[02]hackathon

★ My first SIH

Smart India Hackathon 2025

🫠 Not selected

My second hackathon and my first shot at Smart India Hackathon. We pitched AyurSutra, a platform for Panchakarma therapy centres, in the university's internal round and didn't make the cut. It's also the hackathon where an AI tool built our whole app in minutes, and changed how I think about building.

When
October 2025
Where
Chitkara University, Punjab
Hosted by
SIH 2025 · University internal round
Format
in person · Internal round
Track
Panchakarma patient management

[01]The squad

  • Govind Jindal← that's me
  • Piyush Sharma
  • Bhavishya Grover

[02]The round

  1. Round 1

    University internal round

    We pitched AyurSutra to the jury that picks the university's teams for SIH, with a deck and a Django prototype that our own README honestly rated "~35% complete".

    🫠 Not selected

[03]What we built

AyurSutra

AyurSutra home page

  • Doctor, patient and admin roles

    One sign-in with role-based access, on a custom Django user model with token auth.

  • Patient profiles

    Prakriti and Vikriti, medical history and emergency contacts, all in one record.

  • Appointments

    Consultations, treatments and follow-ups, each tracked from scheduled to completed.

  • Treatment plans

    Sessions done against sessions planned, plus medicines, diet and lifestyle advice.

  • Ayurveda assistant

    A Gemini-powered chatbot that answers Ayurvedic questions in context.

  • Notifications and feedback

    Reminders and payment alerts, plus multi-criteria (optionally anonymous) patient feedback.

Django 5Django REST FrameworkSQLiteTailwind CSSJavaScriptGoogle Gemini

GitHub

[04]Plot twist

We typed one prompt. An AI built our whole app. 😱

Base44's AyurSutra, generated from a single prompt.
Base44's AyurSutra, generated from a single prompt.

Then 😱

Halfway through building, we found Base44. We pasted in the problem statement and a prompt, and it generated the entire app: patients, schedules, treatment plans, practitioners, even a dosha quiz. We looked at each other: "Bhai, AI to sab kuch kar lega. We're done." 💀

Now 🧠

The app turned out to be the easy part. Knowing what to build, designing it so it feels right, making the architecture hold up and actually thinking the problem through is still the job, and it's still a long way ahead of any prompt. 🧠

[05]The commit history

Commits
14
Span
54 min
Avg. message
2.6 chars
Shortest
“c”

My first commits ever. A friend's entire git tutorial: "just type anything and press this button." 🫡 So I did, at 1:38 AM, and every message got shorter than the last one: "Change", "ch", "Chan", then just "c". No idea what a commit was. Zero regrets. 😅

[06]From the floor

Tesla Block, Chitkara, 23 September 2025
Tesla Block, Chitkara, 23 September 2025
AyurSutra — your Panchakarma wellness partner
AyurSutra — your Panchakarma wellness partner
“Not getting selected stung for a day. Base44 stung for longer, until I saw what it couldn't do. The gap between a generated app and a product that's been properly thought through is what I've been working on ever since.”

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