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We all remember this game.
No tutorials.
No onboarding.
No notifications.
Just one objective: keep moving.
Funny how some businesses still operate the same wayreacting instead of planning.
Good design isn't just about making things look modern. It's about making progress feel effortless.
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I built the product my team and I actually needed: Contestify 🏆
I'm active in a community of contest hunters — we're always chasing the next hackathon, design contest, meme battle, or AI video challenge. But every contest lives somewhere different: Devpost, Contra, Superteam, Lablab ai, social media. Keeping track across all of them, as a team, was chaos.
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