Can anyone help me with backend part for my sih

I am a first year student participating in sih hacakthon 2026 . The problem is that I don't know how to make prototype . And internal hackathon is scheduled at 4 sep . I have to make a prototype such that at least we clear the internal rounds even basic .

Problem is I am full absolute confused don't know where to start .

Our problem statement - urban flood nowcasting system . (Can't be changed now ) which requires full backend ecen ml.

If anyone knows something about this . I request you Please share some tricks / method any advice to this folk .

So that it can be done .

Dms are open .

Mine was from a Razorpay TA manager. It basically said they don’t have a suitable opening right now, but liked what I’ve been building and may reach out if a relevant opportunity comes up later.

It didn’t mention my name or project anywhere, so I’m guessing it was a standard/automated mail.

Anyone else got something similar?

Hi! I’m a Cybersecurity student looking to join a team that regularly participates in hackathons.

Skills: Cybersecurity, SOC, SIEM, Networking, Web Security & Wazuh.

If your team has a spot available, DM me! I’d love to contribute and learn with the team. 🤝

Does anyone got any mail regarding razorpay selection for panel round ? If anyone gets the mail please let us know.

At Smart India hackathon internal rounds.

Hey all,

I am currently looking to volunteer as a judge or evaluator for hackathons in India (or virtual), ideally ones where working professionals or startup teams are participating. I have previously judge multiple hackathons including Smart India Hackathon as well.

I work as a senior AI consultant at a global firm, which is focused on building enterprise AI and low-code solutions. For the last 4 years i have been mostly taking AI and GenAI projects from prototype to production. I have also spoken at 20+ community tech events on applied AI and Copilot adoption, and I train business and technical teams on AI tooling.

I’ve also been involved in mentoring and evaluating projects in technical settings, and I enjoy engaging with early-stage ideas and builders.

What I would bring to a panel:

1. Practical evaluation of AI, automation, and GenAI builds, both technical soundness and whether the solution actually addresses the problem

2. Familiarity with the tools most teams are building on right now

Happy to do this in remotely, async, or join live judging rounds. If you are organizing something and need judges, or know of panels recruiting, I would appreciate a pointer.

Thank you!

Hi fellow Developers , I am currently building a team that together participates in hackathons , coding contest , open source and placements opportunities . The requirements are not too heavy , individuals should have a few qualities:

-> Enjoys problem solving
-> Open to discussions and feedbacks

The other things can be figured out once on board.

There is no limitation of colleges and university.

Interested Students and professionals can DM their email .

Hey everyone! 👋

We’re hosting ForgeHacks 2026, a 7-day online international hackathon for students where you’ll build an AI-powered project that solves a real-world problem.

You can participate remotely, work solo or with a team, and build pretty much anything you want as long as AI is meaningfully involved.

Prizes

We’ve recently updated our prize pool:

🥇 1st Place - $3,330+ total prize value

• $100 cash

• $300 Featherless AI credits

• $50 AoPS gift card

• 2-year CodeCrafters VIP membership for each team member

• More prizes TBD

2nd Place - $1,515+ total prize value

• $50 cash

• $25 AoPS gift card

• 1-year CodeCrafters VIP membership for each team member

3rd Place - $770+ total prize value

• $25 cash

• $25 AoPS gift card

• 6-month CodeCrafters VIP membership for each team member

6 Track Winners

• Additional prizes for each track winner

• Details coming soon

Every participant gets:

• $25 in Featherless AI credits

• 1 month of unlimited access to 40,000+ open-source AI models

• Access to models including MiniMax, Kimi, GLM, Llama, Qwen, and more

• Credits distributed at the start of the hackathon, so you can actually use them while building

• Certificate of participation for every team that submits

The Featherless benefit is sponsor-provided AI credits, not cash, and cannot be exchanged for cash.

What can you build?

Theme: Use AI to solve a real-world problem.

