The SummerHack
A gathering of the hardcore AI enthusiasts the first weekend of August.
August Challenge Winner
We incentivised participants to continue building on their projects through more iterations, reinforcement of the tech stack, promotions on social media and speaking with potential customers. The winner was determined by most LLM usage measured by Requesty.
Team Pabu
$500 CreditCongratulations to Team Pabu for achieving the highest LLM usage through August, demonstrating exceptional commitment to iterating and improving their project! Team: Bill Nguyen, Luka Kourtor, Gordian
Congratulations! 🎉
Massive congratulations to our winners. Here are the teams that took home the prizes.
Team Goodomen
£2000 Grand PrizeSceneSpeak
An AI video director that generates brand-consistent videos with voice commands in real time. Made use of Crusoe GPU resources, Runware image generation, ElevenLabs for voice control and custom built real time video generation & streaming server.
Team: Marko Stapfner, Aaron Jones, Giovanni Funchal
Also won bounties from Runware
Team Dashmap
Summer Goals WinnerAI-Powered Cycling Co-Pilot
An AI-powered cycling co-pilot for navigation, safety, and emergency response. Leveraged Memories.ai's pre-general release API for video summarisation, ElevenLabs for voice agents and Prolific for video data annotation.
Team: Nadhira Salsabila, Saffan Firdaus, Shi Jinwei
Also won bounties from Memories.ai, Prolific, and mentorship from incident.io
Team Clueless
Summer Quest WinnerAI Desktop Assistant
An AI-powered desktop assistant that delivers real-time, on-screen workflow guidance for business software. No more searching through static documentation. Built with ACI.dev, Anthropic, Daytona AI infra, and ElevenLabs voice interaction.
Team: Aryan Kaushik, Pratyaksh Mishra, Adam O'Neill, Jeremy Shorter
Also won top bounties from Daytona and ACI.dev
Team CoffeeMonster 3000
Summer Fun WinnerGifswap
A gifswap that allows you to personalise culturally significant memes to you and your friends. Using Anthropic Claude Code the team built something everyone couldn't wait to get their hands on. Open sourced and coming to an app soon!
Team: Alexander Cobb, Rayan Saleh
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