Join the nation's largest challenge-driven hackathon @ DeveloperWeek New York 2026!
DEVELOPERWEEK NEW YORK HACKATHON 2026
Join the largest challenge-driven in-person & online hackathon, co-located with DeveloperWeek New York 2026!
Our hackathons regularly attract over 300+ participants -- and we are inviting the international developer community to converge in-person & online this year for the DeveloperWeek New York Hackathon 2026!
In Person & Awards - TWA Hotel - June 9-10, 2026
Online - May 25 - June 10, 2026
1. Create a DevPost account and click Register on the DevPost DeveloperWeek New York Hackahton 2026 page.
2. DeveloperWeek New York Hackathon 2026 Hackathon Kicks off May 26, 2026!
3. Review full Hackathon Instructions here!
Requirements
View the Full Set of Instructions here!
- This is an in-person & online hackathon. Teams will be formed on Devpost.com at the DeveloperWeek New York 2026. From Devpost, participants can message each other to form teams, participate in chat boards, and communicate with sponsors.
- Teams can build apps from scratch (Mobile App / Web App).
- Teams can solve no challenges (build whatever you want) or can submit to as many challenges as they want.
- There will be two rounds of judging. During Round 1, judges will review all team projects and fill out a scoring sheet on each to determine the Overall Hackathon Winner. Round 2 is the Sponsor Round of judging. Each sponsor will judge the teams working on their Challenge(s) and determine a winner(s). The sponsors choose their own prize winners.
- Round 1 judging will be based on: 1) PROGRESS: How much progress you make on your submission; 2) CONCEPT: Does your submission solve a real problem?; and 3) FEASIBILITY: Could your submission grow/evolve to become a startup or be a profitable business.
Prizes
DeveloperWeek New York Hackathon 2026 Overall Winner
1st Place Prize:
- Amazon Echos (Up to 5)
- DevNetwork Premium All-Access Passes to all 2026 conferences - Announcement in our email to 60,000 subscribers listing your team and project
Tower Pipeline Challenge: Data-to-AI
The Challenge:
Leverage Tower to construct a functional application that integrates with external datasets to execute practical workflows. Potential project ideas include:
Executing dbt models for data transformation
Launching AI agents for advanced data interpretation
Developing interactive dashboards using Hex or Marimo
And much more...
Use cases:
Tower provides Pythonic serverless compute, orchestration and lakehouse data storage for your AI project:
Collaborate on Python apps with your team (with local development, application sharing, production deployments, orchestration and scheduling)
Provide your AI Agents with fresh and reliable data (acquire data from databases and web APIs and store them in a lakehouse on S3)
Use it for Feature Engineering (transform raw data to produce features for inference)
Each Hackathon Team gets:
2 months of free Tower usage to build your data infrastructure for AI: Team Plan with 5 users and 10,000 free compute minutes every month (a $300 value). Use it after the hackathon too!
Challenge Winners
6 months of free Tower usage: Team Plan with 5 users and 10,000 free compute minutes per month (a $900 value)
Each team member from the winning team receives a Brick for Builders - focus on building and temporarily block distracting notifications from your phone (up to $350 value)
What are Bricks for Builders?
Bricks (getbrick.app, not affiliated with Tower, although we are big fans) are palm-size physical devices that temporarily block distracting phone notifications with a simple tap by your phone. Use them without any subscriptions or complex setups and focus on building the winning AI project.
FAQ for devs:
Past Hackathons
https://techeurope.io/hackathons/london-hackathon-november-2025
Nimble - Build an Agentic App That Sees the Live Web
Build an AI-powered agentic app using Nimble to search, browse, extract, or analyze live web data.
Your project can be a web app, mobile app, API-triggered workflow, browser extension, Slack bot, autonomous research workflow, or any other agentic experience powered by real-time web intelligence.
Use Nimble’s Search, Extract, Crawl, Map, Web Search Agents (WSAs), MCP server, or APIs to create something useful, creative, and technically impressive.
Prizes
1st Place: $500 Amazon Gift Card + $500 in Nimble Credits
2nd Place: $250 Amazon Gift Card + $250 in Nimble Credits
Get the full details & submit:
https://devnetwork-ai-ml-hack-2026.devpost.com/
Questions or need help?
Discord: https://discord.gg/qRptsGRVh
Email: hackathon2026@nimbleway.com
name.com — Domain Roulette
Most projects start with an idea and end with a frantic search for an available domain. We're running it backwards.
How it works:
We will share a list of real, randomly selected domains. Your job is to pick the one that sparks the best idea. Then, build around it using any stack, framework, or AI tools you want.
Some domains will be obvious creative fits for a product. Some will make you laugh. Some will require very loose interpretation. That’s the point.
Select your domain here -- https://domainroulette.dev/
What we're judging:
Creative interpretation of the domain
Technical execution
Product polish and experience
Strength of concept and originality
How deeply the final project connects back to the domain itself
We are looking to reward teams that take an unexpected domain and turn it into something surprisingly thoughtful, useful, or entertaining.
Prizes
1st place: $2,500 cash
2nd place: $1,000 cash
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Geoffrey Domoracki
Founder @ DevNetwork
Katie Wokasch
Manager, Product Engineering @ name.com
Makenzie LeMay
Lead Designer @ name.com
Mark Wurtzel
Business Development @ Name.com
Khushan Adatiya
Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Timothy Spann
SR SE @ Snowflake
Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy
Ebay
Saurabh Phaltane
Senior Engineer @ Google
Him Raj Singh
Manager, Software Engineering @ PayPal
Aman Sardana
Senior Manager @ Capital One
Garvit Kataria
Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit
Indranil Jha
Principal Solutions Engineer @ Okta
Jatin Taneja
Lead member of technical staff @ Salesforce
Siri Varma Vegiraju
Senior Software Engineer @ Mircosoft
Alex Bit
Co-founder & CEO @ Codemod
Oleksandr Kondratiuk
CTO @ akirolabs
Gift Ojeabulu
Snr. Machine Learning Engineer @ Fastdoc
Arun Padmanabhan Narasimhan
Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Apurva Godghase
Lead Computer Vision Engineer
Rakesh Datta
Senior Technical Lead
Advait Patel
Senior Site Reliability Enginner @ Broadcom
Ajita Kanchivakam Ananth
Staff TPM @ Google
Shruti Tiwari
AI Product Leader @ Dell
RENJITH RAMACHANDRAN
Senior Solutions architect
Varun Kulkarni
Senior AI Product Manager @ Microsoft
Sonam Singhal
Senior Software Engineer
Sanjana Arun
Senior Product Leader @ eBay
Zohar Babin
Chief Strategy Officer @ Kaltura
Steve Taplin
CEO @ Sonatafy Technology
Siddharth Shah
Sr. Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Marcin Wudarczyk
CTO @ Ciklum
Juan Rafael Ruiz Carrillo
CTP @ 101OBEX
Simon Müller
CTO @ eigenmind
Seetaram Rayarao
JP Morgan Chase
Chad Stewart
Software Engineer @ Management Control Systems
Ayush Goyal
Senior Software Engineer @ Grafana Labs
Abhishek Chauhan
Sr. Director @ Sonatype
Vishal Pallerla
Solutions Architect @ InterSystems
Judging Criteria
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Progress
How much progress did you make? -
Concept
Does it solve a real problem? -
Feasibility
Could this become a startup or company?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
Invite others to compete
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