So basically, after the New Year, I randomly came up with an idea to organize my 2nd hackathon.
Why tho?
I wanted to go viral. LFG.
FYI: Back on January 27, I organized my first-ever hackathon → Open-source AI Hackathon. I got pretty much dope results, especially considering it was my first time ever organizing a hackathon.
It’s January 3rd. I created a page on Devpost, designed some viral posters, and just posted them on LinkedIn and X (Twitter).
Here’s the first post → LinkedIn | X (Twitter)
and the second one → LinkedIn
Both went pretty viral.
The hackathon title was “AI Vibe Coding Hackathon”.
Which means it’s totally open for Tech and Non-Tech builders. People who use AI in their daily life or just build things. People who use Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, v0, etc. to vibe-code apps. So yeah. haha)).
Yep, my idea worked out.
After a day or two (January 5), the Head of Growth at ElevenLabs personally reached out to me and proposed sponsorship. At first, I felt crazy—like bro, it’s ElevenLabs, the most viral AI voice company on the market. We discussed a bit, and then I agreed.
I called my bro Asadbe, the guy I design crazy things with.
We did a poster for the ElevenLabs announcement. It went insanely viral → LinkedIn.
Btw, quick info: Open Community is the main organizer of the hackathon, and ANORA Labs is the media partner / (aka Presented by ANORA Labs – AI Creative Canvas.)
Tbh, we started getting new sponsors every day.
Everyday new dope and abstract posters.
We were getting 100+ new participants every 3 days. Then it doubled.
(Currently close to 700.)