From an Abandoned Hackathon Project to an AI Study Workspace 🚀

This is a development diary entry about picking up a dormant hackathon project and shipping it into something usable — specifically an AI-assisted study workspace. The arc covers the false starts, the feature trimming, and the eventual focus. As a piece of writing it is honest about the messiness of that process, which makes it more readable than the average launch post. As a resource for builders, it is limited: the product itself is described but not deeply examined, the technical decisions get passing mentions rather than analysis, and there is no pricing or access link that would let a reader evaluate it directly. The value here is in the meta-layer — the pattern of scoping down a sprawling hackathon idea into something shippable. If you are sitting on an abandoned project folder yourself, that framing might be worth ten minutes. -> Best for: indie hacker stuck on a stalled side project