Blog: Hackathon 2025 roundup and highlights

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A Hackathon isn’t for the faint-hearted. Time is limited, the pressure’s on and solutions need to be found fast. But as anyone who works in development knows, it’s these concentrated bursts of productivity over a 48-hour period that often yield the most creative results.

This was why we recently hosted another Infigo Hackathon at our Moldova HQ in Chișinău, with many of our UK and global teams also taking part remotely.

Whilst our goal is for ALL of the following ideas to eventually become part of the live Infigo product, it is important to remember that at this early stage we cannot guarantee which ones will, or when. However, you can always get in touch and let us know your thoughts, feedback or if you have any questions.

One winner, countless innovations

Hackathon 2025 winner, George Vragalev, working on his “InfPay” idea
Hackathon 2025 winner, George Vragalev, working on his “InfPay” idea

With everything from augmented reality previews to enhanced UI across the platform, the Hackathon certainly didn’t disappoint. But as is the case with any tough competition, there could only be one winner. And this year that was Infigo Software Engineer, George Vragalev, who’s idea was “InfPay” – an Infigo Payment Integration System.

George said: “This is an API base payment interface that allows 3rd parties to create payment plugin integrations with Infigo. I also created the necessary documentation and a C# example plugin, to demonstrate how the integration should work.”

In second place was Lead Core Development expert Veaceslav ‘Slavic’ Andreev, who was working on resources versioning.

Veaceslav said this would be incredibly useful for Infigo users. He said: “My idea will allow us to store the previous versions of the CSS files, of the product descriptions, so at any point, the customer will be able to restore the latest three versions of the file/description/resource/script without the requirement to extract this from a DB/Storage backup.”

Pushing development boundaries

In joint third place respectively was Lead Software Engineer, Artur Paraschiv, who developed an incredible AR preview and Software Developer, Victor Bodarev, who devised “Infigo Marketplace”.

 

Lead Software Engineer, Artur Paraschiv’s MegaEdit 3D Preview with Augmented Reality

Artur’s outstanding MegaEdit 3D Preview with Augmented Reality idea, enables Infigo’s users to design a product using our flagship online editor, and then view it from your mobile phone in 3D. Artur said on his creation: “My idea integrates MegaEdit with Augmented Reality (AR), to enhance the end-users 3D preview experience, allowing them to visualise products in a real-world environment.

 

“Simply point your phone or device’s camera at any space, and the product will appear in true-to-life scale, texture, and detail – helping users to make confident design decisions. This feature is perfect for testing how furniture, decor, or other items fit and look within your home or workspace, before ordering.” 

 

On his Infigo Marketplace creation, Victor said: “The Infigo Marketplace will serve as a centralised hub where all product examples are easily discoverable and accessible. Customers can browse and self-install product packages directly on their storefronts, reducing the need for support intervention.

 

“This streamlined approach enhances storefront customisation, increases resource utilisation, and improves the overall customer experience.”

 

While these were the leading innovations that Infigo users could potentially see in the near future, there were plenty of other solutions that our talented teams created.

 

Vue.JS Developer, Virgiliu Plesca and Software Engineer, Adrian Gherman, worked together in creating “TableMaster”, a “seamless, code-free Admin Table Engine for consistency and usability”.

 

Adrian said: “We developed a framework that simplifies and automates the creation of interactive data tables for our application. By reducing manual effort, this solution saves time, enhances consistency, and makes table management more flexible and user-friendly.”

 

Meanwhile, Junior Front End Developer, Timothy ‘TJ’ Collado, was working on his ‘Save set extended functionality’, catchily named by TJ as “The Save set and funkalicious sol system”.

 

TJ said: “The redesigned Save Set functionality improves organisation and efficiency with features like folders for categorising sets, favourites for quick access, and drag-and-drop reordering. Additionally, recently saved or loaded sets are displayed for easy access, streamlining the storefront customisation process.”

 

Harnessing AI

 

Manual QA Engineer, Harper Lester, challenged herself by developing ‘AutoTest’, which would accelerate Quality Assurance with AI-Assisted Test Case Generation.

