HarborHack 2025-In-Person Hackathon

HarborHack 2025 For one weekend, discover how far you can push the frontier of vibecoding with AI. The Spirit of HarborkHack 2025: VibeHacking! Build something that could only exist through vibecoding, not just a shortcut for routine coding tasks, but a project that reveals AI’s most interesting potential. If it feels a little risky, you’re on the right track. The Experience Friday: Kickoff + team formation. Saturday: Work Day: Push AI tools until they surprise you.Sunday: Demo something bold enough that people can’t believe it was built in a weekend! Project Examples Zero-Keystroke Startup A team builds a working app : front end, back end, live deployment,  entirely through prompts. Not a single line of code written by hand. The product doesn’t have to be flawless; it has to prove the model.Why it matters: If you can ship a product in 48 hours by “vibing” with AI, that’s not just a hackathon project, t’s a glimpse of the next wave of entrepreneurship. The Self-Evolving Codebase A team creates a system where the codebase rewrites itself over the weekend. You set initial goals or constraints, and the AI continuously tests, refactors, and expands its own code while you guide its direction. By Sunday, you demo a living, mutating project that has grown itself under human oversight. Why it matters: It’s a glimpse of autonomous software development. The idea that code can evolve on its own with humans as curators rather than line by line authors. The Impossible Interface Build an interface that lets people interact with software beyond text and clicks. For example:

Drawing a rough sketch : AI turns it into a working app screen.

Speaking a story out loud : AI converts it into interactive logic.

Gestures on a canvas : AI interprets them as code instructions.

Why it matters: It shows that coding doesn’t have to look like “coding” at all. It reframes the act of building software as something anyone can do if they can express themselves. By Sunday, participants demo an app created through speech, sketches, or gestures, bypassing the keyboard entirely. Judging Lens

Ambition: Did you attempt something only AI makes possible?

Execution: Does it run? Even if rough, can we see the future in it?

Originality: Is it a copy of yesterday’s tools, or tomorrow’s?

Cultural Impact: Does it feel like it matters beyond this hackathon?

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