Hacklanta

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 · plan · helping · waste · management · complete · application · dev · recruiting opportunities · competition tracks · builders · expect · energy · workshops · challenges · four · requirement · participate · participant

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)
• 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)
• SmartServe AI — SmartServe AI predicts food demand and recommends preparation quantities using AI, helping restaurants reduce food waste, lower costs, and plan smarter. (Zero Origin)
• Camleaf — An offline progressive web app to diagnose crop leaf diseases in <60 milliseconds with zero cell signal and calculate knapsack sprayer doses for rural farmers. (InfinityX Global Hackathon 2K26)
• Reckon — Improper payments cost governments and companies hundreds of billions a year. Reckon reads every alert, dismisses the explainable ones, and sends the rest to a named approver with evidence. (Syndicate by Maximor)
• Cartographer — Find the everyday things maps miss. Cartographer uses AI to search street-level photos for bike racks, benches, curb ramps, and more, then maps possible matches with photos you can check. (BigRed//Hacks 2026)

Judging criteria

Criteria as listed on the official page; weights are not stated there, so they are drawn equal. source ↗

Timeline

Submission period (from Devpost): Oct 09 - 11, 2026. Deadline: Deadline: Oct 11, 2026 @ 9:00am EDT.

How a beginner can ship

1. Read the rules page

   Check eligibility, team rules and what must be submitted.

2. Pick one idea from the word cloud

   Choose one problem and one user; cut everything else.

3. Build the smallest working version

   One flow that works end to end beats five half features.

4. Record the demo early

   Most Devpost judging leans on the video and description.