HackMIT 2026, Meta Track & Espressif Prize Winner

HackMIT Preamble

HackMIT was a blast. We're so fortunate to have been accepted to participate. After a few days catching up with friends in New York and a mini roadtrip around the Cape Cod, we arrived in Boston for HackMIT.

Our team was Myself, Keanu, Faraz and Anwiketh. I had done many hackathons across the UK with Faraz and Keanu, but Anwiketh was based in Boston and it was our first time working together.

What an event. The scale and quality of hacker experience was super strong, and the quantity of sponsors was certainly impressive. The blend of students from across the world was certainly a special group to be a part of. We also got to meet 3blue1brown!

Our Project

Almost every relationship that matters to you, you got by chance. Klick gives everyone an AI twin, and when two people walk past each other their twins have a quick chat in the background. If there's an actual reason for you two to meet, you both get told who and why at the same moment, and the badge on your lanyard goes the same colour as theirs so you can find each other.

Digital-twin matching for in-person events: each user's LLM twin is built from a short voice or text intro, with editable facts and off-limits topics. When two phones detect each other over BLE, their twins negotiate on Meta Muse Spark (12–16 s) and reveal a reason to meet only on mutual consent.

We also built digital event badges based off ESP32 for matching without having to look down at your phone.

I Built the Kotlin Android app (concurrent BLE advertise/scan) and TypeScript Firebase backend, using Firestore transactions to deduplicate negotiations.

The Github repo is named 'blades' because that's the name of the bar in the James Bond universe where agents meet.

We won the prizes Espressif - Winner - Best Use of Espressif Hardware & Solutions and Meta - 1st Place - Bringing People Closer Together with AI.