A 24-hour AI prompt-engineering hackathon where speed, creativity, and chaos collide.
Your job: write the most creative prompts, bend AI tools to your will, and ship something wild before the clock runs out.
No code? No problem. The only thing you need is ideas and the audacity to try ridiculous things.
Tone: Fast, playful, competitive
Visual Style:
- Lightning bolts + storm clouds
- Electric blue + neon yellow + black + white palette
- Bold, rounded fonts for a friendly but high-energy feel
- AI doodles: chat bubbles, magic sparkles, code brackets.
WHO SHOULD JOIN?- AI tinkerers and builders
- Writers, designers, coders
- No-coders curious about AI
- Beginners who want a low-barrier way to compete
- Start: 12:00 AM IST
- End: 11:59 PM IST (24 hours)
- Solo or teams of up to 4
- Any AI tool allowed (ChatGPT, Claude, Midjourney, Runway, custom LLMs, etc.)
- Beginners welcome
This hackathon is part of the Grand Indian Hackathon Season (GIHS) — a three-month sprint featuring 10 unique hackathons.
All prizes feed into an ever-expanding season-wide prize pool, currently at â‚ą17,00,000+. Each hackathon has its own winners and shoutouts, but the bigger rewards are revealed at the Grand Indian Hackathon Ceremony in November, where the best projects from across all events are celebrated together.
Because the prize pool grows as we bring in more partners, sponsors, and communities, we encourage participants to join the Discord server for the latest updates on prizes, collabs, and surprise drops throughout the season.
Requirements
- Link to final build/output
- Prompt logs (or best examples)
- Short write-up: what you tried, what worked, what surprised you
- Optional: 1-min demo video
Prizes
Chain-of-Thought Recognition
â‚ą8,2000 worth of tech credits.
For the project that showed the funniest, weirdest, or most chaotic prompt logs — even if the outputs weren’t perfect. Winners receive a certificate, shoutouts on Maximally, and optional LOR.
AI Joker Award
â‚ą8200 worth of tech credits.
Awarded to the funniest use of AI prompts — whether it’s cursed images, absurd outputs, or a project that made the whole community laugh. Winners earn a certificate, Maximally features, and LOR on request.
Cloudburst Award
â‚ą8200 worth of tech credits.
Sometimes ideas come pouring in all at once. This recognition goes to the team that generated the widest variety of prompts and outputs, showing volume and creativity. Winners get a certificate, Maximally spotlight, and optional LOR.
Static Shock Mention
â‚ą8200 worth of tech credits.
For the project that didn’t win cash but still delivered a sharp, electrifying idea that stood out. Winners receive a certificate, Maximally-wide shoutouts, and optional LOR.
Beginner Spark Award
â‚ą8200 worth of tech credits.
Even a single spark matters. This prize is for the best beginners prompt engineer who tried AI experimentation in some of their first projects. Winners get an official certificate, Maximally recognition, and the option of an LOR.
Lightning Bolt Champion
Perks: â‚ą3,000 cash,â‚ą1,02,000 worth of tech credits Maximally certificate, platform spotlight, and a personalized Letter of Recommendation (LOR) on request.
For the project that *bent AI to its will*. Whether through genius prompting, tool-stacking chaos, or pure creative storm, this award crowns the hacker who wielded artificial intelligence like thunder.
Thunderclap Creator
Perks: â‚ą2,000 cash,â‚ą62,000 worth of tech credits, Maximally certificate, social features, and an optional LOR.
Awarded to the hacker who made everyone’s jaw drop with the most *unexpected, hilarious, or mind-bending AI result.* Maybe it was speed. Maybe it was chaos. Maybe it was magic. Whatever it was — it hit like a storm.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Rishul Chanana
Founder @ Maximally
Sergey Polyashov
Principal Software Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Vishal Padh
Sr. Software Architect
Vikranth Kumar Shivaa
Founding Engineer @ Fig
Nikita Klimov
Sr. Software QA Engineer contractor at ADP, Inc.
Shreesh Agarwal
Sr Business Analyst, McKinsey and Company
Rakesh Pullayikodi
Principal Software Engineer @Palo Alto Networks
Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda
Distinguished Engineer @Dreadnode
Tanmay Kejriwal
Founder @ MakeX
Sahil Deshpande
Software Engineer @ Meta
Ashwini Joshi
Senior Machine Learning engineer @Warner Bros. Discovery
Senthilkumaran Rajagopalan
Tech Lead Manager, Video Recommendations, Meta
Prateek Batla
Product Manager at Meta
Venkataram Poosapati
Senior Data Engineer, Atlassian
Ruslan Ibrahimov
Senior Software Engineer at VoiceLove
Bohdan Churik
Software Engineer at VoiceLove
Jay rungta
Engineering Manager @ Google
Ashish Singh
Sr. IT Architect @ Global Payments
Sai Charan Reddy Nevuri
Software Engineer @ AWS
Abhishek Shrivastava
Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Yogiraj Awati
Engineering Manager@Instacart
Krishna Arjun Saravanan
Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg
Abhinay Kumar Reddy Seella
Sr Software Engineer @ Roku
Jay Bharat Mehta
Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Alexandr Dergunov
Software Engineer @Meta
Anastasia Glavatchi
Head of Marketing
Aleksandr Ruban
Marketing Expert in the Game Industry
Assiya Jaisheva
Design Lead
Aleksandr Karavanin
Production Engineer at Meta
Oleg Skliarenko
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at DRCT
Dmitry Bobolev
Founder of Froxy Labs
Sumit Saha
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Puneet Ramaul
Senior Sales Director at HCLTech
Akash Jindal
Product Owner at Llyods Banking Group
Karthikeyan Sundaram
Backend Software Engineer at WithU
Anil Kumar
Software Engineer at Paua
Arvind K Gautam
ASEAN Lead at Avaya
Judging Criteria
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Prompt Creativity (30%)
How wild, witty, or genius your prompt game is. -
Output Quality (25%)
Does your AI spit out or flop? Clean, cool, and makes sense. -
Novelty of Use (20%)
Freshness check. Did you use AI in a way no one thought of? -
Execution (15%)
From idea to reality, how smooth was the ride? -
Presentation (10%)
How well you flex it to the world.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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