It was... decent. The vibe was cool, location was great, swag was solid, food was good, side events were fun. Overall a pretty good day, just with some clarity issues around the actual hacking part.
Credits (API keys and stuff) weren't given until around 1PM, and we started at 11ish AM, so that was a bit of a slow start. The deadline also kept shifting a bit — first 6:30PM, then 5:30PM, and then it turned out that was the event end time, not the submission deadline. Actual hacking ended at 2:30PM 💀, so we had around 3.5 hours of hacking time. Would've been nice to know that upfront, but honestly these things happen at smaller events.
The submission process was a bit unconventional too — they used Slido (a live polls/forms thing), so there was no way for them to see your GitHub repo from the submission. I told the other hackers about it but forgot to loop in the organizers. On me for that one, but also would've been nice if they'd have just used Devfolio beforehand (shameless plug).
Despite all that, we shipped Codex Swarm, a DAG-based parallel Codex CLI orchestrator with Docker-sandboxed agents and a live neobrutalist dashboard. Pretty happy with what we got done given the actual hacking window!