Hackation · Hall of Fame

Two days in.
Working products out.

Every AI Vibe Hackathon starts with a real challenge and ends with running software, pitched live to a jury. This is what teams have shipped so far — and what your challenge could look like next.

4Hackathons
179Builders
35+Working prototypes
48hIdea → demo
A team pitching their prototype to jury and audience at the ZDI Ideenlabor Würzburg
Live demos at the ZDI Ideenlabor, Würzburg — every team presents running software.
Sponsored challenge

AI Vibe Hackathon #4

June 25–26, 2026 · ZDI Ideenlabor Würzburg · Finale of AI Week Mainfranken
The challenge

Putting Mainfranken on the AI Map

How do you make the region's IT, founder and AI events visible, findable and connected — for people and for AI systems? Seven teams, seven independent answers in 48 hours.

7 teams7 running demos~30 participants
Eventomat — event detail view with match percentage
🥇 1st place

Eventomat

A personalized event recommendation portal, end-to-end: it sources events from 15 regional websites, onboards new members in minutes, and delivers WhatsApp-first recommendations with match percentages and an interactive map. The most production-ready build of the day.

EventRadar — regional event map
🥈 2nd place

EventRadar

A regional event aggregator with monthly calendar, map, per-user topic weighting and an installable PWA — built by a documented master-plus-three-worker agent orchestration.

AIme EventMCP — AI assistant querying events
🏆 Audience award

AIme EventMCP

An event platform built to be queried by AI systems: events, connections and RSVPs exposed as an MCP server, so any AI assistant can answer "Is Martin attending the next KI Stammtisch?"

Beyond the podium
StadtSignal · event scanner agents with map & radar NotifyMe · community profiles + Franken-Scout chat + 2 more working prototypes
Sponsored challenge

AI Vibe Hackathon #3

March 5–6, 2026 · ZDI Ideenlabor Würzburg
The challenge

MISSION: 100K — Hack Your Future

How do you playfully motivate young people to save and invest? Six teams turned the question into six working apps — all demoed live to the jury and the audience.

6 teams6 working apps~40 participants
100.000 EUR Quest — game view
🥇 1st place

100.000 EUR Quest

Team Lucid Paths

A finance role-playing game where real saving behavior drives in-game progress. Compound interest is the actual game engine: save more, level up faster. Mobile-first, twelve game zones — the clear favorite of both jury and audience.

Swipe or Save — starting profile
🥈 2nd place

Swipe or Save

Tinder mechanics for financial decisions: swipe through 30+ everyday scenarios and watch net worth and "Life Score" react in real time.

VR Money Mates — savings dashboard
🥉 3rd place

VR Money Mates

The lowest-barrier entry: one tap marks what you skip today — coffee, shoes, eating out — and your savings grow live toward the €100,000 goal.

Beyond the podium
SaveUp · gamified savings, Duolingo-style, DE/EN Aimy · AI finance coach with S&P 500 trading simulation Pirate Hunter · level-based investing education platform
Open challenge

AI Vibe Hackathon #2

November 20–21, 2025 · Würzburg
The format

Your idea, 36 hours, a working alpha

Before sponsored challenges, teams brought their own problems. 55 participants built functional alpha versions in 36 hours — some tested directly with real users during the event.

55 participants36h build timealphas tested with real users
Cookini — cooking-persona avatar selection screen
🥇 1st place

Cookini

Ocucídia Maxaieie

The DuoLingo of cooking: learning to cook in a playful, AI-assisted way. Rebuilt from scratch after finishing second at Hackathon #1, sharpened by feedback from the Würzburg Accelerator.

AIMergency Room — landing page for the AI clinical-case training simulator
🥈 2nd place (tied)

AIMergency Room

Philipp Sodmann & Dominik Benchert

LLM-based emergency-room simulation that trains young doctors through AI role-play — built to make doctors more competent, not dependent.

Screenshot coming soon
🥈 2nd place (tied)

Ocelo

Raphael Lott

Project management built for music labels and creatives.

Beyond the podium
Barcamp Manager · 🥉 tied — finished 20 seconds before the pitch, ran flawlessly Social Health & Wellbeing App · 🥉 tied — Walk & Talk for mental health
Where it started

AI Vibe Hackathon #1

July 30–31, 2025 · ZDI Gründerlabor Würzburg
The format

From zero to 16 product demos

The inaugural event: 54 participants, two days, the latest AI tools — and by the end, 16 working product demos on stage. The energy and quality set the tone for everything that followed.

54 participants16 product demos<36h idea → demo
Your challenge here

The next podium could be answering your question.

Sponsor a challenge and get 5–7 working prototypes against your real problem — in 48 hours, in front of the regional tech community.

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