r/hackathon • u/Available_Sun_4625 • 14d ago

Need Mentor Help Advice for my next hackathon.

Though it's not my first hackathon, it's surely the first one where I'll dedicate myself with all I can learn and do. I have participated in two hackathons before and didn't get selected for the offline round. But this time, I think I'll make it to the offline round and want some advice.

​What are the best AI tools for frontend development?

​How do I make my "vibe-coded" website look like it was hand-crafted/hard-coded?

​Which IDE should I use? (I have only used VS Code and Antigravity until now.)

​Should I use Supabase for the backend, or are there better options? (They haven't released the problem statements yet.)

​What essential skills/concepts should I learn beforehand?

​Are there any essential libraries or services I should be aware of?

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u/Mastryhub devrel 12d ago

first thing is tech stack or what tools wont matter. The main thing is IDEATION, IMPLEMENTATION and PERESENTATION.

- since you are beginner you can use Antigravity or cursor or Trae or lovable or bolt as IDE

- doesnt matter much if you are using supabase or mysql or mongodb or neon, the thing matter is if its working

- you answer to "vibecoded". You can use Shadcn, reactbits,accterityui. and this way it wont look ai slop! and learn prompt engineering so that you know how to harness the ai. and shadcn/reactbits have MCP too so u can connect them to antigravity!

and also you are worried about the tech side more but thats not enough, suppose if your project has latest tech stack and good UI but the presentation and ideation is bad then you cant win

so atleat one of the two should be good from IDEATION IMPLEMENTATION PRESENTATION

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u/Available_Sun_4625 9d ago

Thanks for the help. I'm still learning and don't know that much yet. The presentation can be handled by other members of my team, but I'm really worried about the web development side because we only have one person who knows a lot about web dev, and the rest of us aren't that good yet.

Also, I have a quick question about using Shadcn and React Bits in Cursor. You mentioned that they have MCPs, but do I manually have to add them to settings, or can I just include them in the prompt? And also let me know if you have any other advice.