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Podium — a control room for parallel hackathon submissions
Public Flowstep file link:
https://app.flowstep.ai/file?activeFileId=cc8a3f6e-041a-403e-a03f-025fe94276b3
Description:
Podium is a control room for anyone running more than one hackathon at once. I built it because I was juggling four live challenge deadlines this week — Flowstep, Contra × Squarespace, Envato, Base44 — and kept losing track of which assets I'd already made, which checklist items were done, and how much time I had left on each.
The Dashboard tracks live countdowns and progress across every active challenge. Challenge Detail breaks down each one's actual judging rubric and a submission checklist. The Asset Library keeps reusable brand assets tagged by which challenges have used them, so nothing gets remade from scratch. The Composer drafts the caption and links for the submission itself.
I wired Flowstep into Claude via MCP and used it to make live edits directly to the file rather than working prompt-by-prompt in the UI — several of the refinements in the final build, including the scoring rubric section, were made this way.
It's the tool I wished existed the moment I opened my fourth browser tab this week.
P.S. If you want to try Flowstep yourself: https://link.flowstep.ai/jonathan-mercieca
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