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2026-01-02 • 10 min read

Building an Internal Hackathon Management Platform with Go and Buffalo

How I built a production-ready, enterprise-grade platform for running internal company hackathons using Go, Buffalo framework, and PostgreSQL—complete with audit logging, role-based access control, and a comprehensive admin dashboard.

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