100+ curated ideas, production-ready tech stack boilerplates, and pitch deck blueprints used by winning teams. Everything you need from zero to demo.
Filter by track, pick your favourite, and start building in minutes. Each idea ships with scope and time estimates.
Pre-configured stacks battle-tested at hackathons. Clone, customise, and launch your MVP before lunch.
App Router, Server Components, streaming. The gold standard for hackathon web apps.
Pixel-perfect UI in minutes. Pre-built accessible components, zero design decisions needed.
Minimal, zero-boilerplate state management. Much faster to set up than Redux in a 24hr hack.
Postgres + Auth + Realtime + Storage in one dashboard. 5-minute setup, no DevOps needed.
Push to GitHub → live in 60 seconds. Global CDN, preview URLs, zero config. Judges love it.
Drop-in auth with Google, GitHub, Magic Links. Beautiful UI components. 10 min integration.
GPT-4o for quality, Groq for blazing-fast inference. Use llama-3.1-70b free on Groq during hacks.
Chains, agents, RAG pipelines. Connect LLMs to any data source in under 50 lines.
Vector search for RAG. Pinecone for external DB; pgvector inside Supabase for simpler setups.
useChat, useCompletion hooks. Streaming responses with 5 lines of code. Works with any LLM.
If the team prefers Python: FastAPI + uvicorn = async endpoints in minutes. Deploy on Railway.
Voice input + output. Build voice-first AI apps that stand out in demos every time.
iOS + Android from one codebase. Expo Go lets judges test on their phone without installing anything.
Tailwind CSS syntax for React Native. If you know web, you'll ship mobile UI instantly.
Stack, tab, and drawer navigators. The de-facto standard — well-documented, zero surprises.
Firestore + Auth + Cloud Functions. Realtime sync out of the box. Perfect for social or collab apps.
Push notifications in 30 min. Dramatically improves demo impact — judges love live notifications.
On-device vision APIs. QR scanning, face detection, text recognition — all offline.
Ultra-fast, edge-ready web framework. Runs on Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Node. Tiny bundle.
Auto-generated OpenAPI docs, Pydantic validation, async out of the box. Best Python choice.
End-to-end type safety between Next.js and your backend. Zero API schema duplication.
Instant Postgres, generous free tier, branching for testing. No spinning up EC2 instances.
Connect GitHub, get a URL in 2 minutes. Free tier is enough for a 24–48hr hackathon demo.
Serverless Redis for rate limiting, queues, and caching. HTTP SDK — works in any environment.
The anatomy of every first-place presentation. Follow this structure and you're already 80% of the way there.
Practice until you finish 30 seconds early. Rushing = panic = poor impression. Judges almost always cut overtime presenters.
A working demo — even with rough UI — beats a polished deck every time. Build first, beautify second, slide-ify last.
Write down every hard question and practice answering. "How is this different from X?" and "What's the business model?" are guaranteed.
A proven timeline from kickoff to final demo. Check things off as you go.
Set your hackathon countdown and stay on track.
Pick an idea, grab a boilerplate, and build something the judges will never forget. The only resource you truly need is momentum.
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