HoagieClub

Princeton's Hoagie Software Development Club. One of Kevin's primary Princeton communities - both as a student org and as a social cluster that overlaps heavily with HackPrinceton operations and the Dedalus orbit.

What Hoagie Is To Kevin (compiled)

Source: Resume, Kevin B. Liu, Cathy Di, Athan Zhang, Caleb Kha-Uong, Mark Rubin

People (Hoagie Cluster)

• Caleb Kha-Uong - "Part of the dev/Hoagie/HackPrinceton operations crew; helped run the Hoagie devpost mechanics"
• Athan Zhang - Hoagie / Copperlane orbit, design-systems sparring partner
• Mark Rubin - Princeton dev/Hoagie/HackPrinceton scaffolding crew
• Cathy Di - Hoagie / Dedalus-orbit Princeton friend

Full set: rg "hoagie" wiki/people/

The Motivation Problem

HoagieClub runs like a classic SWE org - product managers, designers, team leads, engineers - but without the extrinsic motivation of salary, equity, or benefits. Kevin identified this as the core structural challenge: it's hard to motivate people to work on something that isn't their "baby." The professional org structure assumes extrinsic motivation exists. Without it, the structure is scaffolding around nothing. Source: User, 2026-04-29

Kevin's solution (discussed with Cathy Di): stop trying to transfer motivation. Instead, teach the tools and let people build things they actually own. This is the thesis of Ownership Drives Building and Want It Bad Enough. Source: User, 2026-04-29

Hoagie Hacks

Kevin will be leading Hoagie Hacks in Fall 2026. This is a step up from member to leadership - taking ownership of the hackathon arm of the club. Source: User, 2026-04-23

Open Questions for Kevin

• What does Hoagie actually mean to you - software club, friend group, ops crew, identity, all of it?
• How did you get pulled in?
• What have you built or shipped through Hoagie that you're proud of?
• Where does Hoagie sit in the social map - closer to Dedalus or closer to a separate Princeton circle?
• What's the thing about Hoagie that makes it different from a generic campus tech club?
• What's your vision for Hoagie Hacks - what do you want it to become under your leadership?

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Timeline

• 2026-07-01 | Project graph refresh checked this page against Kevin's live GitHub inventory and PortfolioMon scrape. No direct repo/card match was promoted here, so the page remains a context or umbrella project page. Source: raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json; raw/sites/kevinliu-biz-2026-07-01/portfolio-projects.json

• 2026-04-21 | Page created as part of institutions-batch-2026-04-21. Compiled from resume + 5 existing person-page references. Marked institution-page-needs-personal-angle. Source: User, 2026-04-21

• 2026-04-23 | Kevin confirmed he will be leading Hoagie Hacks next semester (Fall 2026). Stepping up from member to hackathon leadership. Source: User, 2026-04-23

• 2026-04-29 | Kevin used HoagieClub as the case study for the Ownership Drives Building motivation problem: professional org structure without extrinsic motivation. Discussion with Cathy Di led to the Want It Bad Enough philosophy. Source: User, 2026-04-29