We lost. Lessons to employ into future hackathons: 1.) Lack of deployment. Learn aws as soon as possible. 2.) RAG based wrappers are only hated on linkedin folks who can't code. Implementation is hard and hence worth winning material for big hackathons 3.) Need better planning of what we want. 4.) Converse with judges sooner and get their brutal feedback 5.) Target smaller and obscure categories
6.) Sanity check on feasibility of the plan before coming
Previous Hackathon: Lincoln Financial (~October 20th 2025)
Didn't win. Lessons learnt: 1.) Learn aws. Use bedrock and textractor next time. FAILED 2.) Do end to end deployment. The objectives for hackathons, in public companies, differ from those of universities. Cooler project won't yield to winning outcome. FAILED 3.) Rehearse presentation to accomodate demonstration under time restraints. IT WAS BETTER 4.) Recommendation system was not good enough and final output was vague. Better way to tackle this was not to leave it all to U and assist in building it. IT WAS BETTER
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