2025 · Recap
What last year looked like.
3 teams · 3 customer judges · 1 winner
Three teams. One week of build. One night of show.
A hackathon is a build sprint: small teams give themselves one week to design, code, and ship a working prototype — start to finish, no spec, no committee. Then they show what they made.
Hackathon Demo Night is the showcase. Three USLege teams take the stage, demo their builds live (no slides), and an auditorium of customers, legislators, lobbyists, advocacy partners, and investors votes in real time on which one delivers the most value to the people doing the work.
Idol-style panel, audience vote, real prizes. Practitioners watch practitioners ship. The auditorium decides which build delivers the most value to the people doing the work.
Three teams of USLege builders pick a problem, lock heads, and ship. No spec, no committee — just one week to put something real on stage.
Each team gets the stage. Live demo, no slides allowed. Customer judges press from the panel. Hot lights, hot takes, no edits.
The auditorium votes in real time. Customers, legislators, lobbyists, partners, investors — all picking the winner. Real money, real plaque.
Last year we ran the hackathon with three customer judges. This year we're scaling it up — an auditorium of the people who actually use this stuff, voting on the same stage. It's the most honest product review we know how to run.
Two minutes. We need a head count and a guest list to make the night work — doors open at noon, show starts sharp at 12:15. Lunch will be served.