Some hackathons are built like fireworks.

Bright launch. Loud countdown. Forty-eight hours of chaos. A few demos. A few prizes. Then the repo goes quiet, the group chat slowly dies, and everyone moves on.

HackCanton Season 1 was built for a different kind of flame.

Less flash. More heat.

For 21 days, builders, founders, developers, product people, mentors, judges, and ecosystem partners moved through one focused experiment: