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3 months ago

🏆 Ctrl-V Hackathon: The Winners Announced!

Hey Hackers,

What an absolutely wild journey. From when the hackathon kicked off on July 1st at 12:00 AM all the way through the final countdown to the project submission deadline on July 5th at 11:59 PM, you blew our expectations completely out of the water. The sheer amount of caffeine consumed, code deployed, and sleepless ingenuity on display over those intense days was inspiring.

After intense deliberation and reviewing the final submissions across innovation, technical execution, design, usefulness, and pitch quality, the leaderboard is officially locked.

Please join us in celebrating the official winners of the Ctrl-V Hackathon:

🥇 1st Place (Three-Way Tie!)

The competition at the absolute top was too close to call, with three incredible teams matching each other across the board to share the 1st Place crown!

  • Lendr

  • HealthTwin Guardian AI

  • Sparsh Mukthi

🥈 2nd Place

  • RASIP (Resilient Autonomous Swarm Intelligence Platform)

    • Why they won: An incredibly robust decentralized project demonstrating exceptional innovation, technical complexity, and real-world utility.

🥉 3rd Place (Three-Way Tie!)

Our podium is rounded out by three fantastic teams who delivered outstanding, high-quality projects from top to bottom:

  • Oculus IQ

  • Guidely - Your indoor navigation partner

  • Cognure — AI Health Memory Companion

🔮 The Secret Mystery Award: "Work Smarter, Not Harder" Trophy

We kept this one entirely classified until the very end. We wanted to reward the absolute peak of hackathon "laziness" transformed into raw engineering genius—and one team embodied this perfectly.

  • Winner: Voca

  • Why they earned it: At a hackathon dedicated to typing shortcuts and text clipboards, this team decided that pressing keys was simply too much physical effort. Instead of a basic macro tool, they engineered a low-level local microphone bridge, an asynchronous speech-to-text pipeline, and a language-intent token parser from scratch. They built a massive voice intelligence system strictly so they would never have to use their hands to hit Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V again. Brilliant.
👥 Public Vote Update: One More Week to Cast Your Vote!

You might have noticed that we missed announcing the Public Vote Award today—and that is because the race is still wide open! We are giving all participants one more week to check out the projects and vote for their favorites.

To cast your vote, simply head over to Devpost and hit "Like" on the projects that impressed you the most. Show your fellow hackers some love and help determine who takes home the crowd-favorite trophy!

What's Next?

If your team is listed among our main winners above, keep an eye on your inbox later today and the next week —our team will be reaching out directly with details on claiming your prizes and trophies.

To everyone who participated: thank you for making this hackathon an unforgettable experience. Go cast your public votes, get some well-deserved sleep, and keep pushing the boundaries of what a clipboard can do.

Until next time, AKSZ Team