Applied AI
Agents that ship.
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Diiirect Hack is our upcoming in-person hackathon series — different city, different topic, one weekend, one challenge. We're lining up the first edition now. Leave your email and you'll be first to know when applications open.
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We'll read every application. Tell us what you've shipped, who you ship with, and why this topic. Selective by design.
Friday night kickoff in the host city. The brief drops. You meet your team if you don't already have one.
48 hours, in-person. Mentors from sponsor companies float through. Sleep is optional. Coffee is not.
Sunday afternoon. Six minutes on stage to a room of judges, sponsors, and companies hiring. Prizes that night.
Every edition picks a topic that deserves 48 hours and a room of senior operators. No theme-park JavaScript demos — these are the categories we keep coming back to.
Agents that ship.
From paper to PR.
Wet × dry lab.
Measurable impact.
Voice as the surface.
Physical systems.
Patient outcomes.
Trust at the protocol.
Software that respects taste.
DevX as the moat.
Beyond the rectangle.
Adversarial-first.
48 hours, one playable.
Atoms that ship bits.
Software for makers.
Money that flows differently.
Programmable money, programmable trust.
Models that don't bite.
Pipelines that don't break at 3 a.m.
Multiplayer everything.
Software with coordinates.
Software everyone can use.
Algorithms before hardware.
Government that ships.
Models with a director's eye.
Watts as data.
Atoms moving on time.
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