The first thought that came to mind when I saw the post was — why not build something fun? 😄
We love food. ❤️
So why not build something useless enough… but fun enough? 😂
Egg puffs! Something we absolutely love eating. 🤤
But here's the catch — for every egg puff you eat, you only get half an egg. 🥚➗2
Where does the other half go? 🤔
To some stranger… somewhere. 👀
And the funniest part? We both share a single egg without even knowing it. 😂
So we thought…
Why not build something that connects these two people? 🫂
And then came the obvious question… HOW?! 😵💫
Brainstorming mode: ON. 🧠💡
Then came the idea 💡:
What if we put an ice cream stick with a unique code on every egg puff? 🍦🥚
Each code would have a pair, and the stick would be placed on the puff while it was being made.
So somewhere out there, another person would have the other half of your egg. 👀
And just like that… Eggmates was born. 🥚❤️
Reached the venue at 5:00. 🎒💻
The excitement was real.
The nervousness? Also real. 😅
We had absolutely no idea how the next few hours were going to go.
The inauguration ceremony began.
Okay… officially, the hackathon had started. 🚀
Introduction session.
Guidelines.
Reading the handbook.
Trying to understand what exactly we had signed up for. 😂
At this point, we were still calm. We had time. 😌
Or so we thought. 💀
Time to turn our crazy eggpuff idea into an actual project.
We tried to come up with a concise idea for the project and started learning about GitHub.
Lots of tabs.
Lots of confusion.
Lots of "wait, how does this work?" moments. 😵💫
Alright.
Let's build this thing. 😤🔥
We started working with Claude.
Yep.
Already.
Claude said: "That's enough for today." 😭
Fine.
Switching to Codex. 🤝
We decided to use Supabase as our database.
Stuck.
Completely stuck.
The Supabase connection was not cooperating. 🫠
We kept iterating… and iterating… and iterating…
Slowly losing our minds. 🧠💥
At this point, the project was less "building a startup" and more "trying to survive." 😂
Okay.
Enough debugging. FOOD BREAK! 🙌
Biryani was nice. 🤌🔥
Also met some amazing people along the way. ❤️
That little break definitely helped.
Okay.
New strategy.
Drop everything. Start from scratch.
Let's try Antigravity. 🚀
Motivation suddenly went 📈📈📈
"We WILL make this work." 😤🔥
…
Still stuck.
Nothing much to show yet.
And that feeling? Eating us alive. 🫠
We had spent hours working, but looking at the project, it felt like we had barely moved.
Maybe music will save us. 🎧😂
At this point, we started planning for the worst.
If nothing works, we'll at least show a static page.
Not ideal. But better than showing nothing. 😭
Now we were multitasking between:
Honestly… Probably not our best decision. 😂
Antigravity was busy asking permission after permission after permission. 🙃
But we weren't giving up on Supabase.
Meanwhile, the static page was being built in parallel.
Plan A, B, C, D… everything was running simultaneously. 😭
Finally realised…
Multitasking was NOT working.
Okay.
One last attempt.
Let's give Supabase until 12:00.
If it doesn't work… we move on. 😤
SUCCESS.
index.html finally ran. 🥹
I honestly can't explain the feeling.
After hours of being stuck… seeing that page actually run gave us the biggest sense of achievement.
Happiest moment of the past week. 🥹❤️
No time to celebrate though.
Before making any more changes, we pushed the code.
Then…
Deployment successful! 🎉
And the best part?
We could open the website from our phones. 📱🔥
GitHub Pages came through. 🙌
For the first time that night… it actually felt like we were building something. 🥹
We explored some other cool projects.
Then started thinking…
"What else can we add?"
Suddenly we wanted:
Because apparently, getting the basic version working wasn't enough. 😂
Again.
Of course.
Time to switch accounts.
We are back. 😭😂
Codex wasn't really understanding what we wanted.
So we had to explain.
Then explain again.
Then explain it differently.
Then…
explain it like we're explaining it to a five-year-old. 😂
We explained the whole idea to ChatGPT and asked it to create a prompt for Codex.
And…
this was kind of working! 😭🔥
No more experimenting.
No more unnecessary features.
WE NEED TO SHIP. 🚨
Okay.
Deep breath.
Let's do this. 😤
Changes were happening.
The website was improving.
We added:
For the first time, it actually started feeling like a real project rather than a collection of broken ideas. 🥹
FINALLY.
The final code was pushed to GitHub. 🚀
That feeling of relief…
UFF. 😮💨
Hours of debugging.
Countless iterations.
Multiple AI tools.
Supabase fighting us every step of the way. 😂
But we made it.
Now…
Setting up the README.
Learning GitHub along the way.
Still thinking…
"This GitHub thing is way too hard." 😭
But slowly…
getting the hang of it. 😎
Camera ready.
Website ready.
Everything ready.
And…
SINGLE SHOT SUCCESSFUL. 🎯🔥
No retakes.
No crashes.
No last-minute disasters.
Just…
What started as a random thought about egg puffs turned into a crazy night of brainstorming, debugging, learning, failing, restarting, eating biryani, meeting amazing people, arguing with AI, fighting Supabase, and somehow…
building something that actually worked. 😂🔥
We came in with an idea.
We got stuck more times than we can count.
We almost gave up.
We started from scratch.
And somehow, at 11:56 PM,
that tiny index.html file running
felt like the biggest victory ever. 🥹
It wasn't perfect.
But it was ours. ❤️
And somewhere out there… maybe two strangers are now connected by the other half of an egg. 🥚🫂