We're opening 8090's Redwood City office for a night of building with AI.

 

EVOLVE is a 20-hour hackathon on November 13 to 14. The mission: build your own Software Factory.

 

What if AI agents could take software from idea to implementation, while working from the full context of the organization? Design a system that orchestrates agents, builds custom tools, automates workflows, and uses the knowledge from across tickets, codebases, previous coding sessions, emails, chats, and meeting transcripts.

 

Build a team of agents that takes a ticket to a pull request. Create frameworks for coordinating autonomous coding agents. Develop tools that help engineers understand and modernize massive legacy codebases. Use a context layer to give agents shared memory: understand dependencies, trace what changes affect, and make decisions with the complete picture. Take an idea, push the limits of what's possible, and ship something real.

 

You'll get access to Software Factory and support from 8090's engineering team throughout the build. We'll finish with live demos, judging, Q&A with 8090 members of technical staff, and prizes. Chamath Palihapitiya is scheduled to join the ceremonies.

 

HydraDB, Composio, Vercel and ElevenLabs are supporting the event.

 

$10K+ in credits and prizes for the top 3 winning teams. Prizes include Mac Minis, AirPods Max and more.

 

Join the Discord for all Q&A, announcements, and judging rooms and time slots: https://discord.gg/mvgbmWSz

 

Schedule (PT)

Friday, Nov 13

• 5:30 to 6:30 PM: Doors open, check-in, snacks (bring a government-issued photo ID)

• 6:30 to 7:10 PM: Opening ceremony

• ~7:10 PM: Hacking starts; team formation for solo attendees 7:10 to 7:30 PM

• 7:15 to 7:30 PM: Dinner

• 12:00 AM: Midnight snack and break

 

Saturday, Nov 14

• 9:00 AM: Breakfast

• 1:00 PM: Lunch

• 3:00 PM: 30-minute warning

• 3:15 PM: Devpost submissions close

• 3:30 PM: Code freeze. Room and time slots posted on Discord.

• 3:45 to 5:05 PM: Judging in 3 rooms

• ~5:00 PM: Pizza dinner

• 5:45 to 6:30 PM: Closing ceremony and winners

• 7:00 PM: Event ends

Requirements

What to build: A project on the theme "Build your own software factory": something that helps software build software, automating real parts of building, testing, shipping or maintaining code.

 

What to submit (by 3:15 PM PT Saturday, Nov 14):

• Project name and team members (teams of up to 3; solo entries allowed; each person on one team only)

• Project description

• Link to your public source code repository, published under the MIT License with an MIT LICENSE file and accurate copyright notices

• A short demo video (required for sponsor prizes; judges also use it to break ties, and winning videos may be played at closing)

• In your README: list the open-source libraries, APIs, AI tools and sponsor tools you used, with their licenses, and disclose anything your team made before the event

 

Rules to know:

• Your project must be substantially built during the event. You may plan and sketch ideas beforehand.

• No changes to the code after the code freeze at 3:30 PM PT. Late submissions are not judged.

• Never publish API keys, credentials or access tokens in your repository or anywhere else.

• To be judged, your team must present in person at its scheduled time (room and slot posted on Discord by 3:30 PM PT).

• Judges may review your repository and commit history to check what was built at the event.

 

Eligibility:

• You must be 18 or older, accepted through the official registration (Luma), signed up through the EVOLVE Hacker Agreements form, and checked in on site.

• Mentors, judges, 8090 employees and their immediate families cannot win prizes.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

4 non-cash prizes
1st Place
1 winner

Includes a chance for the winning team to do 1:1 pitches with Chamath Palihapitiya. First place also demos on stage at the closing ceremony. Full prize details announced at the opening ceremony.

2nd Place
1 winner

Full prize details announced at the opening ceremony.

3rd Place
1 winner

Full prize details announced at the opening ceremony.

Best ElevenLabs Project
1 winner

For the best project built with ElevenLabs. Full prize details announced at the opening ceremony.

Judges

Judging Criteria

  • Technical execution
    How well it's built and how elegant the engineering is. Works end to end in the live demo, with good use of agents, APIs and sponsor tools. Scored 1 to 5 (1 = weak, 3 = solid, 5 = outstanding); equally weighted.
  • Enterprise impact and utility
    Would a real engineering team use this? A clear user, a real pain point, and a path to running on real codebases. Scored 1 to 5 (1 = weak, 3 = solid, 5 = outstanding); equally weighted.
  • Creativity
    A fresh idea or approach, not a copy of an existing tool. Scored 1 to 5 (1 = weak, 3 = solid, 5 = outstanding); equally weighted.
  • Demo and pitch
    Clear problem, clear demo, and it's obvious what was built this weekend. Scored 1 to 5 (1 = weak, 3 = solid, 5 = outstanding); equally weighted. Theme fit is pass/fail; see Rules. Judges' decisions are final.

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

Invite others to compete

Hackathon sponsors