A song for Kiro and my project for the kiroween 2025

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The Digital Exorcist

Play it as a Game, or Use it as a Tool

The Kiroween hackathon started in early November.

I only discovered it on December 1st.

That gave me four days.

I worked intensely during those four days — but I won’t lie: what I built would have been impossible without Kiro.

At first, I planned to enter the costume contest. But then a different question stuck with me:

What if I could make something boring… enjoyable?

What if I could take a purely functional, uninspiring task and transform it into something playful, and memorable?

That’s when I decided to play a bit of Frankenstein combining a “boring” problem with a fun, narrative-driven concept and turning it into a single cohesive application.

That experiment became The Digital Exorcist.

What is The Digital Exorcist?

The Digital Exorcist reimagines file cleanup as an experience instead of a chore.

It can be approached in different ways:

as a game
as a tool
or as a hybrid interactive flow

The idea is simple:

boring technical tasks don’t have to feel boring.

How Kiro Made This Possible

Building this in four days required speed, clarity, and structure.

Kiro helped me:

define clear requirements
break the idea down into concrete tasks
structure the project into distinct modes
stay aligned while moving fast
unblock problems when things got stuck

I wasn’t coding blindly, I was building with guidance.

This wasn’t about replacing creativity or control.

It was about alignment, structure, and momentum.

The Process

This project wasn’t easy to build in such a short time.

But I genuinely enjoyed:

discovering how to work with Kiro
pushing myself creatively
turning an abstract idea into something tangible

Because I enjoyed the process so much, I ended the project by creating a song — a tribute to Kiro, and to everyone who had fun building alongside it.