https://doom2quake.com Build writeups and strategy guides from doom2quake, plus how to win every tracked hackathon and bounty. https://doom2quake.com/blog/what-were-building-this-season https://doom2quake.com/blog/what-were-building-this-season Post Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short roundup of the agent-first hackathons doom2quake is targeting this season, and how we're picking which ones to enter. https://doom2quake.com/blog/atlas-autonomous-data-ops-agent-all-things-agentic https://doom2quake.com/blog/atlas-autonomous-data-ops-agent-all-things-agentic Writeup Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A build writeup of Atlas, an autonomous data-ops agent on Google ADK, Gemini, and BigQuery. The predict, detect, diagnose, quantify, remediate, verify loop, and what we learned shipping it under a deadline. https://doom2quake.com/blog/how-we-read-a-hackathon-like-a-sponsors-showcase https://doom2quake.com/blog/how-we-read-a-hackathon-like-a-sponsors-showcase Guide Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical, first-person strategy guide to judging rubrics, prize stacks, and eligibility gotchas. How we decode what a hackathon is really rewarding before we write a line of code. https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/prometheus-august-ai-challenge-devpost-31059 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/prometheus-august-ai-challenge-devpost-31059 The Prometheus August AI Challenge: $1,500 in prizes! Join the next generation of AI and Machine Learning innovators.. $1,500 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-30 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/agents-for-humans-hackathon-devpost-30317 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/agents-for-humans-hackathon-devpost-30317 Build an AI agent with Strands Agents SDK that handles repetitive tasks. $40,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-14 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/aws-trainium-frontier-competition-devpost-30859 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/aws-trainium-frontier-competition-devpost-30859 Co-design models and kernels on purpose-built AI chips. $40,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-10-01 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/all-things-agentic-hackathon-devpost-30845 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/all-things-agentic-hackathon-devpost-30845 Ready, Set, Agent! Build next-generation agents that run in the background, handle the heavy lifting of massive datasets, and automate complex workflows asynchronously.. Weighted toward Innovation & Operational Utility (40%) and Architectural Discipline & Tech Stack (30%). Prioritise those to win.. $180,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-31 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/call-e-your-code-is-calling-devpost-30579 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/call-e-your-code-is-calling-devpost-30579 Turn your code into an AI agent that makes real phone calls.. $10,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-14 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/agentic-cinema-the-blockbuster-hackathon-devpost-30721 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/agentic-cinema-the-blockbuster-hackathon-devpost-30721 Lights. Camera. Code.. $75,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-09 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/road-to-devcon-nitk-surathkal-devfolio-dea350fe852e4dc8a1bcf2e7f38601a9 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/road-to-devcon-nitk-surathkal-devfolio-dea350fe852e4dc8a1bcf2e7f38601a9 Deadline: 2026-08-23 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hefty-hacks-devfolio-179b52290f954c6e88325551b1859d29 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hefty-hacks-devfolio-179b52290f954c6e88325551b1859d29 Deadline: 2026-10-31 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/the-great-agent-hackathon-devfolio-385af80a4fbb41928a1dc5de4a941f4b https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/the-great-agent-hackathon-devfolio-385af80a4fbb41928a1dc5de4a941f4b Deadline: 2026-09-26 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/muba-blockchain-hackathon-devfolio-c9616c07274742db8c57310b5d61adc7 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/muba-blockchain-hackathon-devfolio-c9616c07274742db8c57310b5d61adc7 Deadline: 2026-09-05 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/boss-battle-devfolio-ccf87307485e40fa8eed85cc9e9791a2 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/boss-battle-devfolio-ccf87307485e40fa8eed85cc9e9791a2 Deadline: 2026-10-05 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/opencv-ai-competition-2026-powered-by-aws-devpost-30984 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/opencv-ai-competition-2026-powered-by-aws-devpost-30984 $12,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-10-27 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/proof-of-possible-2026-devpost-30972 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/proof-of-possible-2026-devpost-30972 $9,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-22 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/nextstep-hacks-2026-devpost-30878 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/nextstep-hacks-2026-devpost-30878 $1,750 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-23 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/devnetwork-api-cloud-ai-hackathon-2026-devpost-29242 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/devnetwork-api-cloud-ai-hackathon-2026-devpost-29242 $39,500 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-03 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/dorahacks-buidl-hackathons-rolling-grants-rolling-dorahacks-io-dorahacks-buidl-hackathons-rolling-grant https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/dorahacks-buidl-hackathons-rolling-grants-rolling-dorahacks-io-dorahacks-buidl-hackathons-rolling-grant Varies per hackathon; rolling grants monthly pools up to ~5,000 USDT (300-1,000 USDT/project) in prizes https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/the-rice-university-urban-sustainability-hackathon-devpost-30371 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/the-rice-university-urban-sustainability-hackathon-devpost-30371 $17,500 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-18 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/volthacks-devpost-29884 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/volthacks-devpost-29884 $32,785 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-05 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/revenuecat-shipaton-2026-devpost-29969 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/revenuecat-shipaton-2026-devpost-29969 $685,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-10-01 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/galuxium-nexus-v2-devpost-29411 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/galuxium-nexus-v2-devpost-29411 $2,600 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-31 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ieee-climatechain-global-hackathon-devpost-29114 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ieee-climatechain-global-hackathon-devpost-29114 $3,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-10-25 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ai-builders-hackathon-devpost-30452 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ai-builders-hackathon-devpost-30452 $33,900 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-15 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/oneaquahealth-ieee-global-hackathon-devpost-29359 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/oneaquahealth-ieee-global-hackathon-devpost-29359 $3,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-10-01 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ethonline-2026-ethglobal-ethonline2026 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ethonline-2026-ethglobal-ethonline2026 Deadline: 2026-09-16 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ethglobal-tokyo-2026-ethglobal-tokyo2026 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ethglobal-tokyo-2026-ethglobal-tokyo2026 Deadline: 2026-09-27 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ethglobal-mumbai-ethglobal-mumbai https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/ethglobal-mumbai-ethglobal-mumbai Deadline: 2026-11-08 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/event-contracts-hackathon-dorahacks-event-contracts https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/event-contracts-hackathon-dorahacks-event-contracts $5,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-08 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/delphi-agent-arena-competition-dorahacks-delphi-agent-competition https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/delphi-agent-arena-competition-dorahacks-delphi-agent-competition $10,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-23 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/weex-ai-wars-ii-rise-of-intelligence-dorahacks-weex-ai-wars2 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/weex-ai-wars-ii-rise-of-intelligence-dorahacks-weex-ai-wars2 $200,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-31 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/decentraland-friendzone-mobile-buildathon-dorahacks-friendzone https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/decentraland-friendzone-mobile-buildathon-dorahacks-friendzone $8,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-04 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/anna-ai-app-builder-program-dorahacks-2349 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/anna-ai-app-builder-program-dorahacks-2349 $6,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-11-30 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/evorozen-apex-nextgen-ai-buildathon-dorahacks-evorozen-apex-buildathon https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/evorozen-apex-nextgen-ai-buildathon-dorahacks-evorozen-apex-buildathon Deadline: 2026-09-21 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/buidl-ctc-2026-fall-buidl-for-the-real-world-dorahacks-buidl-ctc-2026-fall https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/buidl-ctc-2026-fall-buidl-for-the-real-world-dorahacks-buidl-ctc-2026-fall $15,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-09-06 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/creative-minds-jam-1-hong-kong-dorahacks-creativeminds https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/creative-minds-jam-1-hong-kong-dorahacks-creativeminds $10,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-28 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/algobharat-regional-hackathons-dorahacks-algobharat-regional-hack https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/algobharat-regional-hackathons-dorahacks-algobharat-regional-hack Deadline: 2026-12-31 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/munichtech-innovation-hackathon-2026-build-applied-solutions-dorahacks-2019 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/munichtech-innovation-hackathon-2026-build-applied-solutions-dorahacks-2019 Deadline: 2026-09-20 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/bli-legal-tech-hackathon-2-dorahacks-legal-hack-2026 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/bli-legal-tech-hackathon-2-dorahacks-legal-hack-2026 $50,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-11-01 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackathon-2026-challenge-dorahacks-hackathon2026challenge https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackathon-2026-challenge-dorahacks-hackathon2026challenge $1,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-12-18 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/mdba-youth-blockchain-hackathon-dorahacks-mdba-youth https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/mdba-youth-blockchain-hackathon-dorahacks-mdba-youth $50,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-11-01 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/weex-ai-wars-ii-vs-ai-dorahacks-weex-ai-wars-2-tw https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/weex-ai-wars-ii-vs-ai-dorahacks-weex-ai-wars-2-tw $200,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-31 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/weex-ai-wars-ii-vs-ai-dorahacks-weex-ai-wars-2-cn https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/weex-ai-wars-ii-vs-ai-dorahacks-weex-ai-wars-2-cn $200,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-08-31 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/prototype-today-product-tomorrow-marathonn-dorahacks-1565 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/prototype-today-product-tomorrow-marathonn-dorahacks-1565 Deadline: 2026-10-04 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hacktrent-2026-dorahacks-2285 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hacktrent-2026-dorahacks-2285 $2,000 in prizes. Deadline: 2026-11-09 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/gnss-4-for-space-applications-in-africa-g4-saa-dorahacks-satnav https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/gnss-4-for-space-applications-in-africa-g4-saa-dorahacks-satnav Deadline: 2026-09-26 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/midnight-virtual-hackathon-august-mlh-midnight-virtual-hackathon-august https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/midnight-virtual-hackathon-august-mlh-midnight-virtual-hackathon-august Deadline: 2026-08-30 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/pec-hacks-4-0-mlh-pec-hacks-4-0 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/pec-hacks-4-0-mlh-pec-hacks-4-0 Deadline: 2026-08-30 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/global-hack-week-data-mlh-global-hack-week-data https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/global-hack-week-data-mlh-global-hack-week-data Deadline: 2026-09-17 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackrice-mlh-hackrice-71 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackrice-mlh-hackrice-71 Deadline: 2026-09-13 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackmty-2026-mlh-hackmty-2026 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackmty-2026-mlh-hackmty-2026 Deadline: 2026-09-13 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackwestx-26-mlh-hackwestx-26 https://doom2quake.com/hackathons/hackwestx-26-mlh-hackwestx-26 Deadline: 2026-09-13