​🚨 Get started today & finish the warm-up before September 1st kick-off!

​🚨 The full setup guide is here!

​Complete steps 01–06, run two public Plays, finish one practice Play, then post “warmed up” in Discord so the hosts know you are ready.

​Installation currently supports macOS and Linux. Windows is not supported for this warm-up.

​Do not arrive with setup left to do. Every setup minute comes out of your build time.

​👉 FINISH THE SIX-STEP WARM-UP →

​This hackathon is brought to you by Rote and WeMakeDevs in partnership with DevTools Academy.

​Your agent solves something hard. It works. Then the session ends and the method goes with it. Next week you ask for the same thing and it works the whole problem out again from scratch, slowly, and maybe differently.

​That's the problem this hackathon exists to kill.

​A live event of builders, one arena, one job: ship a Play that other people actually want to run.

​💻 Prizes

• ​First place: MacBook Pro

• ​Second place: iPad

• ​Third place: iPhone 17

• ​Best social media posts (make sure to tag Modiqo on LinkedIn or X): Apple Watches

​🗓️ Schedule

• ​Now until 1 September — Finish steps 01–06, run one practice Play, and post “warmed up” in Discord.

• ​1 September, 4pm UK — Kickoff livestream. Remaining prizes announced.

• ​All week — Publish as many Plays as you like. Pull other people's Plays and run them.

• ​All week — Post about what you're building to be in the running for an Apple Watch.

• ​Sunday 8pm London — Submissions close.

​❓What a Play is

​Think of the workflow you've done three times this week and resented every time. A Play is that workflow, solved once and kept properly.

​You create it with rote by working through the job with your agent as normal. rote keeps the procedure that worked so it can be run again with fresh inputs. It's reusable, and it's inspectable, meaning anyone can open it up and see exactly what it does before trusting it with their own work.

​🙋‍♂️ What you do

​🚨 The full setup guide is here!

1. ​Install rote and load up your favorite agent harness. Setup guide is linked below.

2. ​Pick a job you genuinely repeat. The tedious one, not the impressive one.

3. ​Build it into a Play by asking your agent to use play.

4. ​Publish it to the shared hackathon space. It goes live to everyone the moment you do.

5. ​Run what everyone else ships and keep the ones that earn a place in your week.

​Everyone creates at least one Play, and every Play is visible to the whole group.

​🏆 How you win

​There's no demo deck and no pitch to hide behind. Your Play has to run, and it has to be clear enough that someone who didn't build it can pick it up and trust it.

​Judges are looking at three things: does it actually run, can a stranger understand it, and do people adopt it once it's published.

​The scoreboard rewards practical magic. The strongest entries are usually small and unglamorous, the shortcut that saves ten minutes, the cleanup nobody wants to do by hand, the status check that takes too many clicks, the routine task that finally stops hurting.

​✅ How to make your submission

​Publishing is submitting. When your run is reusable, Play asks where the method should live: Team, Community, or Skip. Choose Community and your Play goes public. That's your entry. There's no separate form, no deck, no upload. Publishing is always your call, and your Play is verified before the victory lap, so what the judges see is what everyone else sees: your Play, running. You are now a Playmaker!

​Questions? Join us the WeMakeDevs Discord server and ask it there.