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Noun: A project that sounds really good but can't do some of the functionality you claim it does

Verb: The act of making a project look and sound really good but it doesn't actually work
Your project was a cartouch.

I cartouched my hackathon project, it was supposed to be able to unlock a car from a thumbprint but it actually can't do jack shit.
by New Gamer March 10, 2019
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(Verb): When you create a hackathon project with a really good user interface/frontend, but with barely any backend at all in order to hide the uselessness of your project. This term originated when an app called Cartouch, which supposedly unlocks your car with your fingerprint but actually only creates a message box that says "your car has been unlocked", won first place at a hackathon, beating out much cooler machine learning projects.
He cartouched his app and still won 1st place, even though it had a copy pasted template GUI and just one if statement.
by Bango Pope March 10, 2019
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