Announcing the winners of the ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon

Last weekend we held the inaugural ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon in collaboration with a16z and partners PostHog, Lovable, Clerk, Make, PICA, fal.ai, Vercel and Mistral, bringing together hundreds of developers and builders from all over the world to build more than 300 world-class AI agents.

Across six in-person events, three community events, and a global virtual gathering hosted on our Discord server, builders spent 40 hours bringing to life innovative AI agents using ElevenLabs and partner technologies from PostHog, Lovable, Clerk, Make, PICA, fal.ai, Vercel and Mistral.

We were overwhelmed with more than 300 high-quality projects making it incredibly tough for our judges, Mati Staniszewski (CEO ElevenLabs), Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel), James Hawkins (CEO of PostHog), Anton Osika (CEO of Lovable), Bryan Kim (Partner at a16z) and Justine Moore (Partner at a16z), to choose the winners.

Without further ado, we're excited to present to you the winning projects of the worldwide hackathon as well as a recap of the six in-person events around the world.

Global top prize

One project literally made waves worldwide when the recording of their demo went viral across social media and even got picked up by worldwide news, including Forbes.

With such an intriguing demo, it's no surprise that the judges unanimously agreed that the winner of the Global top prize is gibber link. 

Congrats to Boris Starkov, and Anton Pidkuiko, for your incredible work you get to take home a Teenage Engineering TP-7 per person.

Online hackathon winners

While we of course love hacking together in person, we also wanted to include our global community in the hackathon. So we took to our Discord server to host a virtual chapter of the hackathon. Hundreds of builders from all over the world across all timezones joined in to hack together. It was very wholesome to see everyone collaborating and helping each other out.

Over the past couple of days, our panel of judges comprised of Mati Staniszewski (CEO ElevenLabs), Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel), James Hawkins (CEO of PostHog), Anton Osika (CEO of Lovable), Bryan Kim (Partner at a16z) and Justine Moore (Partner at a16z), reviewed your projects and selected the winners.

1st Prize - Hugo Tour Guide

Hugo Tour Guide is your AI travel companion—it plans routes, provides local-like insights, and maps your journey, saving you from constant research while answering cultural and historical questions on the go.

Yilun Sun (Product Manager and Designer), Qiang Fang (Backend Engineer), David Chen (Frontend Engineer), Aiden Zhao (AI Engineer), a four person team from California, USA, built an impressively feature rich conversational travel agent providing a personalized, location-aware travel experience.

The team is planning to continue working on the project to turn it into a real product, and the first price, Apple Mac Minis for each team member, will be very helpful for them to bring Hugo to market.

2nd Prize - Pep - your compassionate Physical Therapy Agent

Runner up, Pep - your compassionate Physical Therapy Agent,  is a multi-modal, voice and vision agent, providing realtime coaching to patients, helping them stay on track with their physical therapy exercises.

Built by Feng Yan, and Lora Xie, a two person team collaborating across the US and China, is a great example of how we can utilize AI technologies to improve the lives of people around the world. For their efforts, they take home a Teenage Engineering OB-4, portable loudspeaker, the perfect companion to make sure Pep's voice is heard.

3rd Prize - Agent SFX

Coming in third, Agent SFX,  comprises a collection of tools for game developers to generate voiceovers and sound effects for their games.

Using vision models on fal.ai, the agent analyzes the game's node structure and screenshots and then gets to work generating voiceovers and sound effects that the developer can use in their game. The solution during the hackathon was initially built for the open source Godot game engine, but the team is already planning on expanding it to other popular game engines.

Built by game developers Arian Allenson Valdez, and Maria Mikhaela Magpoc from the Philippines, the team can look forward to a Shure MV6 microphone each, which should serve them well during their late night gaming sessions.

Partner Prizes

In addition to the prizes awarded by ElevenLabs, we also had some of our partners pitch in with some additional prizes:

Global fal.ai prize

Congrats to Eve Silberman for winning the global fal.ai prize or $24,000 in credits. These surely will be useful for the continued development of their AI game builder Playcade,  which we all thoroughly enjoyed seeing in action.

Global PostHog prize

The global PostHog prize of $22,000 in credits goes to PostHog Meeting Copilot by Parth Gandhi and Ishaan Shrivastava for the best usage of the PostHog LLM observability tool. Congrats!

Global Lovable prize

Tons of builders were utilizing lovable.dev for bringing their ideas to life, but Voyagr by Mateusz Baranowski and Eryk Janiczek were able to convince the judges with their personal travel insider and are rewarded with one year of free lovable usage for each of them.

