Memorable 24 hours at HackNSUT!
By: Jatin Kumar
Tags: Coding, Achievement, Fitness, Hackathons, Competition

It has been more than a month since we did what no one would have ever imagined, when we made a very step out of our home. Actually not even us!. Remembering the evening of the March 30th, 2019 still sends shivers down my spine. It was the final of the prestigious Hackathon HackNSUT organised by NSUT. The competition was tough. Teams came from entire North India to participate in the overnight hackathon with their eyes full of dreams, belief and hope of winning the Hackathon. We were also among them. But we always knew that it’s not going to be easy for anyone of us. Many teams despite of having brilliant potential ideas were unfortunately not able to make it to Top 10. Selected Teams were gathered for the result. The environment was so tense and the competition was so high that by the time the result was announced probably no one in our team was left with nails on their fingers. It is a story of turning dream into reality, It is the story of achieving something great in 24 hours.

It is story of Team Enigma — Winners of HackNSUT’19.

Team Enigma — Sejal Bhatia, Sarthak Sadh, Jatin Kumar, Ashish Aggarwal

Dramatic Beginning

Till date we had attended many hackathons in various colleges throughout Delhi. But If I’m being honest the start we got in HackNSUT might be the one of the worst starts we ever got. Like any other team we came prepared with two ideas ~ a main idea and a backup idea. We found our primary idea quite innovative and were really excited about it. But, as we started to implement it, we began to explore loop holes in it, which apparently went unnoticed during the research phase (before hackathon). But we knew that we had ample time and we could fix them comfortably. But as we dug deeper and the number of loop holes also started to increase significantly and project started to make less sense overall. So at this time , we all knew that we had it all messed up and it needs to be replaced. Sadly till the time we realized, we had already wasted a few precious hours on it and guess what, the first evaluation was also just a mere few minutes away. At that instant we were nothing more than a bunch of helpless participants looking at each other with nothing to say. After some minutes of awkward staring, we realized that we were not done yet afterall. We still had something to offer.

Backup Idea - The Saviour

Our backup idea was also a decent one. But the problem was that we had not done any sort of research on it till yet and were not sure whether it can be implemented in given time frame or not. And let me please tell you, that in a hackathon implementation of an idea holds a real great importance. It might not matter how awesome your idea is, if it’s practical feasibility is in doubt.

Alright! Now what was the Idea ?

So the idea was to build an easily accessible application having every potential to turn your outdoor gym reluctant. In a nutshell we aimed to bring an artificial gym trainer in your mobile, so that you as a user can have an experience of a gym even when you are not at home or for some reason are not able to go to the gym. Due to the shortage of time, we could only train the application for one exercise as training ML models takes time. However in future we aim to expand the app even more, But for the time being it remains as it is. If you want, you can even see the final project live here.

Problems that it solved -

Busy people tend to have a hectic lifestyle and they do not have a fixed time routine to exercise. Due to which in the most cases they just pass on it and sometimes as a consequence may suffer from health related problems like obesity. But this app can help them solving this issue by giving them a possibility to exercise anytime they want completely as per thier will. When a gym goer is unable to go to gym due to any understandable purpose like business trip, marriage etc. Their exercise routine kinda breaks and which is not a nice thing to happen. But in case he has our app he has nothing to worry about. He just need to find some time for exercise and then open our app in order to take advantage of the personal gym trainer feature. Problem Solved! Some people who might be shy or don’t feel safe going to gym, can do the same exercises staying at home using our application. Many more…

This app has endless use cases and it’s integration with other apps might expand the horizon even more. So if I’ll continue to talk about the problem’s it cam solve, we might not be able to talk about anything else. Which I surely would not wish to happen.

So how does it works ?

Let’s explore the app working through a diagrammatic representation.