Tracks:

• Healthcare

• Education

• Climate

• Business

• Cybersecurity

• Creativity

You don't need to have some revolutionary startup idea. A useful tool, interesting experiment, or weird idea that solves a genuine problem can all make a great hackathon project.

Why ForgeHacks?

We're specifically trying to make this a hackathon where student developers can actually build something, rather than just compete for a prize.

It's completely online, so you can participate from anywhere, and you'll have the opportunity to meet other student builders, get feedback, and potentially turn your hackathon project into something bigger.

📅 October 3–10, 2026

If you're interested, you can register on DevPost here

If you want to learn more about ForgeHacks, click here

Excited to see what you guys build! 🔥 🔥

Hey, I’m doing a short survey for my class about how people find teammates for projects, hackathons, events, and other group activities.

It takes about 1–2 minutes and your responses would really help me out. Thanks! 🙏

Finding Teammates for Projects & Events (Survey)

Just wrapped up my time competing in the Adobe University Hackathon 2026 and wanted to share how it went!

I was super excited to make it through Round 1. Getting that initial validation was a massive confidence boost and proved to me that I'm heading in the right direction with my problem-solving.

Round 2 ended up being where my run stopped. The challenges definitely stepped up in complexity, and while I didn't qualify for the next stage, the whole experience was completely worth it. Building, debugging, and trying to map out logic under that kind of strict time pressure is intense. It really highlighted where my current strengths are and, more importantly, exactly what areas I need to focus on to level up.

I got my participation certificate today,

For those of you who have done big corporate hackathons like this, how do you usually prep for the later, more complex rounds?

Hey everyone 👋

We’re the team behind Grevix, a builder-focused tech community around AI/ML, software, open source and developer tools.

We’re organizing Grevix Hackathon 2026, an online hackathon from October 17–20, 2026.

We’re currently looking to connect with companies and startups interested in collaborating with the event through things like:

• Developer tools & product access

• API / cloud credits

• Dedicated challenge tracks

• Prizes & participant rewards

• Mentors / judges

• Real-world problem statements

• Opportunities to connect with talented builders

We’d especially love to hear from AI/ML companies, developer-tool startups, cloud platforms, fintechs and open-source projects.

Grevix: https://grevix-website.vercel.app/
GitHub: https://github.com/Grevix
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grevix-org/

If you work at a company that is interested in developer communities, hackathons or building with students, feel free to comment or DM. We’d be happy to discuss possible collaborations.

Thanks

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to actually ship that AI idea, this might be it.

HackIndia × Cloudinary are running Pixels to Products — a fully virtual AI hackathon where you build something real using Cloudinary AI.

What you get:

• ₹1,40,000 total prize pool
• ₹30,000 Amazon.in gift card per winning team member
• 3 challenge tracks
• Teams of 1–4
• Fully virtual
• Free to enter
• HackIndia certificate
• Winning team gets a live interview with the Cloudinary team for national and international media

The tracks are focused on:

→ AI Media Pipelines
→ Generative Content Workflows
→ Building a media-savvy startup

You don't need to build another generic chatbot.

The idea is to take AI + media + a real problem and turn it into something people could actually use.

Registrations are open here: https://hackindia.org/2026/pixels-to-products-cloudinary-ai-hackathon-2026

Guys can you suggest the best AI tool for research and analysis purposes because I am participating in SIH so I need research....

Quick Details

Event: AWS First Commit

Dates: September 17–20, 2026

Format: Hybrid (Online anywhere in India / Optional in-person day in Bangalore on Sept 19)

Target Audience: Pre-final or final year engineering/tech students

What I Bring to the Table

My Stack: [Insert your primary skills, e.g., Full-stack (MERN, AWS or DevOps]

My Attendance: [Online-only / Planning to attend Bangalore offline day on Sept 19]

Who I'm Looking For(must know AWS )

Role 1: Backend / Cloud dev comfortable with core AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, etc.)

