About the challenge

The GenAI Devs Hackathon is a call to action for students and developers to harness the power of Generative AI to solve the world's most pressing challenges. We aren't looking for "cool" tech for its own sake; we are looking for purpose-driven applications that make a measurable impact on society.

From climate change and healthcare accessibility to education and social justice, your mission is to build a functional tool that leaves the world better than you found it.

Joining the Discord community is COMPULSORY

Requirements

What to Build

Participants must build and deploy a functional application that utilizes Generative AI to address a specific Social Good category. We want to see how you leverage AI-native development workflows (using tools like Lovable, Cursor, v0.dev,Bolt,TRAE etc.) to build solutions that matter.

What to submit

To be eligible for the prize pool, you must provide:

  1. A Working Impact App: A live, deployed URL (e.g., via Lovable or Vercel).

  2. The Impact Narrative: A clear explanation of the social problem you are solving and how your AI solution addresses it.

  3. The AI Stack: Details on the models and tools used to accelerate your build.

  4. GitHub Repository: A link to your public code for technical review by our judges.

  5. Video: A 3-5 minute Video showing how you made your app with features and tools used.


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Prizes

$2,000+ in prizes
+ other prizes
1st place
1 winner

4 Interview cake licenses full access for 7 days ($200)
2 years of premium codecrafters.io membership($720)
1 .xyz domain for one year ($15)

2nd place
1 winner

3 Interview cake licenses full access for 7 days ($150)
1 year of codecrafters.io premium membership ($360)
1 .xyz domain for one year ($15)

3rd place
1 winner

2 Interview cake licenses full access for 7 days ($100)
6 months of codecrafters.io premium membership ($360)
1 .xyz domain for 1 year ($15)

Best UI/UX
1 winner

Interview cake licenses full access for 7 days ($50)
1 .xyz domain for one year ($15)

Best backend/functionality
1 winner

Interview cake licenses full access for 7 days ($50)
1 .xyz domain for 1 year ($15)

Best documentation
1 winner

Interview cake licenses full access for 7 days ($50)

Honorable mentions
5 winners

Special role in the Discord community
1 .xyz domain for 1 year ($15)

Mini challenges
5 winners

Special role in the discord community

Participant Prizes
999 winners

14 days of TRAE pro subscription ($5)
ALL WINNERS WILL RECEIVE THIS TOO

$2000 + worth of subscriptions
$2,000 in cash
1 winner

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Judges

Brad
Programming for 30+ years.Experience in Javascript, React, HTML, CSS, MySQL, MSSQL, enterprise apps.

Ankit Sinha
Senior Software Engineer at Google

Judging Criteria

  • Technical Depth
    How technically advanced or complex is your product?
  • Innovation
    Does this solve a problem in a new way?
  • UI/UX
    Functionality and design of your product
  • Viability
    Could this become a real product?

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