My Hackathon Submission (And a Review of Your Tools)

TL;DR: Using Convex on the back-end was a blast, it’s packed with built-in features that make development incredibly easy. For everything else, you can either use their pre-built implementations or roll your own without much trouble. On the front-end, after giving Next.js a try, I still find myself defaulting to React Router (in framework mode), though TanStack Start is looking very promising. As for Autumn, any DX abstraction that cleans up Stripe's messy webhook situation is an instant win in my book. To put each partner to the test, I built a chat app with a sprinkle of AI. You can check it out here: https://chat.efobi.dev. The full article is definitely worth a read.