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All three perks (.xyz domain, Render credits, and Tin credits) are given to every registered team. Perks are delivered by email and can take up to 12 hours to arrive.
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Extriver Creator-to-CEO Hackathon
From audience insights to real businesses.
Choose a creator. Understand their audience. Build software those followers will actually use and pay for.
Winning teams' software is promoted by our influencers, and the team receives 20% of the software's revenue for 2 years. Render and Tin Computer add support for server hosting costs and advertising & marketing.
Go beyond the hackathon and become the CTO of a real business. Extriver Partners provides payments (PG), continuous monitoring, and DevOps.
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BCIT Computing Club
British Columbia Institute of Technology · Since 2019
The largest developer community at BCIT, part of the BCIT Student Association. Computing students from CST, CIT, and more team up to design and build production-level projects.
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Pandora Cube
Sejong University · Since 2002
Sejong University's flagship game development club. Members train across design, art, and programming, then ship team projects to game expos like PlayX4 and to Steam.
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Software for an audience that already exists.
There are no restrictions on product format. Pick one creator, study their followers, and build what those followers would actually use and pay for.
Technical excellence is welcome, but the product must be something real consumers would use and pay for.
What if creators could own the businesses they promote?
Advances in AI animation and generative content have brought a fast-growing wave of new creators. Some reach millions of views and build enormous influence, yet their income rarely grows in proportion.
The traditional influencer industry still depends heavily on promoting other companies' products in exchange for sponsorship fees.
Why should the people who best understand what their followers want always be promoting someone else's product?
Extriver helps creators move beyond being advertising channels and own products and businesses of their own.
Most hackathons start with an idea. This one starts with the audience.
At most hackathons, participants come up with an idea, build a product, and only then ask who will use it. The Extriver Hackathon reverses that order.
Five creator partners from different content fields are taking part. Participants analyze each creator's content, anonymized follower statistics, viewer characteristics, and platform trends, then plan and build software those followers are most likely to actually use.
Choose a Creator. Understand the Audience. Build a Business.
Evaluated on business potential, not just code.
When a creator promotes your product, thousands of people can arrive at once. Up to 10 bonus points go to teams that show their product will stay up and keep improving under real traffic.
Judges ask: how will you maintain this service, and which DevOps stack (Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, and so on) did you use to keep it running?
Up to 10 bonus points are added on top of the four criteria above. Describe your setup in the technical documentation or demo video.
Technical feasibility, basic security, lawful use of content, and product stability are considered in the commercialization eligibility review.
Meet the creators and judges.
Each creator partner selects the project that best fits their audience. Industry judges join them to evaluate the business behind every build.
Five winning products. Five real business opportunities.
One project is selected as the best fit for each of the five creator partners. Winning teams receive:
Revenue share applies once the product is commercialized and the revenue defined in the contract is generated.
Among the creator award winners, the three teams with the strongest overall execution and business potential receive additional cash prizes.
Built on Render · +10% cash bonus
If your winning service is deployed and running on Render, Extriver adds 10% of your cash prize on top, paid in cash.
Render is a cloud application platform (PaaS). Traditional web hosting mostly serves static pages and simple PHP sites. Render runs the whole product: backend servers, databases, real-time features, and AI agents.
Connect a GitHub repository and Render deploys every new commit automatically, so your team writes code instead of setting up and maintaining servers.
Finding a server to host your app is a hassle. With Render, your app goes live for anyone to use in minutes, and it stays up 24/7.
Awarded to the three projects that make the best use of Render. Prizes are Render credits, which cover any costs on your Render workspace, including the plan fee, compute, and bandwidth.
Every registered participant also receives $50 in Render credits to build with. The claim link is sent to registered participants only. How credits work ↗
The Render track is judged by the Hack the Audience judges. Winners receive their credit codes by email after the hackathon ends. A project can enter the Render track and the creator awards at the same time.
Tin gives your coding agent a ready-made marketing team: hundreds of workflow templates, schedules, evaluations, and live data. It is open source under Apache 2.0, and you can add it from tin.computer or try it in the browser.
You build the product. Tin's AI helps you win customers and runs your marketing.
Every eligible software team gets $299 in Tin growth credits for free.
Available to eligible teams, up to 100 teams. Eligible teams receive the claim instructions by email.
.xyz is a domain name ending for the next generation of internet users. It offers flexible and affordable domain names, so any project can get a short, memorable address of its own.
Give your product a real address. Put it on its own .xyz domain from day one.
All 100 participants get a .xyz domain free for 1 year.
Registered participants receive the domain claim instructions by email. Pairs well with Render: deploy on Render, point your .xyz domain at it.
What every team submits.
This hackathon is designed for anyone: developers, designers, data analysts, marketers, and students who dream of starting a company.
You don't need to be skilled at everything. What matters is the ability to analyze data, discover real consumer problems, and build a product that solves them.