qBraid/HAQS-2022

The HAQS-2022 repository is a static educational artifact. Its primary value was realized during the 2022 hackathon event hosted by qBraid. Quantitatively, the high fork-to-star ratio (85 forks vs 21 stars) is a classic signature of a hackathon or classroom repository where participants must fork the project to submit their solutions. With a velocity of 0.0 and an age of nearly 3.5 years, the project serves as a historical reference rather than an active development tool. In the rapidly evolving quantum sector, 'Hardware-Aware' code from 2022 is largely obsolete, as noise models, gate sets, and device topologies for providers like IBM, IonQ, and Rigetti have shifted significantly. From a competitive standpoint, this project faces total displacement by newer annual challenges from IBM (Qiskit Challenges) and the Linux Foundation's Agnostiq/Unitary Fund initiatives. The 'moat' is non-existent; the content is easily reproducible and the technical stack relies entirely on third-party SDKs. It poses no threat to frontier labs and is effectively an archived marketing and community-building asset for the qBraid platform.