Hacker Studio

Hacker Studio is a project I created with my college friend, Aaron, for the Devpost Hacklarious 2020 Hackathon. The goal of the hackathon was to “take a break from serious projects and build something silly,” so we decided to create a web-based VS Code clone that would help overworked developers look busy when their boss was around. Users could choose a GitHub repository, and as they typed gibberish in the UI, the editor would populate with real code from the selected repo. This way, developers could appear to be working even when they weren’t doing anything.

I led the frontend development, building the UI with React and Tailwind. Aaron handled the backend, using Netlify functions to connect to a MongoDB Atlas instance, which stored references to the GitHub repositories used to populate the code editor.

Despite having just one day to build the project, we won 1st place in the “Best Use of MongoDB Atlas” category!