Hackathons

I've participated in several hackathons over the years. Here is a compilation of them.

FoundersHack
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FoundersHack

Won: 2nd - $1000 Prize

Doing conversational practice with students is time-consuming for language teachers. In 72 hours, we built and launched a product called Duck & Cat where teachers can create their own AI roleplay scenarios and automatically generate content from students' responses.

May 2025

NextGen Ventures

UNIHACK 2025

UNIHACK 2025

Thinking of gift ideas is hard. So we built Gifty.ai, an voice-activated AI agent to guide through choosing the perfect gift for that perfect someone.

GitHub

Mar 2025

UNSW

ElevenLabs x a16z Hackathon
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ElevenLabs x a16z Hackathon

Won: 2nd - AirPods Max

Standups are outdated. So we built Agility.ai, an AI project manager for outsourced dev work, that tracks GitHub and Jira tickets, talks to devs about their progress using voice, and escalates blockers. 100 remote devs = 1 human manager.

GitHubLinkedIn

Feb 2025

Build Club

Startmate Founder Challenge
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Startmate Founder Challenge

Won: 3rd - Ticket to Launch Club

In 2 weeks, pitched SkillScale, an AI-automated hiring pipeline for recruiters.

Dec 2024

Sydney

Relevance AI AI Tools Hackathon
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Relevance AI AI Tools Hackathon

Won: 1st - $300 Prize

Created an AI agent to find restaurants and order food with DoorDash on the Relevance AI platform.

Dec 2024

Startmate

Build Club x Tutero AI EdTech Hackathon
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Build Club x Tutero AI EdTech Hackathon

Won: 2nd - $300 Prize

Built 'StudyBuddy AI' - an app that watches your webcam 👀 and sends a personal AI-generated video message to you to remind you to get back on track.

GitHub

Dec 2024

Build Club

Euc AI HealthTech Hackathon
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Euc AI HealthTech Hackathon

Won: Best in Groq - $500 Prize

Built an app where users can take a photo of their receipt, and have it be translated into a nutrition summary, with AI providing feedback and generating a revised shopping list for the next grocery run.

GitHub

Dec 2024

Eucalyptus

SXSW Sydney AI Hackathon
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SXSW Sydney AI Hackathon

Won: Best in Relevance AI - $500 Prize

Built outLANDish.ai, a tool that uses AI agents to build a personalised landing page for selling B2B products to targeted customers.

GitHub

Dec 2024

SXSW Sydney

Terrible Ideas Hackathon
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Terrible Ideas Hackathon

Won: Peak of Pointlessness Award

Created 'Blink Camera' - a photo booth that only takes photos when people's eyes are blinking.

GitHub

Aug 2024

UNSW

Build Club AI Hackathon

Build Club AI Hackathon

Built Voluntario, an AI-powered platform that connects people to volunteering opportunities of their interest.

GitHub

Jun 2024

Build Club

SafetyCulture ShipIt Hackathon

SafetyCulture ShipIt Hackathon

Developed PoC of 'OmniSearch', a better way to search in the SC platform. Finalist, and chosen as 1 of 5 ideas to be turned into production.

May 2024

SafetyCulture

SafetyCulture Interns Hackathon

SafetyCulture Interns Hackathon

Developed an Apple Watch integration to ensure safety of lone workers, with rapid shift sign-on, location tracking, panic alarm, and creation of tasks with voice. Turned into actual project for senior mobile engineers.

Dec 2023 - Feb 2024

SafetyCulture