Qoder × Beta Fund · Agent Factory · Tiny Fish CPO Panel
🛑 Every serious AI product now ships an agent. What ships the agent?
The next platform primitive isn't a smarter model. It's the factory that produces, deploys, and manages the agents doing real work. Compilers gave us apps. Cloud gave us SaaS. Agent factories will give us the workforce that runs on top of them.
This hackathon is where you build that factory.
Together with Qoder, the AI-native IDE from Alibaba DAMO, we're bringing builders together for one day to ship the tools, runtimes, and marketplaces that will produce the next million agents. Not another wrapper. Not another chat UI. The infrastructure that makes agent creation itself agent-native.
🛠️ Join our Discord for credits, team formation, and support: https://discord.gg/cswGFwFumn
1-2 builders per team
Mandatory Qoder integration
Ship a working demo, not a slide deck
Schedule 📅
9:00 AM Check-in
10:00 to 10:30 AM Opening Remarks + Qoder workshop
10:30 to 11:15 AM Panel: "What breaks when agents build agents"
11:15 AM Build starts
11:30 AM Lunch
1:00 PM Build continues
5:00 PM Demo Showcase
6:30 PM 🏆 Awards & Closing
Panel · "What breaks when agents build agents"
Shuhao Zhang, Co-Founder of Tiny Fish
Qoder, AI-native IDE, the factory floor
Active VC investing in the agent stack
Chenyi Zhang, Member of Technical Staff at Character.AI
Focus Tracks
🏭 Builder Agents Agents whose job is to write, generate, test, or spin up other agents. Natural language into a deployed autonomous worker. Think: an agent that ingests a job description and returns a live, runnable coworker.
🔀 Multi-Agent Orchestration Coordination layers that let 2 to N agents share context, hand off tasks, and self-heal. Focus on the protocols and control planes, not the individual agents themselves. MCP-native, A2A, task routers, planner-executor loops.
🧱 Agent Runtime & Infra The production stack: memory, sandboxes, cost controls, observability, retry logic, human-in-the-loop gates. What everyone will need once agents ship real revenue. Boring on the surface, moat underneath.
🏢 Vertical Agent Factories Domain-specific factories that produce agents for one industry at a time. A legal agent factory. A sales agent factory. A support agent factory. Show us the wedge where general-purpose stacks lose to purpose-built ones.
Prizes and Investment
🏆 Cash Prizes
1st place: $600
2nd place: $500
3rd place: $400
💰 Beta Fund Fellowship Standout teams get invited to interview for Beta Fund's Fellowship. Most exceptional teams receive an immediate $200,000 pre-seed check, with up to $2 million total reserved through the seed stage.
⚡ Qoder Credits Every attendee gets Qoder credits to build with the AI-native IDE that ships production agents.
Cohosts
Qoder is Alibaba DAMO's AI-native IDE, purpose-built for the era where humans stop typing code line by line and start orchestrating agents that write, review, and deploy for them. Launched in Silicon Valley Jan 2026, Qoder is one of the fastest-growing AI coding tools in the market.
Beta Fund is the fund for the agent-native era. We invest at the earliest point where conviction begins, running one of the largest builder communities in Silicon Valley and backing the founders shipping the agent stack itself.