The Dumb Hackathon

🛠️ The Dumb Hackathon

Hosted by AI Valley X Pebblebed.com

Build the dumbest thing you can imagine. Seriously.

This is not your typical “change the world” hackathon — it’s the opposite. Spend a day creating gloriously useless projects, meeting fellow chaos-makers, and celebrating the joy of building for fun. If it makes people laugh, groan, or wonder why on earth did you make this? — you’re doing it right.

⚡️ New this time: We’re also hosting a Performative Male Contest at the hackathon. So come dressed as your most performative self and be ready to compete for a special sponsor prize at 2 PM.

🤝 With Support From Our Sponsors

​Google — Powering innovation and creativity with tools and platforms that enable builders everywhere.

​ElevenLabs — ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company on a mission to make content universally accessible in any language and voice. We develop advanced AI models that generate realistic, versatile, and contextually aware speech, voices, and sound effects across 32 languages, tailoring them for everyday users, creators, and enterprises. Our technology and agents platform power a wide range of applications, from voicing audiobooks to aiding medical training. elevenlabs.io

​Morph — Morph is coding agent middleware that makes LLMs practical for agentic coding by powering fast, reliable, high-throughput code edits and retrieval in large codebases. morphllm.com

​**Toolhouse.ai** — Toolhouse is a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) that lets you build, run, and manage AI agents. It simplifies turning agents defined as code into production APIs, and includes features like RAG, memory, observability, and prompt optimization.  toolhouse.ai

​Ministry of Programming — A venture builder and product development studio that has helped launch 200+ startups worldwide. ministryofprogramming.com

​VAPI — VAPI provides an open platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI voice agents. Developers can create natural, real-time conversational agents with low-latency streaming, integrations, and production-ready infrastructure. vapi.ai

A1Base — At A1Base, we’re building the next big messaging platform with A1Zap. We rethink what great and useful interactions are with friends, tasks, life, work and more - but with an eye on how to make it all better with AI. We let you quickly build an agent that can chat with friends/groups on our app, or in email, whatsapp and sms. A1Base

🏆 The Grand Prize

The winning team will take home a rare Labubu, custom-made with hand-set diamonds and pearls by celebrity jeweler Kyle Chan.

Kyle’s designs have been worn by Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Emma Stone in La La Land, and he was recently profiled by the New York Times as “the unofficial jeweler to the stars” — read the article here.

Follow his latest creations on Instagram:@kylechandesign

💡 About our Venue Host: Pebblebed.com

Pebblebed is a technical early-stage VC founded by some of the most influential builders in AI and tech:

• Pam Vagata — Cofounder of OpenAI, led AI at Stripe, inventor of FBLearner Flow
• Keith Adams — Founded Facebook AI Research, Chief Architect at Slack, 20th engineer at VMWare
• Luke Byrne — Former Partner at Tapestry
• Tammie Siew — Former Sequoia Southeast Asia investor, Sequoia & GGV-backed founder

🚀 Backed by this powerhouse team, Pebblebed is shaping the next wave of AI and frontier tech.

👉 Learn more at stupid-hackathon-roan.vercel.app

👉 Community page: aivalley.io