# Bog-a-thon 2

Scenes from our second Bog-a-thon in Manhattan

By Édouard Urcades — 2026-07-29

Last Saturday at Index, we reconvened with new faces and old friends and *even* a few participants from [Bog-a-thon 1](/posts/bogathon-1).

Creativity sprang forth! 

We got a real look at what it looks like to hand people a new digital material. People built incredible and highly functional hacks this time around: A few games driven by our incremental computing framework were created and insanely performant search systems were built for a number of domains.

This time around, we established a new system involving trusted judges assessing the hacks people submitted. We sent a few people home with rewards. 

A clip, video stills, and photographs from the second Bog-a-thon:

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Our various submissions this time around:

- [Semgrep](https://github.com/nlaz/semgrep): Zero-dependency, fully local, semantic search for agents
- [Bogchat](https://bogchat.flowercomputer.com): Our digital meeting space for the duration of the hackathon
- [Flowerdocs](https://flowerdocs.fly.dev): A collaborative document editor with efficient derived views
- [Papermech](https://papermech.fly.dev): An arena shooter using fold to determine damage/scoring
- [Bog Video Search](https://video-search.fly.dev): A very fast YouTube transcript embedding and search system
- [Flowersheets](https://flowersheets.fly.dev): A functional spreadsheet in fewer than 500 lines of code
- [Bog Bench](https://github.com/flowercomputers/bogkit/pull/3): An incremental benchmark harness for agent tooling
- [Instant Base Views](https://github.com/flowercomputers/bogkit/pull/4): A fast, continuously updated table-view experiment
- [Tompkins Audio Search](https://github.com/flowercomputers/bogkit/pull/5): A searchable multimodal memory of a park
- [Séance](https://github.com/flowercomputers/bogkit/pull/6): Time-travel search for Git repositories
- [MUDGarden](https://github.com/flowercomputers/bogkit/pull/7): A persistent shared gardening world with autonomous residents
- [Untitled Mobile FPS](https://github.com/flowercomputers/bogkit/pull/8): A camera-driven multiplayer finger-gun game for iPhone

We'll see you at [the next one](https://partiful.com/e/juWAwRs3XMWP7s9wLNWK)!

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