My Hackathon Journey: Building an App from Scratch 🚀

I take you through my in depth hackathon process and everything I do from ideation, coding, debugging, recording and more. Also will share insights on everything I've learned from my previous hackathon wins.

Try v0: https://v0.link/jake-kang
Learn to code! at https://scrimba.com/?via=jakekang
AI Note Taking: https://go.granola.ai/jake-kang

Follow me on X: https://x.com/jakekang
github: https://github.com/jacquekang/yelp-ai-hackathon
How I win hackathons: https://substack.com/home/post/p-176383543

Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - Where to Find Hackathons
01:11 - Coming Up with an Idea
01:48 - My Project Idea
02:22 - How to Execute
02:59 - Parallelize your Workflow
04:02 - Reviewing API Docs
04:24 - Integrating Code
05:19 - Leveraging AI to Code so I can Design
05:40 - Telling a Story for your Project
06:35 - Supabase Integration & Debugging
08:21 - Basic UI Built, More Debugging, How I Fix Bugs
10:19 - Issues with Yelp API Integration
11:03 - How I'm Using v0 to Build UI Components
11:39 - Final Touchups
12:03 - Demo
12:45 - Final Thoughts & Results