MultiModel Hackathon with Beta Fund
Beta Hacks is a monthly hackathon for ambitious builders, engineers, and students to turn ideas into real products — fast.
Whether you're exploring a new concept, validating a startup idea, or pushing emerging tech, Beta Hacks gives you the environment, resources, and community to ship.
Each month, participants build solo or in teams, prototyping and launching functional products in a focused timeframe, with hands-on support from mentors, investors, and operators across AI, product, and GTM. Teams demo to an open floor and are judged on innovation, execution, technical depth, and real-world potential.
Who should attend: engineers, designers, and technical builders; early-stage and aspiring founders; students and professionals interested in startups and AI; anyone motivated to build and ship ambitious products.
Join our Discord for hackathon credit and resources
🏆 Beta Fund Prize
🚀 Beta Fund Investment — $25,000 check, awarded on the spot to one team
🏆 Audience Favorite — $1,000 Cash , award on the spot to one team.
📱 Builder Influence — $1,000 Cash (Highest social media engagement & viral reach) Announced and cash sent 7 days after the hackathon, on Discord.
⚡ Rapid Builder Awards — $500 × 4 teams Announced and cash sent 7 days after the hackathon, on Discord.
🏆 Butterbase.ai:
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 $500 in credits 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..."
🏆 Photon Prize
Photon track: build agents that have the best interface using Photon's Spectrum. Go to dashboard, sign up, use the promo code(HACKWITHPHOTON) and you can have a Pro subscription for free. Connect your agent to iMessage through the dashboard.
To qualify for the prize, your project must integrate with iMessage via Spectrum. We have our support channel on Discord for more guidance.
Best Photon Interfaces*2 - 1 month of Photon line, total worth of $1000
🏆 Cumulus Labs:
Build your project using vision models from ionrouter.io and showcase the awesome project you've built. The selected winner will receive $500 in credits on IonRouter.
💰 Beta Fund Investment Opportunity
At least one team will be selected for $25,000 and Up to $50,000 investment. The other top teams will be considered for a $25,000 - $50,000 investment from Beta Fund, subject to due diligence and follow-up discussions.
Credits & Resources will be emailed to the in-person participants onsite.
Onsite team forming option is available
Topics:
Track 1: AI Video Agents for Vertical Industries
Automating end-to-end video workflows (e.g., real estate walkthroughs, compliance training) by building domain-specific agents that understand context and generate tailored video outputs.Track 2: AI-Powered Content Automation
Building fully automated pipelines (input → generation → optimization → distribution) that turn ideas or data into ready-to-publish videos for marketing and e-commerce.Track 3: AI DevTools for Video
Developing infrastructure—SDKs, orchestration tools, or evaluation systems—that lowers the barrier for developers to integrate high-quality video generation into their own products.Track 4: Physical AI + Simulation
Leveraging video generation to simulate environments and generate training data, accelerating the development of physical AI systems like robotics or autonomous agents.Track 5: follow your own curiosity
what you want to work on is not found above? don't be limited and feel free to define your own!
📅 Agenda
9:00 – 10:30 AM — Check-in & Breakfast
Meet other builders and form your team
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM — Opening Remarks by Beta Fund
10:45 – 11:15 AM — Co-host Workshop
11:15 – 12:45 PM — Lunch & Form your team
1:00 – 5:00 PM — Build
5:00 - 6:30 — Demo (10 teams selected by judges)
6:30 - 7:00 PM — Award + Wrap up
Winners announced and closing remarks.
Judging Criteria:
To be eligible for the Beta Fund Investment and cash prizes, projects will be evaluated on a 100-point scale across the following four pillars:
Real-World Potential & GTM (1 to 10)
Vertical Viability: Does the project solve a high-value problem in a specific industry (Real Estate, E-commerce, Robotics)?
Scalability: The feasibility of turning the prototype into a venture-scale startup.
Demo Quality: Clarity of the value proposition during the open-floor pitch.
Contextual Logic: How well the project addresses the specific technical challenges outlined in each selected track.
2. Ecosystem & Tooling Mastery (1 to 10)
Stack Depth: Successful integration of partner technologies:
Trae: Evidence of AI-native development.
Butterbase: Robustness of the backend and deployment.
Photon: Quality of the iMessage/chat interface via Spectrum.
Cumulus Labs: Performance and speed of vision/multimodal models via IonRouter.
MiroMind: Implementation of verification-centric research to eliminate hallucinations.
3. Technical Execution & Innovation (1 to 10)
Shipping Velocity: The delta between "idea" and a "functional prototype" within the 4-hour build window.
Technical Depth: Complexity of the orchestration, SDK usage, or model fine-tuning.
Innovation: Novelty of the approach—avoiding "wrapper" solutions in favor of unique architectures.
4. Continuity post building day (e.g. continue to talk to users / engage with the real world market etc..)
Demo Structure & Submission
Submit your project here: https://betahacks.org/submit/new
Demo Structure:
The Top 10 Teams will be selected to move on to the final round. Each team is allocated 5 minutes for their presentation, followed by a live 1-2 min Q&A session.
Presentation Guide line:
We prefer you have a demo, video Length: 1 to 3 minutes.
We prefer you have a deck 1-3 pages
Co-Host:
MiroMind: MiroMind is an open-source, verification-centric deep research agent — built for people who treat hallucinations as a dealbreaker.
Photon: We bring AI Agents into chat apps like iMessage, RCS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and many more.
Trae: Trae is an AI Coding IDE developed by ByteDance, designed to help developers build faster and more efficiently with AI.
Butterbase: Backed by South Park Commons and partners from First Round Capital and A16Z, the backend for apps you build with AI. Code with your favorite AI assistant, tell it to use Butterbase, and it handles the rest — database, auth, file storage, serverless functions, API endpoints, and deployment. Nothing to configure. You keep shipping your product, and the backend forms itself.
Cumulus Labs: backed by Y Combinator, presents IonRouter.io, which hosts 30+ multimodal models—including vision, audio, & text—at best-in-class speed powered by their proprietary inference engine, Ion. All participants will receive $50 in credits to build their project for the hackathon. Find us for more credits!