Cartouch
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An oval figure on monuments, and in papyri, containing the nameof a sovereign.
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Noun: [A project] that sounds really good but cant do some of the [functionality] you [claim it] does
Verb: The act of making [a project] look and sound really good but it doesnt actually work
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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.
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