About the challenge
Germany's Biggest AI Hackathon — Build cool sh*t with Cursor and AI
Join 400+ builders for 2 days of focused creation at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. No technical background required — just bring your laptop and ship.
What's Included
- All meals, drinks, and snacks throughout the weekend
- $100K+ in free API credits from leading AI companies
- $280K+ total value in perks, credits, and cash prizes
Requirements
Evaluation Criteria
- 25% — Product Viability & Market Potential
- 25% — Technical Innovation & AI Implementation
- 20% — Execution & Working Demo
- 15% — User Experience & Design
- 15% — Presentation
Prizes
Best Project Overall
Powered by Plancraft and Superhuman
1st: $5,000 cash + $3,500 Cursor credits + $10,000 OpenAI credits + $15,000 Gemini credits + 3 months of ElevenLabs Pro for each team member + 3 months of Hume AI Pro + 1 year of Miro Team + 1 year of Superhuman Pro + 1 month of Manus Pro (incl. 40,000 tokens) + 3 months of MiniMax Max Coding
2nd: $5,000 OpenAI credits + $1,000 Cursor credits + $5,000 Gemini credits + 2 months of Hume AI Pro + 3 months of Superhuman Pro + 1 month of Manus Pro (incl. 40,000 tokens) + 3 months of MiniMax Max Coding
3rd: $1,000 OpenAI credits + $500 Cursor credits + $1,000 Gemini credits + 1 month of Hume AI Pro + 1 month of Superhuman Pro + 1 month of Manus Pro (incl. 40,000 tokens) + 3 months of MiniMax Max Coding
Best use of Gemini API
$10,000 in Gemini credits
Best use of Antigravity
$5,000 in Gemini credits
Best use of Nano Banana
$5,000 in Gemini credits
Best project built with ElevenLabs
6 months of the Scale tier for each team member (11+ million characters)
Best use of n8n
1 year Pro license
Best use of Manus
$1,000 cash
Best use of LangChain
$2,000 in credits
Best build with v0
$2,000 in v0 credits
Best use of MiniMax API
$500 cash + $1,000 in API credits
Judges
Sumanth
Adobe
Divyarani
Alacriti (ex-Square)
Gokul
Amazon
Amulya
Apple
Kavitha
Ascendion/Santander
Amit
BlackRock
Rohan
Coursera
Gauri
Doordash
Bhavuk
Google
Juan
Google
Saumya
Google
Mori
hume
Tanmay
LinkedIn
Madhvesh
Mastercard
Rohil
Meta
Saish
Netflix
Arun
Oracle
Alexander
Plancraft
Carlos
ReMatter
Lior
Replika
Robert
SAP
Mari
self-employed
Kaushik
Snowflake
Andrey
Supabase
Vivek
Vanguard
Navdeep
Walmart
Judging Criteria
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Product Viability & Market Potential
Could this become a real product or company? Clear problem for real users? -
Technical Innovation & AI Implementation
Creative use of AI? Strong sponsor tool integration? Novel approach? -
Execution & Working Demo
Does it actually work? How complete? Stable during the demo? -
User Experience & Design
Intuitive interface? Good user flow? Visually polished? -
Presentation
Clear problem story? Engaging video? Well-structured pitch?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager