u/Intrepid_Audience_69

First year, everyone was hyped watching "how I cracked Google" videos. Now in my second/third year, my college's WhatsApp groups are completely dead unless someone is asking about exams.

I’m trying to build real projects, get into open source, prep for interns, and maybe do some hackathons (AI/ML mostly). But finding even one serious person to team up with locally feels impossible.

For the few of you who are actually building and not just doing random tutorials:

1. When you need a teammate for a specific hackathon or project, how are you actually finding them right now?
2. Have you ever tried teaming up with someone from a different college? Did it actually work out, or did the Discord/WhatsApp chat just die after three days?
3. When you get stuck on a weird bug and ai is hallucinating, where do you go to ask for help?

I'm genuinely feeling lost doing this completely solo and want to know what you guys are doing to survive the isolation.