A few weeks ago we hosted an AI hackathon at Y Combinator in San Francisco.
Over 150 people flew in from all around the world, including Greece, Australia, Turkey, New Zealand, and South Africa. Students from many of the top universities in the US traveled to attend as well.
We kicked things off on Friday evening. Participants pitched their ideas, formed over 40 teams, and got to work. By the next afternoon there were 47 projects ready to demo.
Because there were so many projects, we split the teams into three tracks and had a semi-final round of judging. Supabase team members (Ant Wilson, Greg Papas, Long Hoang, Paul Copplestone, and Wen Bo Xie) and YC founders (Amadeo Pellicce, Benjamin Swerdlow, Michael Rosenfield, Nikhara Nirghin, Rahul Asati, and Rohan Das) judged the semi-finals.
Our semi-final judges selected 10 teams then we went next door to watch the presentations on stage. YC Partner Jared Friedman, YC Visiting Partner Eli Brown, Copple, and Ant were there to judge the finals.
After watching all the demos, the judges awarded the following teams:
Overall Winner - Soshi#
A Twitter assistant that browses and generates replies based on your niche to help you grow your Twitter following.
Elijah Muraoka, Michael Long, Soumil Rathi, Veer Doshi
Most Entertaining - Dropout#
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David Head, Kevin Fu, Jake Schwartz
Most Technically Impressive - Explainstein#
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Finn Metz, Sricharan Guddanti, Sveinung Myhre
Most Novel Use of Supabase - Suparova#
A Supabase-powered rover that can speak, recognize faces, and, most importantly, dance!
Kwindla Kramer, Simon Sturmer, Bassim Eledath
We had a blast meeting everyone in the community and look forward to seeing you all at more events.
And we'd like to thank everyone that attended, Anthropic for providing Claude credits to all the teams, and Y Combinator for hosting us. See you next time!
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