TBD · Round 8
Theme not announced yet — the seat is booked, stay tuned.
09.11
Shenzhen
Coming soon
Hackathon Track Record
2026 · one arena at a time
07.12
Ho Chi Minh · AWS HQ
🏆 ≈ $5,000
Offctrl.ai × GoGlobal
A hackathon hosted by GenAI Fund with a $1M total prize pool — 13 tracks, 60 teams each. I brought the Offctrl prototype, rebuilt the front end with vm0 and wired in GoGlobal's API, landing about $5,000 in credits.
07.04
Shanghai · Infinite Science
🏆 $750
MBTI Theme · Track Grand Prize
An MBTI-themed hackathon — took the track grand prize plus a smaller award, $750 in total.
06.27
Hangzhou · Pipimao Net Café
Lost by 4 votes
Net-Café Theme Hackathon
Another net-café–themed hackathon. No prize this time — lost by just 4 votes!!!
Online
Singapore
No finals
Finance Theme · Online
An online finance-themed hackathon in Singapore — I didn't put much time in and didn't make the finals.
05.30
Beijing · Wangjing Dark Room Café
🎧 ≈ $400
VM0 Blog & Ghibli × Zuma
A net-café–themed hackathon where I first discovered VM0 and used it to build a blog (that project didn't win). A “Ghibli × Zuma” crossover game I co-built with a friend took a prize — a pair of Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones, about $400.
05.23
Shanghai · Changzhi Rd 505
🥇 Most Practical · $1,000
Hackernews Radar
Helps Hacker News users check in just once a day — it distills the day's news into a GBA-style digest and even predicts where next week's and next month's hot topics will erupt. Won the Most Practical award, $1,000.
04.22
Beijing · EPARK
📱 $40
Offctrl.ai Prototype
Where it all started. A prototype tool for growing Twitter followers — won a $40 phone stand.
2025.07.28
Shanghai · Caohejing Park · AIHackerHouse
Just for fun
One-Day Hackathon · Cryptography
A one-day hackathon. Built a little cryptography project purely for fun.
2024.07.15
Hangzhou · AdventureX (1st)
Attendee
AdventureX · First Edition
Went with friends as a spectator — my first taste of a hackathon.