In May 2024 Fast-Https was competing in the China International College Students’ Innovation Competition 2024 (formerly “Internet+”), one of the largest student innovation events in the country. Judges look at technical depth, and at whether the project can keep running.

Preparing was a systematic review in itself: compressing more than two years of development into a few pages, and explaining why it was built, what was built and why it should continue. Every question that could not be answered pointed at a gap the product had to close next.