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Pronea Hackathon: spndr

An AI CFO, built in 48 hours at the Pronea Hackathon in Partizánske, Slovakia. Five-person team, Fintech track.

five-person team48 hoursfintech · dashboard · Telegram bot

// evidence

duration
48 hours
team
five people
track
Fintech
shipped
4 surfaces
Pitching spndr on stage in front of the title slide at the Pronea Hackathon
The pitch. Title slide: spndr — your money bro.

// The event

Six teams of five, each one assigned a different category — Fintech, Recruitment and Future Commerce among them. We took Fintech.

// What shipped in 48 hours

A complete onboarding flow, working registration and login, a dashboard, and a Telegram bot.

The auth worked. That is the line between a prototype and a clickable mockup, and it is the line most 48-hour builds do not cross.

// The pitch

The product framed itself as a spending conscience rather than another budgeting app. The title slide ran the whole idea as a conversation: yo, you just spent $47 on boba — that’s your 3rd this week btw — relax, I’ll set a limit.

Tagline: your money bro.

// What 48 hours actually costs

Some of the team went past twenty-four hours without sleep. The rest got two or three. The photograph taken at 3am is the honest version of a hackathon result, and it belongs next to the one taken on stage.

// from the room

The team at their table with laptops late at night, a laptop clock reading 3:02
3:02am. Table two, still going.
The team gathered around laptops working through the build with a mentor
Mid-build, with a mentor on the table.
Four team members at the venue working at their laptops
The Fintech table at work.