Neon-Hosted Personal Agents Hackathon in SF Offers $279,500 Prize Pool
matei_zaharia · x · 2026-10-01
Neon is hosting Build Personal Agents Hack on Oct 4 at Terra Gallery in San Francisco, kicking off SF Tech Week with 200 hackers building personal agents for inbox management, smart home control, and daily tasks.
Key points:
- $279,500 total prize pool plus $1,625 in credits per hacker; first place gets $100k Neon AI Gateway credits (or $25k cash per member) and $50k Fly.io credits
- Co-host stack includes Neon, Mastra, Exa, Fly.io, Kernel, Executor (YC), Assistant UI (YC), and AgentMail (YC)
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