Dojo · 01 · Grain · 4 min

The building is not on your team

University hall, Saturday 11:00. Two thousand people. The venue Wi‑Fi is a rumour with a password. Your product currently loads models from the public internet. Judging is Sunday 16:00, on a stage, with a projector you have not seen.

What is the hack — the move the weekend actually requires?

• aArrive at dawn and hog a wired port so your live demo stays up
• bMake the product and the demo fully offline; film the happy path; treat the building as hostile
• cComplain to organisers and demand they fix the network before you continue
• dPivot the whole product into a Wi‑Fi diagnostic, because the constraint is interesting