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 · track · open · community · health · plan · shower · experience · system · personalized · neurodivergent · traffic · assistant · web · paper · helping · discovery · management · main · challenges · model · discord · care · check · engineers · students · growing · language · fully · trustworthy · cscs · mentors · gallen · switzerland · award · tracks · showing · cest · released · on-site
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.
- CartWise — Find nearby grocery deals and track your savings. (TechNisa Hacks )
- ResumeFit — Most AI resume tools stop at feedback. ResumeFit closes the loop. Upload a resume, Gemma runs a health check, ranks you against hundreds of real SWE internships with a fit score and matched skills. (305 SummerCodex Edition July 2026)
- 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)
- 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)
- Bridge ADAPTIVE — Bridge Adaptive uses AI to transform standard Islamic lessons into personalized, sensory-friendly experiences for neurodivergent children, adapting to how they learn best. (TechNisa Hacks )
- 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)
- BadDecisions -- Pickle :0 — The desktop assistant you never wanted xD (Shower Hacks)
Judging criteria
Criteria as listed on the official page; weights are not stated there, so they are drawn equal. source ↗
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- Purposeful use of AI - Technical rigour - Value, cost & scalability - Sovereign deployability - Implementation feasibility
Timeline
Submission period (from Devpost): Oct 01 - 16, 2026. Deadline: Deadline: Oct 16, 2026 @ 12:00pm CEST.
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.
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