Daegu University's SW-Centered University program opened entry to ‘any enrolled student’.
With vibe coding, you build by describing what you want to an AI, so there was no reason to draw the line at a student's major.
Over two days in Gyeongju from September 17, 13 teams worked through the night and took the stage the next morning with the apps they had built.
The first morning and early afternoon went to vibe coding pre-training and the Jitda tutorial.
From 3pm the teams started building, stopping only for an hour at dinner, and kept going through the night.
From 11am the next day, the 13 teams presented one after another.
A vibe coding lecture by a lead instructor who works as a developer
Learning how to use Jitda
Each team picks a topic and starts building
16 hours of building straight through
13 team presentations · awards announced later
With no theme handed to them, five teams chose apps for Daegu University students.
Finding friends to hang out with international students, booking the futsal pitch, a map for lost items and broken facilities, recruiting teammates for campus events, and a record of university life.
The other teams picked problems they had run into in daily life and in their majors, like finding a restroom, looking up youth policies, and automating circuit design.
These are the projects published to the Jitda gallery after the hackathon.
The grand prize winner, ‘모DU모아’, gathers news about on-campus competitions and helps even students who find it hard to speak up first find teammates to enter with.
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Grand prize
What Daegu University's SW-Centered University program decided was who could enter and the two-day schedule.
Participants were excused from their regular classes and given lodging, meals, and transport.
Jitda sent a lead instructor who works as a developer, along with mentors, to handle training and build support.
No developer tools to install and no servers to set up.
Instead of memorizing and writing code, students describe the features they want to an AI. Even students outside SW-related departments can take part on the same day under the same conditions.
After three hours of pre-training and the Jitda tutorial on day one, teams started building at 3pm. The lecture was given by a lead instructor who works as a developer.
There was no need to install developer tools or rent a server. Even with the overnight venue off campus, building starts as soon as there is internet.
All 13 apps went up on stage at their own address. The program can paste the project links straight into its results report.
Each photo's label includes the time it was taken.
Flip through them in order, from the first morning's pre-training to the group photo on the second afternoon.
Pre-training · Sep 17, 11:16
Building begins · 15:46Overnight build · 20:15
Final touches before presenting · Sep 18, 10:42
Presentation · 11:28
Demo · 12:16
Group photo · 13:23Just tell us the number of participants, the schedule, and whether it is an overnight event, and we will put together a training and on-site support plan.
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