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Hackathon Website is a suite of tools provided to hackathon organizers, participants, and supporting members to reduce the amount of work required. It has been battle tested through 5 hackathons during the 2023 - 2024 school year and performed exceptionally well. Scalability issues were addressed immediately in time for the next hackathon and worked exceptionally well. Security issues were resolved before the initial deployments and no security breaches occurred during the 5 hackathons.
The unison in hackathon website is unlike any school has seen, allowing UCR hackathons to excel years in their technological development. The hackathon website system is competitive with the same systems that UCLA, Stanford, and Berkeley use for their 700+, 1500+, and 800+ participant hackathons respectively. In some cases it exceeds their systems capabilities. Many Ivy League schools do not have systems comparable to UCR due to the advancements in the hackathon website.
Without the system today, many of the newer hackathons, primarily Bearhack and DesignVerse, would have to spend several years before they build such a system independently. Cutiehack, Rosehack, and Citrushack, the more mature hackathons in regards to age would still have to spend a few more years before they could catch up in terms of hackathon website development.
Hackathon-website, also known as Aurora, holds a special place in my journey—it was filled with many firsts. It was the first time I rediscovered my passion for building, the first time I worked closely with a team, and the first time I found a group of like-minded people I had been searching for during my first two years of college. It also marked my first real exposure to full-stack web development.
This project was instrumental in shaping my growth as a developer. I went from fixing small bugs to working on databases, building static pages, creating a real-time judging interface, and optimizing API routes. Aurora pushed me to constantly learn and improve, ultimately helping me become the developer I am today.
