Hey DEV Community! 👋
I just officially hit "submit" on my entries for both the June Solstice Game Jam (I built Solstice Sync, a fast-paced cosmic alignment game using React and Gemini 2.5-Flash) and the Finish-Up-Thon challenge.
It has been an absolutely wild, high-energy couple of weeks. Building the frontend logic, managing the state, dealing with API timing dependencies, and getting everything deployed in time was an incredible rush—but man, my brain is completely fried today! 😂
Now that the code is shipped and the submissions are locked in, I'm sitting here staring at a blank VS Code window wondering what to do next.
💬 My question for the community:
How do you transition out of "crunch mode" after a major hackathon or project deadline?
Do you dive straight into learning a new stack (like plunging into backend/cloud databases)?
Do you close the laptop completely for 48 hours to touch grass?
Or do you just spend your time playing and testing other participants' submissions?
Drop your post-hackathon recovery routines below! And if you also participated in the Solstice Jam or the Finish-Up-Thon, drop your project links—I'd love to check out what you built! 👇
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