Butterbase Build Night
Come build something real.
Join us for a night of building, learning, and launching at Santa Clara University. Butterbase Build Night is a hands-on hackathon where students team up, create, and compete — with mentorship from the Butterbase team right there in the room with you.
Get a head start at our prep workshop on May 13th, where you'll follow along with the Butterbase team and get familiar with the platform before the big night. Then show up on May 15th ready for a 4-hour hackathon
No coding experience? Perfect. You're still shipping a real product tonight.
Who this is for CS, design, business, bio, or just vibe-coding-curious if you can describe an idea, you can ship one here.
🥇Butterbase:
Butterbase is a backend-as-a-service that lets you build full apps by talking to an AI agent — describe what you want, watch it come together.
Build your project and deploy it on Butterbase (backed by South Park Commons, and partners from a16z and first round capital), and showcase the project you've built. The selected winner will receive $100 in cash from Butterbase.
Sign up at dashboard.butterbase.ai
Generate your key — pick your coding agent (Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code, Windsurf, whatever you're vibing with) and follow the one-step setup
Start building — open your agent and say: "with butterbase, let's build..."
Discord: https://discord.gg/tBbgTCZGh
Schedule:
5:00 – 6:00 pm · Dinner + team formation
6:00 – 8:00 pm · Build
8:00 – 9:00 pm · Demos + judging (3 min per team)
What you walk away with
$20 in Butterbase credits for every participant (covers your first month on our launch plan)
$200 cash for the audience-choice winner (🥇$100, 🥈$50, 🥉$50)
A deployed, working product with your name on it
See you May 15. Let's butter something up.