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I lost 3 hackathons in a row. So I built a vampire judge to tell me why.

DEV Community·Raga Vinjanampati·about 5 hours ago
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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

Three weeks. Three projects. Three evenings refreshing the winners page.

Week 1: nothing. Week 2: nothing. Week 3, I built a couch potato that told my mom to make me skip a date, filmed her agreeing with it, made three videos and rewrote the post four times. Nothing.

Every time, I did the same thing afterwards: scrolled the winners list and wondered, what did they have that I didn't? Nobody tells you. You just lose quietly.

So for the final week, I summoned someone who would tell me. Someone strict. Someone who has sat on every jury since the fall of Rome.…

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