Win $6000 at AI Hackathon! 🤟
Free for everyone, early March 2026, let's vibe code together
Come join my AI Hackathon, a 72-hour building sprint where you create a real product from scratch using AI.
NO RULES!
100% FREE :)
Awesome opportunity to win $6k in cash prizes, meet hundreds of AI builders, and build your app from scratch.
Why Hackathons?
I did my very first hackathon in 2012.
They were a brand new thing at the time.
Me + my boyfriend (now husband) would drive from Berkeley (where we were college students) to San Francisco or San Jose to compete. We met other kids flying in from the East coast to participate.
We won prizes in several big ones.
MOST IMPORTANTLY:
Hackathons jumpstarted our crazy adventure into startups, building, and entrepreneurship.
Here’s a guest post from a 2012 hackathon where we won 3rd place:
https://blog.iron.io/guest-post-ironio-team-healthify/
... and here’s what we built that weekend:
“In our vision and our final version of Healthify, the HTML5 mobile/web application pulls thousands of tweets from Twitter, applies machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to analyze the relevance of tweets to keywords in a customizable dictionary, geolocates those tweets deemed relevant, plots them on a Google Map with distinct markers for distinct keywords, and then displays an information window for each marker, revealing the text of each tweet for audiences to read, gawk at, gasp at... In under ten hours, Healthify processes over 100,000 tweets and determined that nearly 10,000 are relevant to bio-surveillance!”
In another big hackathon, called AngelHack, we built a quantum circuit simulator and called it Qurious. I did NOT have a very good answer to: “What’s your business model?” 😅
But we kept the same name for our 1st startup :)
And after the hackathon, we all toured Google HQ together!
Here’s another one…
2013 Berkeley x Bloomberg Hackfest write up:
Sabrina Atienza and George Ramonov, the students behind M3D (Mass Minable Medical Data), describe their project as “Google for Healthcare”— an intuitive and fast search engine for clinical and biomedical research.
In the midst of building a functional visual programming language and interface, the team stepped away to pitch their Big Idea in Bloomberg’s Pitch Roulette. A panel of investors and mentors broke down their business model, revenue potential, and options for building their idea into a successful business.
“We’re elevating M3D to the next level by iterating on the judges’ feedback and connecting with potential stakeholders who approached us after the presentation,” [Sabrina] Atienza shared. “Right now, we’re in discussion with leading academic hospitals in the Bay Area to determine the best fit for our clinical pilot.”
My personal favorite hackathon was hosted by Box.
We built a tool called MortgageBlade after partnering with a realtor. We won a bunch of small prizes including a unicorn plushie Squishable (my 1st ever) which I kept for a decade, dragging it with me to each new apartment.
You can probably tell…
I’m a big fan of hackathons 😁
And with vibe coding democratizing coding, it’s crazy what you can build in 1 focused weekend.
Sign up here: https://www.skool.com/hackathon (it’s free)
The Schedule
Mar 5th - Last day to sign up
Mar 6th – Kickoff Livestream + Build Day
Mar 7th – Build Day + Check-ins
Mar 8th – Submission Deadline
Mar 8th – Live Demo & Winners
Prizes
$3000 1st place
$2000 2nd place
$1000 3rd place
Sponsored by me/Blotato and Marcin Teodoru 🤟
+ your project showcased to our audiences
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To be clear what is it that we need to create?