Builds Archive
Short-cycle builds, pivots, and lessons worth keeping.
Hackathons, builder tracks, and fast prototypes that taught me something useful. This archive covers 8 builds across 7 focus areas, and 2 of them carried on after the event ended.
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48-Hour Hackathon Build2025
CampOps
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Problem
Student and community events often rely on scattered spreadsheets, messages, and manual follow-ups, which makes volunteer coordination, sponsorship tracking, and event execution harder than it should be.
Build
I built CampOps, an event management CRM with Next.js, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Clerk, Redux Toolkit, and AI-powered risk analysis to centralize planning, operations, and communication in one workflow.
Takeaways
- For operational software, workflow clarity matters just as much as adding more dashboard features.
- Combining frontend state management, auth, and database tooling in a short sprint required strong boundaries between product scope and infrastructure work.
- A hackathon build can still feel production-minded when the system is organized around real team operations.