Hackathon Ideas - Generative AI tools
Hello there!
Background:
I work in a small firm (30 people) that does open innovation consulting and project management for the industrial and financial sectors. Like many others, I have been fascinated by the incredible power and disruption that generative AI platforms offer. Personally, I see endless possibilities for using these platforms to increase our output and improve our work.
To showcase the potential of these tools, I built a simple integration that takes in a prospect's name and generates personalized slides outlining business units and use cases they can work on with us. (I used the Open AI API, Google Sheets, App Script, and Google Slides for this.)
Inspired by this, I suggested running an internal hackathon to teach the team how to use these tools and build some basic MVPs. Here's how it will work: I will divide the team into groups, and each group will come up with a problem statement about inefficiencies in their day-to-day work (such as extensive time spent on personalizing presentations, cleaning data, writing content, indexing companies, etc.). Then, each team will have a few hours to build a simple tool to help address the problem. The team that builds the best tool will win a fancy dinner!
Ask:
This is where I need your help. I would love to get some additional ideas for tools that I can show to the team. Do you know any other powerful AI platforms that we could use? Or perhaps you have some other ideas on how we can make this hackathon even more exciting?
I will share whatever I come up with on this channel, thanks!
Videos
As you may know, the official r/AI_Agents hackathon is happening from 5/14 to 5/21.
Use this thread to post your ideas and find a team.
Reminder that:
Hackathon participants will receive hundreds of dollars in free credits
Hackathon winners will receive meetings with VCs that may provide you hundreds of thousands in funding
The goal of this hackathon is build a real, working MVP and put it into production
Hackathon logistics will occur via luma and Discord
All relevant links are listed in the comments
Submission format:
Hackathon submissions should take the format of a pre-recorded video uploaded to YouTube under "unlisted" (just like a YC demo)
Demos should be under 3 minutes, demos over 3 minutes will only be judged on the first 3 minutes
If you wish to enter your submission to win the weekly project display, you may do so via the weekly project display thread
Best of luck everyone! Remember to sign up at the correct link on luma and join the community discord to receive up-to-date information