World's Largest Hermes Buildathon | Singapore 🇸🇬
​Join the Singapore edition of the World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon.
​Backed by OpenAI, Convex, Cloudflare, ElevenLabs, Linkup, Dodo Payments, & Wispr Flow. Proudly presented by GrowthX.
​This is not a regular buildathon. You will build, launch, get users, and chase revenue in 8 hours.
​Who is this for?
​AI-first engineers
​Founders
​Product leads
​Growth engineers
​Forward-deployed engineers
​GTM and growth operators
​Meet Our Partners
​OpenAI is the AI Partner for The World's Largest Hermes Buildathon, empowering builders with access to OpenAI's latest models and platform capabilities to build, test, and deploy real-world AI applications. Thousands of builders across 10 cities and 5 countries will use OpenAI to prototype AI agents on Hermes.
​Convex is the Database Partner, giving builders real-time sync, backend functions, workflows, and vector search so they skip backend plumbing and ship faster.
​Wispr Flow is the Dictation Partner, letting builders dictate prompts, PRDs, docs, and implementation plans far faster than typing. In an 8-hour buildathon, teams move at the speed of thought.
​ElevenLabs is the Voice Partner, giving agents a voice, personality, and real conversational ability through voice cloning, low-latency responses, and multilingual support.
​Cloudflare is the Hosting Partner, taking products from laptop to live in minutes with global deployment, AI Gateway observability, and usage tracking.
​Linkup is the Web Search Partner for The World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon, giving builders real-time web search for AI agents through a single API.
​Dodo Payments is the Payments Partner for The World’s Largest Hermes Buildathon, helping builders start accepting payments in under 5 minutes.
​Meet your hosts
​Ayan Sircar
​Ayan Sircar leads AI-first Product and Go-to-Market at Afresh, where he consults and venture-builds across AI-native marketplaces, healthcare, career platforms and startup incubation programs. Before Afresh, he launched three zero-to-one enterprise AI SaaS categories to $1M+ ARR, scaled products in SEA and Europe, and led brand data products at Lazada (Alibaba) used by 9M sellers. He brings the discipline of owning the outcome: applying product thinking, data storytelling and AI judgement to take ideas from ambiguity to adoption and revenue.
​Ayushi Kotak
​Ayushi Kotak leads Growth at Rently, a fintech startup making rental payments rewarding and flexible across UAE & SEA. Prior to this, she was at Cornell and worked with a host of startups from seed to scale. She brings the founder-grade growth lens: how to understand users, create demand, build trust, and take AI products from interesting to adopted.