These are the notes we leave behind after hard weeks, broken builds, lucky recoveries, and the kind of progress you only trust because you earned it. No performance. Just the truth of building.
The ones we keep at the top. Because they actually matter.
Twelve services. Three teams. Zero velocity. Here's why we merged everything back into a single deployable and how it cut our delivery time by 60%.
No response. No feedback. No prize pool distribution. We built Tavarn.AI regardless. This is the story of what happens when hackathons prioritize hype over builders.