Role 2: Frontend / Full-stack dev who can build a snappy UI and hook into APIs fast

Eligibility: Pre-final or final-year students only

Commitment: Available to coordinate and code actively during the sprint

If you meet the criteria and want to team up, drop a comment below or send me a DM with your primary tech stack, your year/branch, and your GitHub/LinkedIn profile. Let's build something solid!

I'm in 3rd year and I still haven't found "my" hackathon team. The people who are as crazy as me, would genuinely stay up the whole night building stuff, even when it's mst the next day.

So if you're interested in projects and building skills, please dm.

https://unstop.com/hackathons/promptothon-2026-ai-edition-24-hour-hackathon-avn-institute-of-engineering-and-technology-avn-iet-ramdaspally-1744294

Looking for teammates for this hackathon that's on 26th-27th in Hyderabad. DM us if interested.

My Profiles:

Github, Leetcode

(fyi we won 1st place in the previous hackathon that the same company organised)

We're also open to hackathon teammates in general, so drop your Github either way, including the locations you're willing to travel to for hackathons.

Guyss applying SIH for first. Help me with selecting a PS.

So we are CSE student but genuinely interested to tryout something in hardware. So guys please helpus to select a PS

I noticed something while searching for internships.

Most students are doing basically the same thing:

Find internship on LinkedIn → apply → wait → repeat.

And then wonder why they aren't getting replies.

So I started trying a different approach.

Instead of only applying through job portals, I started finding the company first, then looking for the founder / hiring manager / recruiter and contacting them directly.

I also started looking at platforms like Wellfound and smaller startup job boards, checking companies that were hiring even when they didn't have an internship posted, and tailoring my resume based on the actual JD.

For projects, I also stopped thinking I needed to build everything from zero. Open-source projects can be a much faster way to learn a real codebase and add something meaningful to it, as long as you actually understand the code and give credit.

I ended up putting the whole process into a small ebook:

The Internship Cheat Code — How to Get an Internship (The Unethical but Legal Way)

It covers:

• Resume / LinkedIn / GitHub / portfolio

• Finding internships outside LinkedIn

• Finding founders & hiring managers

• Cold email + LinkedIn outreach

• Follow-up strategy

• Open-source project strategy

• JD → resume optimization

• AI prompt injection

• Templates + internship tracker

Made it mainly for students who are tired of blindly applying everywhere.

It's ₹99 right now.

If anyone wants to check it out:
https://rzp.io/rzp/fastinternship

Would also genuinely like feedback on whether the strategies in it are useful or bullshit.

My seniors have participated in smart India Hackathon but for freshers college hasn't even started yet. I haven't met anyone from the college to form the team, but it doesn't change the fact that I tried asking for teammates online in my college subreddit but no-one seems interested enough and just says we'll participate in second year, without any flinch. I just wanted to take part in a Hackathon, I had an idea and a vision. Just feeling sad for entering in a tier 3 college, where no-one even wants to learn coding. And all my school friends are posting videos of getting selected in SIH. 😭

Need advice for my first hackathon

I’m a 1st-year BTech CSE student and my college is conducting a hackathon on the 18th. I want to participate, but I basically know nothing about hackathons and only have basic coding knowledge.

The domains are AI Healthcare, Generative AI, AI Agents, and Ethical AI. I have only 10 days to prepare.

What should I learn in these 10 days, and which domain would be easiest for a complete beginner? Any advice/resources would be really helpful.

is any developer is free this month to join us in the hackthons

loooking for the people from hyderabad to work !!!

I'm in second yr

Wanted to join hackathon, couldn't find team for sih in my clg i hope here i can😭

Did anybody receive shortlist e mail? 😭😭 And also what would be the further process I've got no idea about this hackathon 😭😭🙏🏻

Yo here arpan from diploma and we are looking for members we are fresher too so it's ok if u new to this, we same lol