We built LaunchPad-AI for the All Things Agentic Hackathon, a challenge presented by Google to build autonomous agents that run in the background and do real work, not just chat. This is the story of what we built and how the Google Cloud stack shaped it.
The friction we actually had
Every developer knows this one. You ship a project, feel great for a day, and then your portfolio site and your LinkedIn stay frozen in the past. Ours were months out of date. The work was done but it never made it to the places people actually look.
The annoying part isn't writing one post. It's the decision every single time: is this release even worth showing? Is it a real new project, or a follow-up to something already featured? Is it a dependency bump nobody cares about? That judgment is what we never wanted to make manually again, and the hackathon's "bring your own friction" framing pushed us to build an agent around exactly that personal friction that we as computer science students faced in our daily life.
So we built LaunchPad-AI: you publish a GitHub release, and the agent decides on its own if the release deserves a new portfolio entry, an update to an existing one, or nothing at all. When it decides something's worth showing, it updates the live portfolio and drafts the LinkedIn post. You ship. It handles the rest.
