World’s Largest Hackathon presented by Bolt

The World’s Largest Hackathon is over, but there is still more to do!

Awards Ceremony

Join us virtually on Saturday, July 26th for the World’s Largest Hackathon Awards Ceremony, a 90-minute virtual event where we’ll be unveiling all the winners, and recognizing the amazing projects that this community built during the hackathon

(Prefer to watch the awards in person? Attend or host an IRL event near you.)

While you're waiting for our judges to review submissions, here's a perfect way to spend some time:

Our friends at DEV launched a writing challenge exclusively for WLH participants!

Winners get $100 gift cards to the Bolt Merch shop + custom mug, with 7 additional mugs for outstanding submissions.All participants get a completion badge on their DEV profile.

Share your story in one of three prompts:

Building with Bolt - Your technical journey
After the Hack - What's next for you and your project
Beyond the Code - The human side of your experience

Deadline: July 31

Take me to the challenge ⇒

What to create

Build a NEW application primarily with Bolt.new!

Start building your app on or after May 30 for it to be considered NEW. Your app can be built completely with Bolt.new or significantly started or built on Bolt.new. Just be sure the publicly deployed version includes a badge that highlights that it is built with Bolt.new (see guidance here).

💰 Challenge Prizes
To be eligible for Challenge Prizes your project must also meet the relevant challenge:

Make More Money Challenge: Use the RevenueCat mobile SDK and RevenueCat Paywall Builder to acquire subscribers in your mobile Bolt.new app.
Custom Domain Challenge: Use Entri to get an IONOS Domain Name and publish your Bolt.new app on the domain.
Blockchain Challenge: Build an app on Algorand where blockchain powers trustless payments, verifiable data, user-owned identity, or programmable digital assets—all with speed, simplicity, and global scale.
Conversational AI Video Challenge: Use Tavus to bring real-time AI video agents to your Bolt.new app.
Voice AI Challenge: Use ElevenLabs to make your Bolt.new app conversational.Deploy Challenge: Use Netlify to deploy your full-stack Bolt.new application.
Deploy Challenge: Use Netlify to deploy your full-stack Bolt.new application.
Silly Sh!t Challenge: Use Reddit’s Developer Platform x Bolt to bring your wackiest, weirdest, and silliest ideas to Reddit in the form of a game.
Startup Challenge: Use Supabase to prep your Bolt.new project to scale to millions.

What to Submit

Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook Video and made public.
Provide a URL to a publicly available version of the project that is fully functional as described for review and judging.
Confirm usage of Bolt.new to build the project and show the ‘Built with Bolt.new’ badge on your public project.
Provide the email used to build the project on Bolt.new. This email must be associated with the usage of Bolt.new to built the submitted project.

$125,000 in cash

1 winner

• $100,000 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$100,000 in cash

1 winner

• $75,000 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$75,000 in cash

1 winner

• $50,000 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$50,000 in cash

1 winner

• $25,000 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$47,500 in cash

1 winner

• $22,500 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$45,000 in cash

1 winner

• $20,000 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$42,500 in cash

1 winner

• $17,500 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$40,000 in cash

1 winner

• $15,000 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$37,500 in cash

1 winner

• $12,500 in USD
• 25,000 in AWS Credits*
• 1 Espresso Monitor

$5,000 in cash

1 winner

$5,000 in USD

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Greg Isenberg
Entreprenuer and Podcaster

Sarah Guo
Investor, Founder, Conviction

Jason Calacanis
VC and Podcaster, This Week in Startups

Grace Ling
Founder, Design Buddies

Catherine Goetze
Creator, CatGPT

Pieter Levels
Tech Entrepreneur

Nina Lu
Investor & Builder, Dell Technologies Capital

Evan You
Founder, Vue js & Vite js

Alex Albert
Head of Relations, Anthropic, Claude

Logan Kilpatrick
Lead Product, Google AI Studio

Angie Jones
VP, Developer Relations, Block

Theo
Influencer

Brianne Kimmel
Founder & Angel Investor, Worklife Ventures

Ben Tossell
Investor, Founder, BensBites

KP
Founder Relations, Paddle

Julius Marminge
OSS Enthusiast

Addy Osmani
Engineering Leader, Google Chrome

CJ
Entreprenuer

Miguel Carranza
CTO & Co-Founder, RevenueCat

Jenny Fielding
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Everywhere Ventures

Alex Reibman
CEO, AgentOps

Brian Whippo
Head of DevRel, Algorand Foundation

Jennifer Looper
Founder, Beanpot Studio

Evan Bacon
Engineering manager, Expo

Matt Biilmann
CEO and Co-founder, Netlify

Moe Katib
CEO/Founder, Pica

Jess Lee
Co-Founder, Forem

Neal McPherson
Head of Product Management, IONOS

Ryan Lambert
Co-Founder Head of Product, River

Serafim Korablev
Co-Founder, 21st.dev

Thor Schaeff
Developer Experience Engineer, ElevenLabs

Erik Nordlander
General Partner, GV

Silvia Oveido Lopez
Product, Growth and Content Executive

Amit Agrawal
Sr GenAI GTM Specialist, AWS

Cody De Arkland
Head of Developer Experience, Sentry

Tyler Shukert
DevRel engineer, Supabase

Kate T
Bolt

Mallory

Donald

Dani

Gabrielle Judge
Creator, Anti Work Girl Boss

Anna Ploegh

Mark Thomas

Ali Afshar

David Kim

Hassaan

Alex - Tavus

Mark Vassilevskiy

Edgar

Potential Impact
How big of an impact could the Project have? How meaningful is the problem that the Project is tackling and how well does it solve it and deliver value? How will this Project resonate to the masses or how viral might this Project become?
Quality of the Idea
How creative and unique is the project? How much of this Project likely already exists in some capacity? Is the problem this Project is tackling, already solved by other offerings in a similar way?
Technological Implementation
Does the project demonstrate quality software development? Does the project leverage Bolt.new offering in an interesting or advanced way? How well thought out is the infrastructure and execution of the code?
Design and User Experience
Is the user experience and design of the project well thought out? Is there a balanced blend of frontend and backend in the software?