🔥 Hackathon for builders and creators-Qoder & Neo4j-$4500 cash prizes

🚀 B.E.L.L.E × Qoder X Neo4j AI Hackathon

Full-Day Hackathon · San Francisco

Build. Experiment. Ship.

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Join B.E.L.L.E Community × Qoder X Neo4j for a full-day, in-person AI hackathon in San Francisco, bringing together developers, founders, designers, and AI builders to explore the next generation of AI-native software development and agentic engineering.

AI is moving beyond simply helping us write code. Today’s AI agents can take on increasingly complex development tasks — from understanding requirements and planning solutions to building, testing, and iterating on software.

At this hackathon, we invite you to put that new way of building into practice. At this hackathon, we invite you to put that new way of building into practice.

Use Qoder to turn an idea into something real — and Neo4j to give it a memory, a knowledge graph, and connected context — in one day.

💰 Cash prizes for winning teams — $4500 total
🎁 Additional prizes & perks - Coming soon.
☕🍕 Coffee & lunch provided
🤝 Meet fellow AI builders, founders & developers
🎤 Demo your project to judges and the community

💫 About Qoder

From Agentic Coding to Agentic Engineering

Qoder is an AI-native development platform designed for a new generation of software development where AI moves beyond code assistance toward autonomous execution.

Instead of simply generating snippets of code, Qoder enables developers to collaborate with AI agents across the development lifecycle — understanding codebases, planning tasks, implementing features, testing solutions, and working through longer, more complex engineering workflows.

Through capabilities such as Agent Mode and Quest, builders can delegate increasingly sophisticated development tasks while staying focused on ideas, product decisions, and outcomes.

At this hackathon, you'll get hands-on experience exploring what happens when AI becomes more than a coding assistant — and starts becoming part of the engineering team.

🔗 About Neo4j
The Graph Database for Intelligent, Connected Applications
Neo4j is the world's leading graph database, purpose-built for working with highly connected data. Instead of storing information in isolated rows and tables, Neo4j models data as nodes and relationships — making it a natural fit for knowledge graphs, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and the memory and reasoning layers behind modern AI agents.
As AI agents take on more complex tasks, they need a way to store context, connect facts, and retrieve relevant knowledge. With graph-powered retrieval (GraphRAG) and native vector search, Neo4j helps builders give their agents structured, queryable memory — so they can reason over relationships, not just retrieve isolated snippets.
At this hackathon, you'll have the chance to explore how graph-native data can make your AI projects smarter, more grounded, and more connected.

🔥 What Will You Build?

The challenge is intentionally open-ended:

Build something useful, creative, or ambitious using Qoder.

Your project could be:

🤖 An autonomous AI agent
🛠️ An AI-powered developer tool
📊 A productivity or workflow application
🎨 A creative AI experience
🏢 An enterprise AI solution
🌎 A product addressing a real-world problem
🚀 Or something we haven't imagined yet

We encourage teams to experiment with ambitious ideas and use AI-native development workflows to move from idea → prototype → working product within the hackathon.

🏆 Prizes

Winning teams will receive cash prizes, with additional prizes and opportunities to be announced.

1st place prize - $2000
2nd place prize - $1500
3rd place prize - $ 1000

Projects will be evaluated based on factors such as:

✨ Innovation — Is the idea original or differentiated?
🧠 Use of AI & Qoder — How effectively does the team leverage AI-native development?
🛠️ Technical Execution — Does the product actually work?
🌎 Real-World Impact — Does it solve a meaningful problem?
🎤 Demo & Storytelling — Can the team clearly communicate what they built and why it matters?

Final judging criteria may be updated before the hackathon.

👥 Who Should Join?

This hackathon is designed for:

• AI engineers & developers

• Software engineers

• Startup founders

• Product builders

• Designers

• Students & researchers

• AI enthusiasts

• Anyone excited about building with AI

You don't need to arrive with a fully formed startup idea.

Come with curiosity, find teammates, and build.

Team formation and networking opportunities will be available at the event.

🗓️ Tentative Schedule

Morning

☕ Registration & Coffee
🎤 Welcome + Opening Remarks
🧠 Qoder Introduction & Technical Workshop
🤝 Team Formation
🚀 Hacking Begins

Midday

🍕 Lunch
💻 Building & Mentorship
🧠 Technical Support

Afternoon

⚡ Final Build Sprint
📤 Project Submission Deadline
🎤 Final Demos & Judging
🏆 Awards & Closing

Detailed timing will be announced closer to the event.

💡 What to Bring

Please bring:

💻 Your laptop + charger
💡 Your ideas
🤝 A collaborative mindset
🚀 Your ambition to build something great

Additional technical resources and hackathon instructions will be shared with registered participants before the event.

🌉 Build With San Francisco's AI Community

Some of the most exciting changes in software development are happening right now.

AI is changing not only what we build, but how we build it.

Join builders, founders, engineers, and AI enthusiasts for a full day of experimentation, collaboration, and shipping.

One day. One idea. Build something real.

👉 Register now — space is limited.
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🧩 About the Hosts
B.E.L.L.E
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We have supported 1,000+ startups, whose founders have collectively raised $1B+ in funding.

Through AI hackathons, founder programs, investor connections, and technology events across San Francisco, Seattle, and beyond, B.E.L.L.E brings together ambitious builders and industry leaders to learn, connect, and create what's next.

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