AI Factory
Native.builder Hackathon
🌎 Online Hackathon | 📅 August 3–10, 2026 | 💻 Powered by native.builder
The official native.builder hackathon, hosted by NativelyAI and lablab.ai.
Join founders, developers, designers, and builders to create real AI-native applications powered by native.builder: from idea to deployed product, fully in the cloud.
💻 This hackathon is fully online. No travel required.
🎁 New participants receive 50 free credits upon signing up — a $10 value to get you started.
About
The AI Factory hackathon is an online event designed to introduce builders to native.builder and show how quickly an idea can become a functional, deployed application using AI agents.
At the center of it: building without limits. Whether you're a founder, developer, designer, or first-time builder, you'll go from an idea to a real, working product, fully in the cloud, with AI agents handling the heavy lifting.
You'll be working with native.builder, describing what you want to create and letting coordinated AI agents help with structure, interfaces, workflows, logic, backend services, data connections, and deployment.
What participants will do
Native.builder turns intent into functional software. During the hackathon, you'll move through the full builder workflow from idea to deployed product.
💡 Describe your idea
Start with a clear problem and a defined target user, then describe what you want to build.
⚡ Generate your application
Native.builder's AI agents generate your initial application structure, interface, and logic.
🎨 Refine design and experience
Iterate on the design and user experience until the product feels right for your users.
🔌 Add workflows and integrations
Connect data, external APIs, authentication, and AI-powered functionality to bring your product to life.
🧪 Test and improve
Test the full workflow end-to-end and refine based on real usage.
🚀 Deploy and share
Publish your finished application to a publicly accessible URL for judges and the world to use.
Build something real
This hackathon prioritizes building over registering. Projects should go beyond a static landing page and demonstrate at least one meaningful workflow, interaction, automation, or AI-powered capability.
Challenge
Build without limits
How quickly can you transform a valuable idea into a functional product that real users can experience?
Build a functional AI-native product that solves a real problem for a clearly defined group of users. Participants should begin with an idea or user need and use native.builder to turn it into a working, deployed application. Projects should go beyond a static landing page and demonstrate at least one meaningful workflow, interaction, automation, or AI-powered capability.
Start Building →Projects with a clear target user, strong practical value, and potential for continued development after the hackathon will be prioritized.
AI Customer Success Workspace
An application that analyzes customer conversations, identifies churn risks, creates follow-up tasks, and recommends responses.
Personal Research Agent
A tool that gathers information from several sources, organizes findings, compares claims, and produces a structured research report.
Startup Validation Platform
An application that helps founders define a customer segment, evaluate competitors, generate interview questions, and create an initial product plan.
Intelligent Operations Dashboard
A business application that connects operational data, highlights anomalies, summarizes performance, and recommends actions.
Adaptive Learning Assistant
An educational application that evaluates a learner's knowledge, generates personalized exercises, and tracks progress over time.
A submission will not be eligible if it is:
Inaccessible to the judging team, primarily built outside native.builder, a direct copy of an existing product without meaningful differentiation, or submitted without a working demonstration.
Technology & Resources
Start Building →Native.builder is an AI-native application development platform that helps users transform intent into functional software. Users describe what they want to create, and coordinated AI agents assist with application structure, user interfaces, workflows, logic, backend services, data connections, and deployment.
This enables founders, developers, product teams, students, and creators to move from an initial idea to a usable application without manually configuring every part of the software stack.
Describe your idea
Describe your product idea in your own words.
Generate the application
Native.builder generates the initial application.
Refine design and UX
Refine the design and user experience.
Add workflows and data
Add workflows, data, integrations, or AI functionality.
Test and improve
Test and improve the application.
Deploy and share
Deploy and share the finished product.
Short tutorials to help participants go from idea → app → workflow → agent → Builder workspace → preview/iterate → deploy → feedback.
Start with an idea, follow the tutorials, understand the Builder workspace, build something useful, deploy it, and share feedback as you go.
