Talk to Users Hackathon

Most hackathons end with a demo to judges who've never touched your product. This one ends with real users/ICP telling you what they actually think, while you still have time to fix it. THE DEAL 20 teams. All technical builders. One vertical. 12 hours to build a feature that matters. $10K+ in prizes. Million of Credits. THE TWIST You're not just building blind and hoping. With Sense AI, every team gets matched to real ICP testers to user test while they're building in minutes. Ship something, get it in front of the people it's actually for, hear what they say, iterate. Repeat. It just makes Sense. ALONG THE WAY 1:1 office hours with a16z speedrun and YC founders on what it actually means to build human-centered products and what most teams get wrong. a16z Speedrun & YC Founder Mentors: - Kieran John Keenan, CTO, Athena (sr007) - Abel Dagne, CEO, Oasiz (sr006) - Alspencer Omondi, CEO, PreMan (sr007) - Gal Dayan, CTO, Dial (sr004) - Omri Ben Shoham, CPO, Dial (sr004) - Ana Yoon Faria de Lima, CTO, Pavoot (YC P26) - Anthea Guo, CTO, Lumeria (YC S26) - Nick Walker, CEO, MochaCare (YC W26) SPONSORS Base44 Base44 is a Wix company and AI app builder that turns ideas into production-ready applications. It handles backend, authentication, and infrastructure so builders can go from prompt to working product quickly. Talk to Users will include a Base44 track with a grand prize. Bright Data Bright Data is a private equity-backed growth-stage company providing enterprise public web data infrastructure. Their platform enables organizations to collect and access structured, reliable web data at scale for AI systems, research, and business intelligence. Stripe Stripe is a Series I financial infrastructure company that powers payments and financial services for businesses online. Their platform helps startups and enterprises accept payments, manage billing, and move money worldwide. Cognition Cognition is a Series D applied AI lab building the future of software…

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