I Built a Hackathon Organizer in 5 Minutes Using AI — No Backend Code Required

Hackathon season is here and you've volunteered to organize one. Now you need a system to track events, teams, participants, submissions, judges, and scores. You could spend a week building it. Or you could describe it to an AI, paste some JSON, and have a production app running in five minutes. I chose five minutes. Here's how. What We're Building Hackathon HQ — a complete hackathon management platform with six interconnected collections: Events — hackathon details, dates, tracks, and banner images Participants — hackers with skills, experience level, GitHub handle, and T-shirt size Teams — linked to an event, with multi-select member assignment Submissions — projects linked to teams and events, with demo URLs, screenshots, and status tracking (Draft through Winner) Judges — assigned to events, with expertise areas and bios Scores — judges rate submissions on innovation, execution, impact, and presentation An event's detail page shows its teams, submissions (with "Winners" and "Finali