UNIT.HACK 2025

About a month ago, a friend messaged me with an invitation to participate in one of the hackathons taking place at the time, but I declined, saying I wasn't interested. After a while, and following a couple of his messages describing the case study and the hackathon atmosphere, I even regretted not taking part.

I started looking into upcoming hackathons and stumbled upon UNIT.HACK. It's the largest inter-university hackathon for students. It was organized by UNIT, the first inter-university IT association in the Urals (all the guys there are awesome - a special shout-out to them).

There were four case studies from the following companies: Ochen Interesno, Kontur, Naumen, and Targem Games. I chose the case study from Naumen, which required creating an "Organizer in Your Pocket" - specifically, developing a bot or app that would serve as a universal tool for communication between conference participants and organizers.

I registered the two-person team "Vibe & Bug", attended the opening, where we were given a QR code with details about the selected case.

That was followed by two days of coding, which resulted in the ConMS Summit conference management engine. You can view the source code on GitHub. It runs on local storage, but in terms of the actual implementation and database intergration, you'll need a standard relational database like PostgreSQL, and then all that's left is to connect it to the website.

There were many good projects at the end of the competition, but in the end, our team took 2nd place out of 19 teams on this case study. I'd say it was an interesting experience, and I'll definetely do it again.