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From Jamie at Affinda: for anyone who uses ChatGPT or Claude for uni but hasn't built anything with AI yet. It teaches you how to use AI, not what to build. The ideas are up to you.

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๐Ÿ“ฆ Download

The full original pack (every file, as Jamie made it). For coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code): unzip it, open the folder in your tool and say "Read AGENTS.md and start us off."

affinda-hackathon-starter.zip

Chat apps (ChatGPT, Claude): create a Project for your team, upload this one file and say "Read the starter pack and start us off."

ALL-IN-ONE.md

Not sure which? Start with a chat app.


๐ŸŽฌ Video walkthrough

A 7-minute walkthrough from Jamie. Watch it before you start building.

https://youtu.be/1JODdW1puRI


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The pack is help, not rules. If anything in it differs from the Hacker Hub, Track Guide or Discord announcements, the official version wins. Back to the Affinda AI Innovation Challenge: Hacker Hub

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๐Ÿ“– Read it online

No download needed. These are the pack's guides for people, word for word: start with Start here, then dip into any guide. The other files in the zip (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, HACKATHON.md, PROJECT-TEMPLATE.md) are written for your AI, so they're only in the download.

Start here

Guide 1 ยท Tools: beyond the chat box

Guide 2 ยท Prompting: getting good work out of AI

Guide 3 ยท Context: memory, context rot, and long tasks