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We took 2nd place at the Open Gateway Hackathon run during Mobile World Congress 2026 by Talent Arena. The room was packed with strong teams and real demos—programmable networks, devices on real SIMs, and judges who knew their telco stack—so landing on the podium felt genuinely hard-earned. This post is about the experience: why we joined, how the idea turned into a weekend build, what broke along the way, and what I’d ship next. ...

Smart Focus Streaming is a hackathon PoC: an Android device streams two video tracks (low-res context + high-res / ROI source), a FastAPI backend proxies signalling and stores camera state, and a React dashboard composites the feeds in the browser and drives focus over a WebRTC DataChannel. For the hackathon story and 2nd place at MWC 2026 / Talent Arena, see the blog post: Open Gateway Hackathon 2026 – 2nd Place. ...