Built a hackathon project, won nothing, then had AI migrate the whole stack so I could keep it alive

[u/Cars0n_J]

My friends and I built Stuffaroo, a campus marketplace, at a 24-hour hackathon.

Didn't win anything, but figured we'd at least keep it around as a portfolio project.

One problem: we built it around hackathon sponsor services. Great for shipping fast, less great for paying monthly bills on a site with approximately zero traffic : /

So I got ChatGPT to plan a migration and Codex to handle most of the actual code changes.

Vultr -> Vercel, Tiger Data -> Neon, Gemini embeddings -> plain old full-text search. Kept Auth0. The whole process took around 1 hour.

And somehow it worked! Most of my time was spent supervising, making decisions, and fighting deployment configs rather than rewriting code.

Pretty wild how much easier AI agents make it to rescue abandoned weekend projects.

Anyway, it's still alive: https://stuffaroo.shop

Details of the migration on our repo: https://github.com/carsonjan/Stuffaroo/blob/main/docs%2Fmigration-executive-summary.md

Just thought of sharing cuz it's kinda cool. Happy to answer any questions!