In May 2024 Fast-Https entered the 2024 Challenge Cup capital university entrepreneurship plan competition, made it through the university round and won third prize in Beijing.

Entrepreneurship competitions care less about code quality than about whose problem it solves, how large the market is, and why others cannot build it. Answering those questions forced the team to re-examine positioning and differentiation — that narrative later became the standard introduction to Fast-Https.