Blogs›Qdrant›Hackathon Project Showcase
Qdrant is being used in a wide variety of innovative projects showcased through hackathons, demonstrating its versatility beyond traditional chatbot applications. These projects span areas like robotics, 3D e-commerce, spatial-temporal NPC behavior, route-aware event discovery, personality-driven social platforms, AI choreography for dance, and multi-modal classroom assistants. The hackathons highlight the use of Qdrant with various AI frameworks and technologies, including Neo4j, CrewAI, Mistral-7B, and Apify. Sentinel, a hackathon winner, uses Qdrant for semantic search to detect misinformation by comparing news articles.
4/29/2026
This post details the Sentinel project, a hackathon winner that uses Qdrant Cloud for semantic search to detect misinformation. Sentinel scrapes news from 20 global sources, stores article embeddings in Qdrant, and uses Mistral-7B to identify factual contradictions. Qdrant's ability to find semantically related articles across different wording was crucial for the system's success.
9/29/2025
This post details the winners and honorable mentions of the 2025 Qdrant Hackathon, highlighting diverse applications of vector search. Projects like 'Vector Vintage' showcase 3D product exploration using embeddings, Qdrant similarity search, and Neo4j for graph curation. 'RoboBank' uses Qdrant for trajectory memory and reflex suggestions in robotics. 'Spatio-Temporal NPCs' leverage Qdrant for subconscious memory with CLIP and text embeddings tagged with locations. Other projects demonstrate route-aware event discovery with hybrid search, personality matching for social platforms, AI choreography for dance, and multi-modal classroom assistants integrating speech, video, and documents with Qdrant retrieval. The post also mentions the use of Qdrant Edge for future edge technologies.