40 students from any major built 13 apps in one night

Overview

Open to every major, two days and one night of building

Daegu University's SW-Centered University program held a two-day, one-night vibe coding hackathon in Gyeongju from Thursday, September 17 to Friday, September 18, 2026. 40 Daegu University students took part in 13 teams, and a lead instructor who works as a developer and mentors from Bana handled the training and build support.

Pre-training and the Bana tutorial began at 11 AM on the first day, and teams started building apps on topics of their own choosing at 3 PM. After dinner, the overnight build ran until 11 AM the next day, and the 13 teams then presented one after another.

The apps from all 13 teams were published to the Bana gallery. The grand prize went to ‘모DU모아’, which gathers on-campus competition news and helps students find teammates, and topics differed from team to team, from exchange between Korean and international students and futsal court booking to youth policy search and circuit design.

Host: Daegu University SW-Centered University program
Date: Thursday, September 17 to Friday, September 18, 2026 · two days, one night
Participants: 40 Daegu University students in 13 teams · any major
Format: Overnight in Gyeongju · pre-training, then team builds and presentations
Topic: Free choice for each team
Run by: Bana training and on-site build support

Schedule

Open theme · chosen by each team

Building started at 3pm
and ran until 11am the next day.

The first morning and early afternoon went to vibe coding pre-training and the Bana tutorial.
From 3pm the teams started building, stopping only for an hour at dinner, and kept going through the night.
From 11am the next day, the 13 teams presented one after another.

Sep 17, 11:00–12:00

Pre-training

A vibe coding lecture by a lead instructor who works as a developer

12:00–13:00

Lunch

13:00–15:00

Pre-training · Bana tutorial

Learning how to use Bana

15:00–18:00

Hackathon begins

Each team picks a topic and starts building

18:00–19:00

Dinner

19:00 → Sep 18, 11:00

Overnight build

16 hours of building straight through

Sep 18, 11:00–12:00

Presentations · judging

13 team presentations · awards announced later

The theme of this hackathon

“An open theme, starting from everyday annoyances”

With no theme handed to them, five teams chose apps for Daegu University students.
Finding friends to hang out with international students, booking the futsal pitch, a map for lost items and broken facilities, recruiting teammates for campus events, and a record of university life.
The other teams picked problems they had run into in daily life and in their majors, like finding a restroom, looking up youth policies, and automating circuit design.

What two days built

Turning problems around you into apps · building by talking with AI · teamwork · presenting

Student work

Of the 13 apps, the grand prize went to
an app that finds you teammates.

These are the projects published to the Bana gallery after the hackathon.
The grand prize winner, ‘모DU모아’, gathers news about on-campus competitions and helps even students who find it hard to speak up first find teammates to enter with.
Click a card to see the real screen up close.

Grand prize

모DU모아

3 students

두레이더 DU Radar

3 students

마카(MAKA)

3 students

TRIPACE

3 students

우리동네 SOS

3 students

정책 체크레이

3 students

급해요 화장실

3 students

CircuitForge

3 students

대동여지도

3 students

클립보드 협업 도구

4 students

카메라 아이디어 발상

3 students

DUWith

3 students

공차자 DU루와

3 students

To run one at a university

Any major,
the same starting line.

What Daegu University's SW-Centered University program decided was who could enter and the two-day schedule.
Participants were excused from their regular classes and given lodging, meals, and transport.
Bana sent a lead instructor who works as a developer, along with mentors, to handle training and build support.
No developer tools to install and no servers to set up.

Recruiting from every department

Instead of memorizing and writing code, students describe the features they want to an AI. Even students outside SW-related departments can take part on the same day under the same conditions.

Three hours of training, then straight to building

After three hours of pre-training and the Bana tutorial on day one, teams started building at 3pm. The lecture was given by a lead instructor who works as a developer.

Just a laptop and a browser

There was no need to install developer tools or rent a server. Even with the overnight venue off campus, building starts as soon as there is internet.

Every app gets its own address

All 13 apps went up on stage at their own address. The program can paste the project links straight into its results report.

On the day

September 17 to 18,
two days in Gyeongju

Each photo's label includes the time it was taken.
Flip through them in order, from the first morning's pre-training to the group photo on the second afternoon.

A lead instructor who works as a developer explains example websites you can build with vibe coding from beside the stage, while participants listen with laptops open

Pre-training · Sep 17, 11:16

A participant with hands on the keyboard building the team's app, with teammates beside them each looking at their own screen

Building begins · 15:46

Participants still working on laptops in the venue after 8pm

Overnight build · 20:15

The morning before the presentations, participants making final fixes in the venue while one person stands and helps a team

Final touches before presenting · Sep 18, 10:42

A team of three presenting a map-based app on the big screen on stage

Presentation · 11:28

A presenter holding a microphone demos the region selection screen of TRIPACE, a travel itinerary matching app

Demo · 12:16

A group photo of participants and staff in front of the vibe coding hackathon banner

Group photo · 13:23

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about this case

How did the Daegu University vibe coding hackathon run?

On September 17, pre-training by a lead instructor who works as a developer and the Bana tutorial began at 11 AM. Teams started building at 3 PM and kept going through the night apart from a one-hour dinner break, and from 11 AM on September 18 the 13 teams presented one after another.

Can students from other majors, or students new to vibe coding, take part?

Any enrolled Daegu University student could join, and students outside SW-related departments took part on the same terms. Because you describe the features you want to the AI, teams moved straight into building after three hours of pre-training and the tutorial.

What kinds of apps did participants build?

No topic was assigned, so each team picked a problem from daily life or its own major. The 13 apps include the grand prize winner 모DU모아, the campus pin map 두레이더 DU Radar, the exchange app 마카(MAKA) for Korean and international students, the travel companion planner TRIPACE, the youth policy comparison tool 정책 체크레이, and the circuit design tool CircuitForge. You can browse them in the works list on this page.

What does a university need to prepare?

Deciding who can take part and the schedule. At this event, the program covered class substitution, lodging, meals, and transport for participants, and Bana handled training and build support. No developer tools to install and no servers to set up. To hold a hackathon at your university, contact us through the form at the bottom of this page.

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Daegu University Vibe Coding Hackathon40 students
from any major
built 13 apps
in one night.

Open to every major, two days and one night of building