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

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

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

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