People really, really want to hack on and share their AI ideas.

We first floated the idea of a small (15-20 person) hackathon in an Airbnb a few weeks ago and but now have 200 registrations - way more than we had space for, or ability to handle logistically. We’ve capped the Airbnb, but we loved the energy of everyone sending stuff in and wanted to give people room to shine.

So Alessio (via Decibel) and some friends of Latent Space kicked in to take Demo Day up a notch and we’re going to open it up to everyone both local and remote!

Demo Day Details

Anyone can submit, even if you’re not in SF! Read on for categories and details.

Submission Deadline: Friday 17 Feb, 4pm PT on this form.
Demo Day Discord: Join here https://discord.gg/zvEDC5V6
Submission/Voting Categories:
Submission Criteria:
- You can work solo or in small teams of up to 5 (anything bigger is probably unfair to the others)
- Project/feature must be new or never-before-launched (a.k.a. does not strictly have to be started this week)
- Remote projects should be open source or live (no waitlistware please!)
Submission Process:
- Submit the Google form (submit early so we can gauge how it’s going, minor last minute revisions are fine)
- In person: Please be at the SF Demo Day (register here) from 4.30pm onward. Aim to do a ~5 minute demo + Q&A.
- Remote: Record a ~2-3 minute demo and remember to add at the end of the Google form. Ping us on the Discord if you want to update it.
- Basic demo format (optional; get creative/entertaining/weird if you like!)
  - Motivation: Why you chose to explore this idea
  - Walkthrough: Show what it does
  - Implementation: Discuss how it works, bonus for what didn’t work
  - Speculation: Future directions/where this could go?
Need Ideas, Inspiration, Resources?
- Check out the new AI Hackathon Stack page in this newsletter’s accompanying GitHub repo
- Ask for what you need on the Discord.

Demo Day SF Location

It’s the place to be this Friday (see video in tweet). Sign up here (and join the Discord)!

Join us from 1pm onwards to cowork and talk AI!
Come meet amazing sponsors and fellow hackers.
Demos & voting will start at 5pm (may move earlier if we have too many demos)
There’s a DJ, food, and the afterparty goes til 10pm!

swyx 🤖 @swyx

😱 thought we'd get 10 people for a smol hackathon but did not expect ~200 signing up so @FanaHOVA and I are upgrading our Latent Space Demo Day this Friday! If you have @LangChainAI, @OpenAI, devtools, and AI Infra ideas, stay tuned for tmr's announcement Quick preview 🔽

Sounds great, good for you… what about the rest of us!

The podcast is coming along; we’ve recorded two episodes and have our next two lined up soon. And of course we’re excited to share the Demo Day winners with you, together with more great writeups on the emerging Latent Space. We are writing this from the Jasper GenAI conference today and the energy is electric!

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