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YC's First-Ever Growth Hackathon
A 24-hour hackathon for GTM engineers building AI growth tools & workflows. $15,000 in prizes.
Growth Engineering is one of the fastest-emerging functions in tech.
The intersection of AI, growth, & revenue operations is creating a new category of growth engineer who writes code, runs experiments, automates their work with AI, & owns the entire growth pipeline.
If that sounds like you, we'd be honored to invite you out to the YC office in San Francisco for the first-ever YC Growth Hackathon.
Over the span of 24 hours, you'll build on the bleeding edge of growth, GTM, sales, data analytics, & RavOps.
We are being extremely selective & reviewing every application closely to ensure a high quality bar. Applications with little or no effort will not be considered. We will be turning people away at the door.
Tracks
Sales Cyborgs: AI-Enhanced Sales
AI Ad Factories: AI Advertising
Reading Minds: Agentic Analytics, Signal Detection, Churn, & Lead-Building
Revenue on Autopilot: Cold Outbound & Pipeline Automation
Zero to One: AI-Enhanced PLG & Onboarding
Algorithm Hacking: AI Social Media & Virality Engines
Prizes & API Credits
Hackathon winners will receive >$15,000 in prizes. The overall winner may be invited to interview for Y Combinator's Fall 2026 Batch.
All participants will receive the following benefits:
$50 OpenAI API Credits
$TBA Cursor Credits
Free access to Nexus by ThirdLayer
Mentorship from some of YC's best growth leads
Judges & Mentors
Participants will receive mentorship from growth engineers & founders who have been responsible for millions of dollars in deals closed, thousands of paying users through UGC/astroturfing campaigns, & some of the largest virality campaigns in SF.
Rules & Logistics
Please plan to arrive on time. We will start kickoff promptly at 5pm. If you miss kickoff you will not receive critical information & will not be eligible to receive API credits.
Judging will take place Sunday starting at 5pm.
Teams may be up to 4 people.
You cannot work on projects started prior to the hackathon.
You can, of course, work on a feature or tool that would integrate into your pre-existing project, however it must be built in an entirely separate codebase.
Projects must be open-sourced on GitHub for the duration of the hackathon. You are free to close-source after the event is over.
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