Start Your First Native.Builder Project
Prompt to App: Build a Simple AI Tool
Add a Workflow to Your Builder App
Create An Agent-Powered App
Know What You Are Building
Preview, Iterate, and Improve Your App
Deploy and Share Your Native.Builder Project
How to Use Feedback Agent
Speaker: Adam V. Mlady — DevRel, NativelyAI
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Build a 3D Cube in 60 seconds!
Technology Partners
Featherless AI is joining the AI Factory — Native.builder Hackathon to support builders with serverless inference, agent workflows, automation, reasoning, research, and multimodal applications.
Featherless AI provides serverless AI inference for open-source models, helping teams integrate specialized models into agents, workflows, and real-time applications.
- • Add open-source model inference to agent workflows
- • Build research, automation, and extraction agents
- • Power agent reasoning, generation, & specialized model use cases
Credits
$25 per participant
Availability
Up to 500 participants
Access
First-come, first-served
Validity
Pay-per-request, active until credits run out
Promo Code
TBA
Enter this promo code when prompted to activate your access.
• Partner credits, promo codes, and access details are provided directly by the technology partner and may depend on availability, eligibility, and platform terms.
• lablab.ai helps coordinate access, but the platform manages its own credits, limits, billing, API keys, and availability.
Prizes
Prize details are on the way
We're finalizing the prize pool, categories, and rewards for this hackathon. Check back soon, or watch the event page for updates as they're announced.
Please note: Participation in lablab.ai hackathons is voluntary. Prizes and opportunities depend on eligibility, availability, and third-party sponsors, for whom lablab.ai is not responsible. Hackathon rules, prizes, and terms may change or be canceled at our discretion. Submissions must be original and MIT-compliant. Prize distribution may take up to 90 days.
What to Submit
Each submission must include a functional, deployed application built primarily with native.builder, along with the details below.
📋 Project Information
- • A clear description of the problem being solved
- • A clearly defined target user
- • A written explanation of how native.builder was used
🎬 Demonstration
- • A short demonstration video of no more than three minutes
- • At least one complete end-to-end user workflow shown
🔗 Application and Tools
- • The native.builder project or application URL
- • A functional, publicly accessible application
- • A list of any external APIs, datasets, or tools used
Important Requirements
Each submission must meet the following to be eligible:
Eligible submissions
- • Created primarily using native.builder
- • Demonstrates meaningful use of native.builder, not just a landing page
- • Confirmed to have been created during the hackathon period
Not eligible
- • Inaccessible to the judging team
- • Primarily built outside native.builder
- • A direct copy of an existing product without meaningful differentiation
- • Submitted without a working demonstration
Ownership
- • Participants retain ownership of their projects.
- • Participants must have permission to use all submitted assets, datasets, and intellectual property.
How Projects Will Be Evaluated
Submissions will be scored across four dimensions by the judging panel.
How effectively the chosen model(s) are integrated into the solution.
The clarity and effectiveness of the project presentation.
The impact and practical value, considering how well it fits into business areas.
The uniqueness and creativity of the solution, highlighting approaches and ability to demonstrate behaviors.
Everything You Need to Know
AI Factory — Native.builder Hackathon is an online hackathon by NativelyAI. Discover all the relevant details below.
Where and when
This hackathon takes place fully online from August 3–10, 2026.
Who can join?
Founders and aspiring founders, product managers and designers, developers and AI engineers, students and researchers, creators, marketers, and no-code builders, and professionals looking to automate a workflow are all welcome.
What about teams?
If you don't have a team, don't worry! Connect with other participants on the lablab.ai Discord or the NativelyAI Discord to find teammates and bounce around ideas.
How to participate
Build and publish a complete product with native.builder. Describe your idea, generate your application, refine it, and deploy it before the submission deadline.
Get Prepared with Native.builder
To get ready for the hackathon, explore native.builder and read up on how it works. Check out the documentation and getting-started guide for practical steps on describing your idea, generating your application, refining it, and deploying it.
Speakers, Mentors & Judges
Event Schedule
- To be announced
Teams: AI Factory
Check out the roster and find teams to join
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