​The Weirdest Hackathon on the Internet

​A 48-hour online hackathon for the gloriously, deliberately weird.

​Hosted by OnlyWorks × Orbis
Fully online. Free to enter.

​Most hackathons want you to pitch a startup.

​This one doesn't.

​Build the project you'd never put on a résumé — the cursed, the useless, the beautifully pointless thing you've been too embarrassed to ship. Then prove it ran (at least once) and demo it live to a room full of strangers.

​The Three Weird Laws

• ​Build the thing you'd never put on a résumé.

• ​Prove it ran — at least once. Demos > slides.

• ​Demo it to a stranger.

​Four Flavours of Weird

​Useless Engineering

​Leaves the world exactly as broken as it found it.

​Cursed Technology

​The demo where a judge says:

​"I hate that this works."

​Beautiful Trash

​Ugliest input. Heart-stoppingly elegant output.

​Demo Theatre

​The demo is the project.

​How It Works

​Thursday, June 18 · 9:00 AM ET

​Kickoff livestream + theme reveal. The 48-hour clock begins.

​Build for 48 Hours

• ​Fully online

• ​Solo or teams of up to 4

• ​On your own machine

• ​AI assistance allowed

​Saturday, June 20 · 12:00 PM ET

​Submissions close.

​Saturday Evening we will have live-streamed finals.

​Finalists will demo their projects to the judges and a livestream full of strangers through an unmarked URL.

​Prizes

​Grand Prize — "Verified Weird"

• ​$500 cash

• ​Featured showcase

• ​The most embarrassing trophy we could afford

​(Winner announced at the end of July.)

​Additional Awards

• ​Track prizes

• ​People's Choice Award

• ​Judge-named awards

• ​Certificates and mentorship from the judging panel

​Cost to enter: $0

​Who It's For

​Builders, designers, artists, hackers, and degenerate tinkerers who would rather ship the joke than slide-deck the empire.

• ​AI assistance is welcome.

• ​AI submitting on its own behalf is not.

• ​Open-source what you build.

​Register. Join the Discord. Bring Something Weird.

​Questions: weird@only-works.com

​OnlyWorks are bringing together a community of builders who care more about making strange things real than making them marketable.

​OnlyWorks is proof of real work, not résumés.

​For one weekend, we're celebrating projects that should never have existed but somehow do.