🏆 Hack Esbjerg 2026
Winners

Thank you to all 100+ participants who made this event incredible!

Corisol

Samuel Stikska · Tomáš Dračka · dkMatuGr

A macOS menu bar app that monitors your stress in real time using your webcam. It measures heart rate variability through facial blood flow (rPPG), blink rate, posture, and eye fatigue — all processed locally. When stress spikes, a local AI model generates personalized wellness suggestions, while a community panel shows anonymous team stress data to coordinate breaks together.

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🏆 WebLager Challenge Winner

ArchiveMatters

JensIssa Issa · CYPE YT · Kasper Rasmussen

Helps archives and large organisations preserve today's digital life by cutting compute costs 30–40% — distributing storage processing across low-cost external machines rather than expensive internal hardware.

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🏆 Prosa Challenge Winner

UnPlug

Patrick Hansen · Nelson Veríssimo · Victor Maximino · Saroj Lamichhane

Daily check-ins IT workers actually trust, plus anonymised team health insights for managers. AI detects concerning patterns and offers personalised wellness suggestions — all while keeping individual data private.

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🥈 2nd Place — Runner Up

DeTask

Jakob Primdal · isma159 · zhovzan92

A Chrome extension that encourages employees to complete daily wellbeing surveys. Companies get aggregated, anonymised team-level insights — never individual data — letting organisations proactively support their workforce without breaking trust.

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🏅 MLH — Best Use of Gemini API

.oasis

Katarína Brezániová · 4ndris1114

Blob AI breaks the digital trance — nudging your team to get offline and social. Addresses workplace isolation in IT by using Gemini to detect screen overload and gently encourage real-world connection before burnout sets in.

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🏅 MLH — Best Use of ElevenLabs · Wireless Earbuds

Unplug

Jan Lewandowski · AntonPelecOstrostrelec

A Slack bot that reads team stress signals and organises outdoor activities together. Rather than surveilling employees, it uses behavioural metrics and ElevenLabs voice synthesis to suggest weather-aware group outings — treating burnout as a human problem, not a productivity metric.

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13 projects were submitted in total

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How Winners Were Selected

Round 1: Group Judging

All projects presented to evaluation groups. Each team was judged by at least two separate jury groups on originality, impact, technical difficulty, and execution.