Brendan Giang

Interdisciplinary Builder, Filmmaker

[MongoDB @MongoDB]

🗣️ Overheard at The Persistent Context Sprint Hackathon at MongoDB.local Build Fest, in partnership with @cerebral_valley, @cursor_ai, @OpenRouter, @ElevenLabs, @FireworksAI_HQ, and @LangChain:

"...anyone with a real problem and a willingness to start can build something that matters."

NYC, your chance is next on Sept. 26th with finalists taking the stage at #MongoDBlocal on Sept. 30. 🗽

Save your spot: https://t.co/DdynWMRhcK

[Brendan Giang @brendangiang]

@MongoDB @b_nezlobin, @IImzihao, and I had such a great time building Amelia, attending Build Fest, and meeting everyone!

Thank you @MentraGlass for lending us glasses to build with! And a special thank you to the incredible team at @MongoDB for putting on such a fantastic event 🙌

[MongoDB @MongoDB]

Congratulations to the winners of the Persistent Context Sprint Hackathon at #MongoDBlocal Build Fest! 🎉

🥇 Amelia: live captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, separates speakers into voiceprints and remembers each person's identity, history, and commitments

🥈 TraceCase: reproduces a bug report across browsers, OS, and devices, then prepares the GitHub PR once the fix is verified

🥉 Perpetual: turns repeated agent routines into new skills, then pushes each one to every connected agent instantly via change streams

Thank you to everyone who built and demoed, and to our partners, @cerebral_valley, for helping make the hackathon possible.

[Boris N @b_nezlobin]

very happy to have won MongoDB's Persistent Sprint Hackathon right before heading off to college! amazing teammates, vibes, food, prizes, free stuff—you know.

also hacked their leaderboard (shoutout my roommate @Tarun__y for getting 2nd); they gave me a Nintendo Switch. awesome!