpApi search credits. The hackatho00
JKJitesh Kumarinjiteshkumar05.hashnode.dev·Sep 4 · 3 min readVoiceFlow: How a 2-Minute Voice AI Became a 3-Second One (and Won Nationally)I built VoiceFlow because of one annoying, very specific problem: sales reps finishing a call and then manually re-typing everything that was just said into a CRM. Name, intent, follow-up date, all of15A
MManishinkeirsalterego.hashnode.dev·Sep 3 · 17 min readEvery bug was in a sentence I had already writtenstranger reads a project's lockfiles off disk and tells you which of its dependencies you have never met. Hallucinated names, code that runs at install time, the same package resolved at four versions00
SGShriganesh Guptain0xshriganeshgupta.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 5 min readThe Compliance Trap: Why Developers Need to Stop Hoarding User PIIWhen you're building a project for a weekend hackathon, speed is everything. You spin up a quick database, wire up an authentication or KYC provider, and save every single field they throw back at you00
AKAyan Khaninthunder-khan.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 16 min readI Built C++ Test Impact Analysis With Zero Runtime DependenciesI entered a zero-dependency hackathon thinking the hard part would be selecting tests. It wasn't. The hard part was deciding when I had enough evidence to safely not run one. Most C++ projects have a 00
NSNavraj Singhinnavraj-blog.hashnode.dev·Aug 29 · 5 min readSentinelForge - Autonomous SRE Incident Commander with TrueForge, Daytona, and QodoHow I Built an Autonomous SRE Incident Commander with TrueForge, Daytona, and Qodo It is 2:00 AM. Your phone buzzes with an urgent alert: P1 Outage — Checkout Service Returning 504 Gateway Timeouts. Y00
