I embedded myself in a vibe coding team at Gemini's AI hackathon in Singapore. Building an app in 7 hours takes real work. (www.businessinsider.com)

At Google's Gemini 3 hackathon in Singapore, a diverse team of Malaysian professionals came together to rapidly develop a "feng shui" app, designed to analyze users' outfits and workspaces in real-time using AI. The team, comprised of an accountant, an AI lecturer, an IT specialist, and a startup CTO, aimed to leverage AI's capabilities to create a potentially lucrative application within a seven-hour timeframe. They utilized the Gemini Live API to enable image and text analysis, navigating various technical challenges that arose during the coding process. The hackathon highlighted the power of collaborative and creative problem-solving in AI development, as the team iterated on their app, dubbed "Feng Shui Banana." Despite facing bugs and refinement issues, the team successfully implemented features that provided feng shui analyses based on real-time data from the camera input. Though they did not win a prize, the experience underscored the significance of spontaneous innovation in the tech space—demonstrating how traditional practices like feng shui can be digitally transformed through modern AI tools, potentially opening new markets in AI-driven lifestyle applications.