Deep Hack #

Anyone can submit, even if you’re not in BLR, India! Remote submissions are most welcome!

Format

Friday 4pm kick-off; briefing
Friday 5pm attendees pitch their ideas; teams form
Friday 6pm get to work!

[note: you’re welcome to stay and work all night but if you need to sleep, please head home then come back)

Saturday, demo day 4pm submit your pitch, judging starts

How can I be involved? #

We need:

• ~100 amazing participants. You’ll be developers, scientists, designers, writers, artists, lawyers, all kinds of careers and specialisms, coming together to hack for 24 hours. Some of you will be students; some will be workers. Some will come with an idea of what you want to make; some won’t. Both are totally OK.
• Demo Audience Demo day is open for all, even non-hackathon participants -- they should register here
• Coaches: we need a handful of experts in art, design, ML, engineering and storytelling who can join us for 2-4 hour shifts to help teams out.
• Sponsors: you make the world go round. Please help us keep this event a nonprofit. Email us at nirant [dot] kasliwal @gmail [dot] com

Demo Submission Deadline: April 1st, 4:00 PM IST #

at this form

Submission Categories #

• Best Prompt Engineering Demo (e.g. LLM apps, browser extensions)
• Best Storytelling Demo (e.g. video, generated art, music, comics) -- we’d love to have designers and artists win this track
• Best AI Devtool Demo (e.g. CLIs, VSCode extensions)
• Replit & Springworks Best AI Infra Demo (e.g. new cloud services, training tools, libraries)
• People’s Choice for best overall Open Source project!

Submission Criteria #

1. You can work solo or in small teams of up to 5 (anything bigger is probably unfair to the others)
2. Project/feature must be new or never-before-launched (a.k.a. does not strictly have to be started this week)
3. Remote projects should be open source or live (no waitlistware please!)

Submission Process #

Submit the Google form (submit early so we can gauge how it’s going, minor last minute revisions are fine)

In person: Please be at the Deep Hack Demo Day (register here) from 4.30pm onward. Aim to do a ~5 minute demo + Q&A.

Remote: Record a ~2-3 minute demo and remember to add at the end of the Google form.

Code of Conduct #

By participating in the hackathon in any capacity, you agree to adhere to the Hasgeek’s Code of Conduct

Basic demo format (optional; get creative/entertaining/weird if you like!) #

• Motivation: Why you chose to explore this idea
• Walkthrough: Show what it does
• Implementation: Discuss how it works, bonus for what didn’t work
• Speculation: Future directions/where this could go?

Need Ideas, Inspiration, Resources?
Generative AI Ideas

Jury #

• Amod Malviya (आमोद मालवीय), previously CTO at Flipkart, Co-founder at Udaan
• Manisha Raisinghani, founder or LogiNext, Forbes Trailblazers
• Sunit Singh founder of Fincent Inc and previously Design Leadership at Cleartrip, Ola
• Toshi Prakash, Director of Product Management at Walmart, via Locus.sh and others

Appendix #

• Ask Questions on the WhatsApp group here
• We also hosted Deep Coffee on Feb 24, see some select demos here
• Credits: This is shamelessly remixed from a swyx post.