About the hackathon

Build something useful with AI.

Pixel Forge AI Hackathon is a 1-week online hackathon where developers, designers, creators, and innovators come together to build something awesome using Artificial Intelligence.

The event

One week to turn an idea into reality.

Whether it is an AI agent, a chatbot, an automation tool, a creative AI experience, or something completely unexpected, if it incorporates AI, it belongs here.

You will have 7 days to turn your idea into reality, experiment with new technologies, collaborate with others, and bring your ideas to life.

What you can build

Your medium is open. Your AI should matter.

01 / Autonomous

AI Agents

Build assistants, autonomous workflows, tools, or agents that take meaningful action.

02 / Conversational

Chatbots

Create helpful conversational experiences for education, productivity, support, or creativity.

03 / Productive

Automations

Use AI to save time, reduce repetitive work, and improve everyday routines.

04 / Experimental

Creative AI

Experiment with AI-generated experiences, creative tools, and unexpected ideas.

Rules

Keep it fair. Make it real.

These rules apply to every submission.

  1. Build During the Hackathon

    All projects must be created during the hackathon period. You may brainstorm ideas and plan ahead, but the actual development work should begin once the event starts.

  2. AI Must Be Meaningfully Integrated

    Your submission must include Artificial Intelligence as a core part of the experience. This can be an AI agent, chatbot, automation system, recommendation engine, AI workflow, or another meaningful AI implementation.

    Simply adding AI as a minor feature without clear purpose may affect judging.

  3. Open Source Required

    All submissions must be open source. You are required to provide a public code repository that includes a valid open-source license file for judging and testing purposes.

  4. Work Individually or in Teams

    You may participate solo or in a team. Team members should contribute meaningfully to the project.

  5. Be Respectful & Appropriate

    Projects must not contain hate speech or harassment, harmful, illegal, or malicious content, spam or deceptive behavior, or content intended to exploit or harm users. Keep projects respectful and appropriate for all participants.

  6. No Plagiarism

    Do not copy another project and present it as your own. Using libraries, APIs, frameworks, and open-source tools is completely fine, but your submission should demonstrate original effort and meaningful work.

  7. Existing Projects

    You may use existing tools, frameworks, or starter templates, but the submission must include substantial new work completed during the hackathon.

  8. Submission Requirements

    To qualify for judging, submissions must include a hosted/live project URL, a public open-source repository, a valid open-source license, a demo video around 3 minutes, and a completed Devpost submission.

  9. Have Fun & Experiment

    Try new ideas, explore AI, collaborate, and build something exciting. Creativity is encouraged!