Online only
Build from home, school or a coworking space. No travel, no venue. Updates and questions go through a WhatsApp group for the weekend.
Planned
A 72-hour online build sprint
We plan to run a hackathon where Nigerian builders take one weekend, pick a track, build with AI tools, and put a working project live. You would leave with something you can point to: a live URL, a repo, and a short demo.
No hackathon has run yet. There is no date, no prize pool, no partner, no judging panel and no past winners. When the first one is set we will say so here and on WhatsApp.
One weekend, fully online, teams of one to four
AI tools allowed
Use whatever AI tools you like. The one condition is that you can explain every decision in your project yourself, and you say in the README what AI wrote.
Built during the sprint
Start from a plain starter template if you want, but the project itself gets built inside the 72 hours. Small and working beats big and broken.
Four tracks a team could pick
A track is a direction, not a competition category. Pick the one closest to a problem you already know.
AI product for a Nigerian business
Build a small AI-powered tool that takes one real business chore off someone's plate: drafting, sorting, summarising, answering. It should work on a phone and be usable by a stranger without a walkthrough.
Mobile-first, low-data
Build for people who reach the internet mostly through a phone on a weak connection. Keep pages light, handle dropped connections, and make the core action work on cheap data.
Student build
For current university, polytechnic and NYSC builders. Any idea qualifies. The point is to learn fast, document clearly, and finish with something that runs.
Community tool
Build something that serves a group directly: a school, a clinic, a cooperative, a church, a market, a neighbourhood. Usefulness to real people over technical depth.
What a team would ship
- A working project deployed at a public URL
- A public repo with a README and a note on what AI generated and what you checked yourself
- A short demo: a two-minute screen recording or a few slides walking through the core feature
Every finished project would be listed in the Project Library so the work stays visible after the weekend. That is the reward we can describe today. Anything else gets written here only once it is real.