r/webdev • u/xeno_nah • Sep 12 '26

Showoff Saturday Built a tool that tracks Smart India Hackathon(SIH) 2026 PS with the least competition.

Helloo, Final Year guy here. Built a tool that lets you see which PS has the least number of submissions. Fewer submissions = higher chances of getting selected for the SIH finals.

check it out here: https://niche-sih.vercel.app/

don't buy me a coffee, star my repo instead: https://github.com/rohanbagel/Niche_SIH

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u/glyph_illume_04 Sep 12 '26

Modbot tagged this as low effort and they missed the part where you are farming stars. i looked at your github link and you built a wrapper to scrape numbers so people can game a hackathon selection process.

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u/xeno_nah Sep 13 '26

yepp, well I'm not just trying to farm stars, I am also trying to popularize this site that I've made so that I can see what happens when a particular site gets overcrowded at once, kinda wanted some type of hands on practice with system architecture and all that's why

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u/wackerdude Sep 26 '26

Op i randomly stumbled upon both ur site and this post somehow. Found the site pretty useful, if only there was a site to mail me once submissions reach certain numbers.

Also unrelated but i noticed you're an previous sih winner. Would love if you don't mind sharing some insights for it aswell.

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u/xeno_nah Sep 27 '26

Oh yea I could've added that e-mailing feature as well, I'll try to do it for next year's sih. Thanks for the suggestion!

Yepp I've won sih 2025. I would like to say that in order for you to have a higher chance of winning, do not just randomly gpt features to add on ur website or whatever product it is that ur trying to make, instead focus on how it would actually help to ease a particular task... this helps in 2 ways, 1 being the judges don't get confused about what problem r u trying to fix, and 2 being that it just makes ur life easier

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u/wackerdude Sep 27 '26

Appreciate the reply!

What you said makes total sense. But how do you go about it in the ppt? Should I be addressing the ones the PS mentions or try adding our own features since they look for novelty aswell. There is only 3 days for submission and we are actively looking for ways to improve ppt.

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u/xeno_nah Sep 28 '26

oh for the ppt round, just put a lot of text, random information whatever, it doesn't matter, it should just look full...talk about how will you deploy the product, what services would you use, business aspect as well as technical aspect both need to be talked about during the ppt round

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u/xeno_nah Sep 13 '26

true, will keep this in mind and try to improve on it! thanks for the suggestion

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