Brainstorm word cloud
Terms mined today from the brief, current gallery submissions, past winning projects in related Devpost hackathons and the discussion board. Bigger = more frequent (brief and winners weigh more). Click a word to see winning projects that mention it.
AI · agent · trust · learns · maps · management · plan · phone · scan · shower · experience · accessible · system · traffic · assistant · never · community · web · helping · waste · miss · understand · form · social · pick · track · video · tracks
Past winners in related hackathons
Winner-badged projects from ended Devpost hackathons that share a theme with this one. Read a few before you pick an idea.
- SafeHer — Not just the fastest route — the safest one (Zero Origin)
- RoofGrid — Turn any rooftop into a practical, data-driven solar plan. (InfinityX Global Hackathon 2K26)
- Skeptic — Every agent is handed tool documentation and told to trust it. This one doesn't. It experiments on its tools, learns what they really do, drops beliefs that stop being true, and publishes the spec. (Syndicate by Maximor)
- marko — AR maps for commercial spaces, built autonomously from floor plans and a single phone scan. (BigRed//Hacks 2026)
- Shower Souls — Ever want to feel how hard it is to get an SF AI Tech Bro to shower? This game will make you experience it. Spray the larper with a hose until he is clean! (Shower Hacks)
- CaptionForge — Audit, repair, and export accessible captions for online video. (Sound for All)
- Life Agent OS — Life Agent OS is an AI operating system for understanding cities and coordinating humanitarian action. (AI for Social Good: Hack with MLH & DigitalOcean)
- Rugged SystEMS — Navigating to the Unreachable. (Esri's Weekend of Innovation 2026)
- ScaleFlow — ScaleFlow dynamically scales cloud resources during traffic spikes, distributes workloads across healthy instances, monitors infrastructure, and enables automated failure recovery. (Zero Origin)
- MediAudit AI — Snap a photo of your confusing medical bill and then MediAudit AI turns it into plain English, a checklist, and the exact words to say, so anyone can question an unfair charge. (InfinityX Global Hackathon 2K26)
- Loop — An agent that closes the loop on its own mistakes, remembering what worked and skipping what didn't, run after run. (Syndicate by Maximor)
- HoloTouch — make J.A.R.V.I.S a reality on YOUR computer! (BigRed//Hacks 2026)
Judging criteria
Criteria as listed on the official page; weights are not stated there, so they are drawn equal. source ↗
Graded on 100 points basis: 3 - Screenshots and GitHub for project is submitted on time 7 - UI/UX (design) 30 - Creativity of project 30 - Functionality of project 30 - Real world application of project (Does it solve a real-world issue)
Timeline
Submission period (from Devpost): Oct 06 - 12, 2026. Deadline: Deadline: Oct 11, 2026 @ 11:45pm PDT.
How a beginner can ship
- Read the rules page
Check eligibility, team rules and what must be submitted.
- Pick one idea from the word cloud
Choose one problem and one user; cut everything else.
- Build the smallest working version
One flow that works end to end beats five half features.
- Record the demo early
Most Devpost judging leans on the video and description.
From the discussion board
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