A 3-day online hackathon for builders shipping their first AI-assisted micro-product
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HackOnVibe — June 2026
A 3-day online hackathon for builders shipping their first AI-assisted micro-product
with vibe coding. Kickoff, mentor sessions, pitching, and final results — all in one
focused build weekend.
Sponsors
Sponsor support
Iteration Machine supports this edition
Iteration Machine is an AI growth engine for indie builders and small SaaS — it runs growth experiments (pricing, onboarding, SEO) and ships the improvements automatically. Each team that submits and defends a completed project gets $300 of credits.
$300 credits per team that submits and defends a completed project
The people who ran this edition and evaluated the projects.
What you'll walk away with
Every builder who takes part receives a verifiable Certificate of Participation. Winners earn a Diploma — an Award for Excellence in the Field of AI Product Engineering — and some of you also take home cash prizes.
Each certificate is a real PDF with a built-in hyperlink to your personal page for this hackathon, so anyone can open it and verify the achievement is genuine.
On your personal page, add your GitHub username. We use it to add you to your team's project repository — the place you push your build. Do this before Friday's kickoff so your access is ready.
We create your team's GitHub repo and send you an invite. Open your GitHub inbox, accept it, then push a quick “Hello world!” — that checks the whole pipeline end-to-end (repo access → push → CI/CD → live). Do this before Friday's kickoff; the video shows exactly how.
Live overview of the format and the general points (also on this page), on Google Meet. The session is recorded — the video is posted in our Discord so everyone can rewatch and catch up. Attend live to ask questions, or ask anytime in your edition's channel on Discord.
Missed the call or want a rewatch? Here's the recorded kickoff — a full walkthrough of the deployment pipeline. Pushed a change but your live site still shows the old version? The pinned Discord post has a short video on merging your PR so the deploy lands, plus how to automate pushing with your AI. Open the card to read the FAQ.
Mentor sessions for product, technical and business feedback.
Publish to GitHub
Publish your team's project to GitHub by 9:00 PM MT on Sunday — the end of the day in your local time. This is the hard submission cutoff.
Questionnaire + 5-min preview
Fill in the questionnaire and prepare a 5-minute preview of your product with a video link (YouTube, a video on Google Docs, or another option — a link to the video is what matters) and send it to the organizers.
Voting
Projects are reviewed and voted on.
Results & awards
We announce winners, summarize the strongest projects and celebrate what teams shipped.
Winners
Hover a place to see the team — hover (or tap) a builder for ways to connect.
Out of Competition
Special awards issued by the founders beyond the ranked tracks.
Vibe coding is welcome. HackOnVibe is open to solo builders and teams of 1–4 people. You can use
AI coding tools, no-code tools, templates, APIs, open-source libraries, and third-party services.
Who can join
Vibe coders and first-time builders
Developers, designers, students, and product people
Indie makers, future founders, and AI tool explorers
What to submit
A working product the judges can test themselves — a finished, realized implementation that brings real benefit; ideally something new, unique, and as autonomous from the user as possible
A 5-minute video presentation of your product
A completed questionnaire — you get it in our Discord
Technical requirements are available in our Discord channel
Build in the GitHub repository the hackathon issues you — and ask the organizers in advance to add your build there, so they can see the tech stack you plan to work on
Product vision
Core functionality and user flow
AI-powered features and integrations
Business model and monetization idea
Go-to-market or first-user acquisition plan
June 5-7, 2026 • online hackathon
Build your first AI-assisted micro-product in one weekend
Code, deploy, demo, and pitch the product you have been postponing.
HackOnVibe is for builders who want to stop postponing ideas. You do not need to build a
company in 72 hours. You need a small everyday tool people can open, understand, try, and
support. All hackathon communication, team formation, mentor updates, reminders, and support
will happen in our Discord community.
The main challenge is to build an AI-assisted application for everyday use: individually,
inside a small team, or for a small or medium-sized business.
Project focus
Build a practical product with clear technical implementation and a real business case. The
project should solve a recurring problem and show how it can become useful for individuals,
small teams, or small and medium-sized businesses.
Technical implementation
Show a working product flow, core architecture, integrations, data inputs and outputs, and what was built during the hackathon.
AI functionality
Use AI meaningfully inside the product or workflow. Explain what AI does, why it matters, and how it improves the user experience.
Problem and users
Define the recurring problem, target users, use case, and why the product would be used regularly.
Business model
Describe customer segments, pricing, monetization, competitors or alternatives, and the path to first paying users.
Go-to-market
Explain how you would attract early customers, test demand, collect feedback, and continue after the hackathon.
Product presentation
Prepare a clear demo and pitch that explain the product, functionality, technical choices, business logic, and next steps.
Criteria: Tracks & prizes
Two award tracks — the same criteria we issue certificates by. Every project is judged as an
early product experiment: a real problem, a working demo, meaningful AI, and business logic.
Business Success track
Certificates and prize money.
1st 50%2nd 30%3rd 20%
$100 total prize pool
All prizes are paid directly by the Organizer. HackOnVibe does not hold or distribute funds.
Solves a real, recurring problem for clear users
Working demo and understandable product flow
Meaningful AI inside the product or workflow
Business model: pricing, customers, path to first revenue
World Impact track
Certificates of achievement.
Tackles a real-world or social problem that matters
Working demo and understandable product flow
Meaningful AI inside the product or workflow
Who it helps, how, and why it can keep going
Find your certificate
Type at least 3 letters of a name to find a certificate from this edition.
Code • Create • Vibe • Innovate
Bring an idea. Leave with a demo.
Register, join the Discord community, find a team or build solo. All communication during the
hackathon will happen there, from kickoff updates to mentor session details and final reminders.
