Inspiration

After escaping our gated community (prison) the night before the competition and arriving early the day of, we not able to check-in due to the building being at "maximum capacity". Since we pre-registered for the event weeks in advance and drove hours the night before, this experience inspired us to create a website for next year's HackCU. We then migrated to the nearest Starbucks and worked for the next 6 hours until doors opened again at 6 pm.

What it does

This website allows users to register for the 2021 HackCU competition and ensures that those who register are guaranteed a spot at HackCU, because it decrements the number of available registration spots each time a competitor registers. It then populates a database with the user's name, email, etc.. The website also notifies the user that registration is a first come, first serve basis.

How we built it

  • This project was built completely using command line text editors and geeks for geeks

Challenges we ran into

  • Using Starbucks' wifi for 6 hours
  • doman.com's customer service (our domain still hasn't propagated)

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • making a sql statement that runs
  • removing 100% of the vulnerabilities associated with Windows XP.

What we learned

  • Arrive to HackCU 2 hours earlier next year.
  • mysql and php

What's next for HackCU2021

  • hackcu2022.org

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