Project Gallery

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone for participating in the hackathon and making this such an incredibly tough decision for our judges. There are a lot of projects in the project gallery and we weren't able to shout out here, so please check them out and give them a like and a comment!

In-person events

In addition to folks hacking together online, we also held six in-person events across London, New York, San Francisco, Warsaw, Bangalore, and Seoul.

London

The London event was held at the beautiful ElevenLabs office, seeing 80 builders join to hack together in the heart of the city.

Winners

1. GibberLink - the worldwide AI communication protocol sensation by Boris Starkov, and Anton Pidkuiko (global winner).
2. Espresso Labs - a voice-first personal assistant by Ali Hussain, Leo Camacho, and John Lingi.
3. Vox Populi - 3D sandbox game where you dynamically interact with AI Agents through speech by Matt Barty and Tabea Gallois.

New York

In New York city, 100 builders gathered at the wonderful ElevenLabs office in Soho to build their AI agents. The energy was amazing, with people flying in from Canada and even Paris for the event. 

Winners

1. Unstuck - inspired by the agent in our docs (elevenlabs.io/docs), Unstuck makes it possible to create a similar agent for any website on the internet, by Krish Mehta, Krish Shah, and Freeman Jiang.
2. Procuro - after a 1am pivot, the judges were blown away by Procuro’s demo which called suppliers across the US to find parts delayed in a supply chain. By Shrey Kakkar, Austin Wang, Prithvi, and Kyle Zhang.
3. Show me how - Show me how created an app that learns how you carry out manual tasks and guides a user to replicate the steps exactly with Conversational AI and computer use. By Andrew Siah, Shubham Chandel, and Iris M.

San Francisco

For the San Francisco event, we partnered with our friends at Intercom to host 100 in-person participants at their office.

Winners

1. Dealwise - AI agent that researches and calls local businesses on your behalf to get price quotes and availability. By Yvonne Li and Jason Fan.
2. Roadmate - an AI-powered driving copilot to keep you awake on the road. It can see you and the road ahead, and a voice agent engages you in conversation about your areas of interest, and it also texts a friend for help if you’re getting too drowsy. By Anwar Mujeeb, Russell Semsem and William Xuan.
3. Hippo - “Air quality control” for meetings: It listens in to analyze sentiment, info density, and speaker contributions and can make suggestions in real-time. Also measures contribution value / salary  to determine meeting efficiency for each person. By Annalece Mark, Jonathan Eicher, María Luque Anguita, and Jamie Martin.

Warsaw

The Warsaw event was the largest, with 120 in-person attendees at the Google for Startups Campus, including the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, joining in.

Winners

1. DeepSky: voice AI agent for airspace safety by Maciek Malik, Bartosz Solka, and Michal Pstrag.
2. Claimsio: transforms debt collection into a compliant, automated process that works. By Radek Bulat and Kuba.
3. Voyagr: your personal travel insider by Mateusz Baranowski and Eryk Janiczek.

Bangalore

Bangalore saw a strong turnout of 70 builders gather in India's tech capital to build their AI agents.

Winners

1. lossfunk: an AI-based film generator by Ayush Nangia, Adithya S K, Jayesh Sharma, and Vikramjeet Singh.
2. ECHO AI: AI agent to turn scattered thoughts into organized data by Punarv Dinakar, Ajinkya Bodke, Pranav, and Prathit Joshi.
3. Pochinki: seamlessly integrate ads into podcasts by Pradyumna Rahul, Nithin Kumar B, Ash Mirskar.

Seoul

In Seoul, we partnered with Day1Company and local industry expert judges to host an intimate event for 40 builders.

Winners

1. Voice Guardian: protecting your home with AI voice by Kwon Yooji, Kim Jaemin, Lee Junyoung, and Choi Changho.
2. AMUSH: your multilingual AI shopping host by Park Hyunah, Kim Sumin, Eun Jinsu, Ryu Jungwoo.
3. PrintMoneyAI: a conversational project management agent, practically printing you money! By Lucas Chae, Suzy Nam (Nam Suji), Ray Sun, Joseph Kim (Kim Yosep).

Community events

Last but not least, we want to thank Build Club, Second Space, and hello_miami for hosting community events across Sydney, Australia, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Miami, USA, giving online hackathon participants a space to come together and collaborate in person.

Conclusion

We had an incredible time hosting the Worldwide Hackathon and we're already looking forward to the next one. Thank you to everyone who participated, sponsored, or helped out in any way and made this such a great event.

We're also looking for feedback from the community on how we can make the hackathon even better next time. So please take a moment to fill out the feedback survey and let us know what you thought of the event.

And if you haven't already, make sure to check out the project gallery to see all the amazing submissions.