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most college fests don't make it to edition 3. hackCBS is at 8. same college. same ethos. different students running it every time, which is actually the harder part to pull off. something's working!

what to bring to hackCBS: laptop. charger. student ID. that's genuinely it. no fancy setup. no expensive hardware. the kid who wins is not the one with the best gear, it's the one with the clearest idea and the stubbornness to see it through.

eligibility for hackCBS: - be a student - want to build something that's the whole list. doesn't matter what college, what country, what year you're in. if you have a student ID and an idea, you're in.

hackCBS team size: 2 to 4 people. sounds like a small detail. it's not. 5 member teams have passengers. solo hackers burn out by hour 20. 2-4 is the sweet spot where everyone's actually building something. we've seen it across 8 editions. the rule exists for a reason.

something about hackCBS that doesn't get said enough: the people running it are also students. same colleges, same deadlines, same chaos. no event management company. no full-time staff. just a crew doing this alongside their own sem exams. pretty inspiring & insane.

Got a dm asking if hackCBS is "only for experienced devs" it's not. not even close. we have mentors on the floor the entire time specifically for this. first hackathon is honestly the best time to come. nobody expects you to have it figured out. that's the point.

Your next job is probably in one of these spaces: AI. Web3. FinTech. HealthTech. IoT. EdTech. Cloud. those are also exactly the themes at hackCBS 8.0. not a coincidence.

hackCBS is free to attend not "free with a catch" not "free but pay for food". just free. $220,000 in benefits go to participants cash prizes, tool credits, licenses, the whole thing. students shouldn't have to pay to prove they can build. that's been the stance since day one

there's a specific moment at every hackathon. it's like 2am. your idea has changed 3 times. someone you met 14 hours ago is debugging your code. and somehow it's the most locked-in you've felt in months. that's the hackCBS experience. can't really explain it better than that.

you don't need to be a "10x dev" to show up at hackCBS. you just need to want to build something. that's literally it.

india's largest student-run hackathon. run BY students, FOR students. no gatekeeping, no fees, just building. that's hackCBS.

Congratulations man! Very well deserved, cheers!!!

I got my first prize money($25), after winning HackCBS 8.0 Hackathon. Thanks @pulkitlather for organizing great hackathon.

My 2025 recap: January: > Went to Mumbai for the Level > SuperMind National Hackathon. > Won 2nd place among 23,000 participants. February and March: > Won a track winner title at SVIET Hackathon. > Worked with a Saudi company to build and ship a commercial app. April: > Joined Stack Wealth (YC S21) as a Flutter intern and worked with @archiexzzz > Spent thousands on building a hardware Robowar car (worth it). > Realised I love hardware as much as software. May, June and July: > Made and released my own UI library. > Interned at Annam AI (IIT Ropar). > Released fernkit.in and co-founded @OpenLearn_NITJ with @VatsalKhanna55 > Visited Vaishno Devi. > Started lifting heavy weights (the best decision of the year). August: > Piloted a Mess ERP. > Watching 500 users rely on my code daily was a different kind of rush. > A lot of research work and reading papers September, October, November: > Co-organized a hackathon at Thapar. > Turned 18 and bought my own MacBook Pro. > Started as an EIR at IIT Ropar. > Presented to a Govt. delegation from GOI and MeitY. > Attended 2 Web3 hackathons. > Won 2 tracks (1st place) at HackCBS 8 in Delhi. > Raged at the Seedhe Maut (SMX) concert in Chandigarh. December: > Paragliding in Bir Billing and a road trip to Himachal. > Bought myself an iPhone 17. > Joined Zenbase Singapore as Founding DevOps Engineer. > Closed a 6 figure deal > Teaching a 14-day flutter bootcamp at GDGC to 30 people. > Hit 1800 followers on X. > Authored 10 blogs. > Done with 3 semesters (8 CGPA). Happy new year everyone! See you next year!

Congrats 🥳🥳, paise bhej dena thoda

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