Karan Raj KR: writing https://www.karanrajkr.com/ Build notes, hackathon stories and engineering lessons. We Scrapped 6 Hours of Work Mid-Hackathon. Then We Won 1st Place at Open Loop 2026. https://karanrajkr.hashnode.dev/open-loop-2026-formpilot-winner https://karanrajkr.hashnode.dev/open-loop-2026-formpilot-winner Three first-year students scrapped six hours of work, pivoted at 5 PM, and won 1st place at Open Loop 2026 with FormPilot, an AI Chrome extension. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT My First Year of Engineering: What I Built, Won, and Actually Learned https://karanrajkr.hashnode.dev/my-first-year-of-engineering https://karanrajkr.hashnode.dev/my-first-year-of-engineering What I built, won and learned during my first year of engineering. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT