🌊 TinyFish SG Hackathon: Build on the Open Web
Join us for a full-day AI hackathon in Singapore focused on building autonomous web agents that can browse, search, and extract real-time data from the open web with TinyFish!
Chatbots are cool, but they're limited. We’re bringing the Singapore dev community together to build autonomous web agents — AI that can actually browse, search, and extract the messy parts of the open web in real-time. TinyFish gives your agents the eyes and ears they need to actually do things in production.
Partnering with OpenAI
We're excited to be partnering with OpenAI to fuel this hackathon. Participants will get direct access to OpenAI's latest models and Codex tools to help architect, debug, and ship complex agentic workflows. By combining OpenAI’s world-class reasoning with TinyFish’s web-layer infrastructure, you’ll have everything you need to build the next generation of autonomous agents.
Note: Since we have limited physical space at the venue, we're capping this at 300 hackers. Registration is subject to approval. If you're in a team, every member must register individually to secure a spot.
Agenda
09:00 AM – 09:45 AM: Registration
Check-in, grab your exclusive TinyFish swag, and finalize team formation.
09:45 AM – 10:30 AM: Opening & Technical Workshop
Opening remarks, followed by a deep-dive workshop on TinyFish APIs and OpenAI Codex to get your environment ready.
10:30 AM: Hacking Begins
Ready, set, build! Mentors will be roaming the floor to help with agent architecture.
12:30 PM: Working Lunch
Catered lunch is served. Keep building - maximize your time before the freeze.
04:30 PM: Code Freeze & Submissions
Hard stop for coding. Teams must submit their GitHub repositories and project demos for review.
05:30 PM: Finalist Showdown
The top teams take the main stage to demo their autonomous agents in front of our panel of judges.
06:30 PM: Winner Announcement & Closing
Awards ceremony and closing thoughts on the future of the Open Web.
07:00 PM: Exit
The Challenge
There is no fixed problem statement. We want you to solve a hard, real-world problem using the Open Web as your database.
Whether it's automating deep research, performing high-scale extraction where traditional scrapers fail, or building "eyes and ears" for autonomous agents - if it operates on the live web, it’s fair game. We value technical complexity, utility, and agents that can handle the "messy" parts of the internet.
Need inspiration? You could explore:
🔹 Complex Data Extraction — Structure data from dynamic or anti-bot sources that traditional tools can’t touch.
🔹 Autonomous Research — Build agents that navigate the deep web to synthesize findings in real-time.
🔹 Market & Social Intel — Create "sentries" that monitor pricing, news, or sentiment signals across fragmented platforms.
🔹 Agentic Infrastructure — Build the evals or navigation logic that helps agents operate more reliably on the web.
The only rule: Build something high-leverage that pushes the boundaries of the agentic web.
Prizes
🥇 1st Place
Prizes: Apple Mac Mini (M4 Chip)*
Credits: $10,000 OpenAI API Credits
Access: 6 months of ChatGPT Pro and TinyFish Pro for every member.
🥈 2nd Place
Prizes: Keychron Mechanical Keyboards*
Credits: $7,500 OpenAI API Credits
Access: 6 months of ChatGPT Pro and 3 months of TinyFish Pro for every member.
🥉 3rd Place
Prizes: Logitech MX Master Mice*
Credits: $5,000 OpenAI API Credits
Access: 6 months of ChatGPT Pro and 1 month of TinyFish Pro for every member.
Top winners will receive the Golden Ticket for direct advancement to the TinyFish Accelerator Phase 2. This is a 9-week high-growth program providing a path to $2M in seed funding and technical mentorship to help turn your hack into a production-ready startup.
* Every team member will receive one each.
👀 Secret Spot Prizes
We've also got these fun spot prizes for teams that build something unique. We're keeping the gifts a surprise now, but here is what we're looking for:
🌊 Deep Sea Architect: Technical elegance + "Aha!" moment. For the team that solves a massive, positive problem using the Open Web in a way that feels like magic.
🦄 Most Likely to Be the Next Unicorn: Awarded for the best product vision and PMF (Product-Market Fit).
🔥 Most Likely to Go Viral (for the Wrong Reasons): For the most unhinged, "Black Mirror" style use of autonomous agents.
🐉 The Rube Goldberg / "Most over-engineered solution": For the team that builds an unnecessarily complex (but beautiful) way to solve a problem.
🐟 WTF (What the Fish): Reserved for the most bizarre, hilarious, or "why does this exist?" use case of the day.
Note: We are also providing TinyFish + OpenAI API credits for everyone to fuel their builds during the hackathon, plus the exclusive hackathon swags 👀👀
Event Details
📅 Saturday, March 28
🕘 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
📍 Acacia College, NUS UTown (Physical Presence Required)
🅿️ Parking is available at the Basement of Stephen Riady Centre, 2 Create Way, Singapore 138602
👥 Teams of 1 – 3 builders
Co-hosted with Acacia AI Society