Turns e-commerce discovery into an explorable 3D world — categories become mountains, result counts become terrain height, and an LLM guide narrates the tour.
The win looks like a translation problem solved well. Vector search is invisible, and turning it into terrain — categories as mountains, result counts as height — communicates faster than any explanation of embeddings could. In a format where judging happens in minutes, being legible at a glance is a genuine advantage. Adding a narrating guide keeps it from being merely a pretty visualisation and makes it something you can actually browse with.
Eight winners across two Qdrant hackathons all treat the question of what to remember, and how, as the actual subject.
When something that is not a business problem wins, there is always a mechanism that lands instantly.
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