Hack The Nest

Your hackathon A-team just got two new members. Build your hackathon project with Cursor and Grok Bot this weekend to qualify for the SpaceXSI raffle. Every member on the winning team walks away with a custom-branded Cursor mechanical keyboard.

Here’s how you qualify:

• Use Cursor as your core AI coding agent
  
• Integrate a Grok Bot automation into your workflow
  
• In your project description, describe how you use both Cursor and Grok Bot.
  
• Submit your project and be sure to opt-in to the Make it Legendary with SpaceXSI raffle.
  

It’s time to push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI using Google Gemini. Check out the Gemini API to build AI-powered apps that make your friends say WHOA. So, what can Gemini do for your hackathon project?

• Understand language like a human and build a chatbot that gives personalized advice
  
• Analyze info like a supercomputer and create an app that summarizes complex research papers
  
• Generate creative content like code, scripts, music, and more
  

Think of the possibilities… what will you build with the Google Gemini API this weekend?

The world of development is evolving fast and Solana is leading the charge with a network built to handle all of your infrastructure needs. Forget high fees and slow confirmations, it’s time to build applications that are fast, efficient, and scalable.

Harness Solana’s core advantages like blazing fast execution and near-zero transaction costs to make your hackathon ideas become real world projects. With Solana, the possibilities are endless.

• Create a game, social app, or consumer product that relies on instant, high-frequency transactions.
  
• Design a sophisticated trading, lending, or decentralized exchange (DEX).
  
• Build a prototype for supply chain, identity, or payments that can handle massive, real-world volume.
  

Show us how you can innovate with Solana for a chance to win Unruggable Hardware Wallets for you and each member of your team!

Building high-performance apps under hackathon deadlines shouldn't mean spending half your weekend configuring complex databases or learning obscure query languages. Tiger Data extends PostgreSQL to give student developers an ultra-fast foundation for real-time data, time-series metrics, and complex analytics.

Why build with Tiger Data this weekend?

• Standard SQL Power: Query massive datasets instantly using the SQL you already know, with no complex NoSQL aggregation pipelines required.
  

• Unified Data Stack: Store relational user profiles and high-frequency metric streams side-by-side in a single database.
  

• Instant Dashboards: Serve lag-free, real-time frontend charts using pre-computed Continuous Aggregates.
  

• 90%+ Data Compression: Store millions of events on free-tier cloud instances without running out of disk space.
  

Whether you’re building real-time IoT monitoring, AI-driven analytics dashboards, or financial prediction engines, show us how Tiger Data powers your project. The team that demonstrates the most innovative, impactful, and performance-driven use of Tiger Data will take home some great prizes!

Vultr empowers hackers to bring their high-performance projects to life instantly; providing everything from the speed of one-click deployment and scalable cloud compute, to specialized Vultr Cloud GPUs that can power AI-driven applications. We want you to push the limits of what can be built when infrastructure is no longer the bottleneck!

Sign up for a Vultr account today and claim your free cloud credits! Take your next hack to the cloud with Vultr for a chance to win some awesome prizes for you and your team!

Give your project another chance to shine!

Your hackathon may end after the weekend, but your project story is just getting started. Publish what you built on DEV and help other developers learn from your process.

Each month, the DEV editorial team will select at least one favorite project. Additional projects may be selected depending on submission volume.

Selections consider technical substance, originality, clear storytelling, and community popularity. Great work deserves an audience, so make your post useful, memorable, and easy to share.

MongoDB Atlas takes the leading modern database and makes it accessible in the cloud! Get started with a $50 credit for students or sign up for the Atlas free forever tier (no credit card required). Along with a suite of services and functionalities, you’ll have everything you need to manage all of your data, and you can get a headstart with free resources from MongoDB University! Build a hack using MongoDB Atlas for a chance to win a M5Stack IoT Kit for you and each member of your group.

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win some amazing prizes!