Hackhog is two engineers who like everything: hardware, software, AI, CAD, DSP. Our first hack was the Black Forest Hackathon in May 2026 — and we plan to keep showing up, because 48 uninterrupted hours is the most fun you can have building something.
Small. Spiky. Mostly nocturnal. Surprisingly fast when it counts. A duo can't out-headcount anyone, so we lean into the things a tiny team does better than a big one: nothing falls between cracks because there are no cracks, and any decision is a single Whatsapp message.
We also genuinely don't want to specialise. The good problems live at the seams — between hardware and firmware, between firmware and UI, between a working prototype and a demo a stranger can use.
Green pipes, preview deploys, typed schemas. Boring infra is a competitive edge.
If a feature isn't in the demo flow, it's not in the repo. One polished surface beats five rough ones.
Loading states, mechanical fits, micro-copy, sound. Judges remember texture.
We solder, we type, we 3D-print, we deploy. The fun is in the seams.
We swap responsibilities every weekend. Whoever sleeps less gets to demo.
If we can't show it on a laptop or hold it in a hand, we won't talk about it.
We don't pick a lane. These are the surfaces we end up on most often when the timer starts.
Mobile platforms, manipulators, perception. Low-cost RC parts and printed structures, controlled by something we wrote on the train.
Bare-metal Rust, RTOS, custom PCBs. We like the parts where bytes meet volts and a tiny mistake makes a small fire.
Practical models, fast iteration, honest evals. We use the ML that makes the demo work, not the ML that fills the slide.
Pipelines, preview environments, weird little CLIs. Boring infra wins hackathons — so we start there.
Tight, opinionated frontends. We treat the UI as part of the engineering, not as a layer applied after.
Mechanical, audio, tooling, pitching. If a deadline asks for it and the part is online by Friday, it's in scope.
Two people, both opinionated, both willing to learn whatever the weekend demands. Their CVs are unfortunately less interesting than their commits.