 

Harper said: “This is a trained AI bot that reads, digests and analyses a development task and returns the required test cases including, but not limited to, explorative, sanity, performance and stress test cases.

 

“The purpose of this AI bot is to improve and enhance the test planning and test scalability during the development and testing phases of a particular feature or functionality.”

 

JS Developer, Andrian Gaidarji, worked on introducing AI-powered features to Infigo’s flagship online editor, MegaEdit. Andrian said: “MegaEdit now empowers users with AI-driven capabilities for text and image fields, by generating new or editing existing content.”

 

“For the text fields – enabling content generation such as summarising existing text, enhancing ideas, or creating fresh content based on the input.”

 

“For the image fields – AI tools in MegaEdit allows users to easily edit or create new images, then add them directly to the gallery and use them in specific image fields.”

 

Heightened efficiency and scalability

 

Development Manager, Pablo Cubillas, set out to find a more efficient way of assigning tasks and ticket assignments for the development team. Again, this resulted in the implementation of AI.

 

He said: “How can we add an AI agent to help make decisions for task assignments? Using an automation tool like n8n that has a flowchart and API integrations. AI can easily query the task, create a document with the input data, and write back to the JIRA with their findings.”

 

Software Developer Ion Tentiuc, looked scaling our PDF Profiles Engine. He said: “Basically I optimised it by applying PDF profile logic. Currently, if several customers use a product which has a PDF profile at the same time, it creates a queue and customers need to wait in line.”

 

“For example, if customers A and B both upload a product with PDF profile, B will need to wait for A to apply A’s profile. It’s only after after the profile is applied for A, that applying the profile for B can begin.”

 

“Now, with my changes, I’ve added scalability. The applied PDF profile logic will work in parallel and the PDF profiles can be applied at the same time for multiple customers.”

 

Streamlined bug reporting and localised source content

 

QA Engineer Tatiana Gavrilita, investigated how to streamline bug reporting and automate Test Case documentation.

 

Tatiana said: “So, my job is to verify that the features that we implement work correctly, as per specifications in the task AND to document everything.”

 

“Our big challenge is that we spend an enormous amount of time in writing Test Cases with the correct descriptions and all the steps, so that it is clear how to execute those test cases.”

 

“My idea was to search for a tool that can help me in automatically generate the steps for a given flow and l can copy and paste the steps only. And l found a Chrome extension named Capture that has exactly the functionality that l needed.”

 

Software Developer, Dorin Buraga, worked on the quick localisation of resource content.

 

Dorin said: “This user-friendly feature makes it easy to identify and update localised text directly on customer-facing pages. This solution saves time and reduces confusion by highlighting translatable content, allowing instant updates, and providing real-time feedback for seamless personalisation.”

 

Automated test data and improved admin headers

 

The final two innovations from the event came from QA Lead & Automation Engineer, Alina Ataman and Front End Developer, Hector Occomore.

 

Focussing on boosting automation test efficiency with the Allure Reporting solution, Alina said: “The idea focuses on Allure Reporting’s ability to store the history of previous automation test runs and generate insightful graphs for analysis. By integrating Allure Reporting with our automation framework, Playwright, we can visualise trends, identify recurring failures, and track test stability over time. These actionable insights enable data-driven decisions, enhancing test reliability and overall product quality.”

 

Meanwhile, Hector took on the task of upgrading the existing admin header. He added: “I just added a dropdown account style section to the admin header.”

 

Innovation that renders you “speechless”

 

So, what was the overall feedback from the judging panel? Well, Infigo Managing Director, Alex Bowell, summed it up best.

 

He said: “For those who know me, you will know that it is very rare that I am left speechless!”

 

“But, the Infigo Hackathon 2025 was one of those moments. Spending 3 hours watching our unbelievably talented Development, QA, and Front End teams showcase their Hackathon creations to the entire company was absolutely mind-blowing!

 

“All I can say is… WOW. If you are an Infigo customer already, get ready – some of these innovations may even start rolling out in the coming weeks and months.”

 

“If you’re not yet an Infigo customer yet, well, maybe it’s time to change that.”

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