# AI Build Night vol. 3

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> Source: https://clusterhack.dev/event/ai-build-night-vol-3/
> Generated: 2026-08-29 04:36

## Overview
- Status: ended
- Applications: closed
- Type: Hackathon
- Topic: One evening: doors at 19:00, the gong at 23:58, a page for every project.
- Starts: 2026-07-29 19:00 (America/Chicago)
- Duration (hours): 7
- Location: Chicago, Logan Square
- City: Chicago
- Audience: Anyone who wanted to finish something small in one evening. No experience bar, no team required at the door.
- Minimum age: —
- Team size: ?–?

## Stats
- Teams: 7
- Submitted projects: 7
- Votes cast: 50
- Winners published: yes

## Description
Doors at seven, one gong at 23:58, winners read out at half past one. Seven teams finished something small enough to show on a laptop: a cook-what-you-have helper, a last-train alert, a receipt splitter. Three judges wrote a line to every team that shipped, not only to the ones that placed, and everyone who stayed voted for someone else's project before going home.

## Tracks / nominations
- Best Overall Product: Recognition track: Best Overall Product.
- Best Technical Build: Recognition track: Best Technical Build.
- Crowd Favorite: Recognition track: Crowd Favorite.

## Judging
Criteria (weight, max score):
- Impact (weight 3, /10): —
- Technical execution (weight 2, /10): —
- Product & design (weight 2, /10): —
- Demo & pitch (weight 1, /10): —
Judges: Maya Reyes, Tomas Vogel, Ada Nurtas

## Teams (7)
- Two Forks — members: 1, nomination: Best Overall Product, readiness: 100%
- Late Shift — members: 1, nomination: Best Technical Build, readiness: 93%
- Second Breakfast — members: 1, nomination: Crowd Favorite, readiness: 72%
- Cold Brew Committee — members: 1, nomination: Best Overall Product, readiness: 72%
- Wrong Room — members: 1, nomination: Best Technical Build, readiness: 93%
- Six Chairs — members: 1, nomination: Crowd Favorite, readiness: 88%
- Paper Cuts — members: 1, nomination: Best Overall Product, readiness: 92%

## Projects / submissions (7)
### Zine — team Paper Cuts
- Tagline: turns a folder of photos into an eight-page zine you can print.
- Nomination: Best Overall Product
- Demo: https://clusterhack.dev/showcase/
- Video: —
- Repository: —
- Votes: 7
- Judge score (weighted): 55.667
Description: Zine — turns a folder of photos into an eight-page zine you can print. Built in one evening at AI Build Night vol. 3, between the doors and the gong.

### Whose Turn — team Six Chairs
- Tagline: a shared list that decides who cooks dinner tonight.
- Nomination: Crowd Favorite
- Demo: https://clusterhack.dev/showcase/
- Video: —
- Repository: —
- Votes: 8
- Judge score (weighted): 61.333
Description: Whose Turn — a shared list that decides who cooks dinner tonight. Built in one evening at AI Build Night vol. 3, between the doors and the gong.

### Nametag — team Wrong Room
- Tagline: name badges for a room of forty, printed in two minutes.
- Nomination: Best Technical Build
- Demo: https://clusterhack.dev/showcase/
- Video: —
- Repository: —
- Votes: 9
- Judge score (weighted): 57.333
Description: Nametag — name badges for a room of forty, printed in two minutes. Built in one evening at AI Build Night vol. 3, between the doors and the gong.

### Laundry Roulette — team Cold Brew Committee
- Tagline: which washing machine in the dorm is free right now.
- Nomination: Best Overall Product
- Demo: https://clusterhack.dev/showcase/
- Video: —
- Repository: —
- Votes: 8
- Judge score (weighted): 56.667
Description: Laundry Roulette — which washing machine in the dorm is free right now. Built in one evening at AI Build Night vol. 3, between the doors and the gong.

### Split It — team Second Breakfast
- Tagline: photograph the receipt, everyone gets their number.
- Nomination: Crowd Favorite
- Demo: https://clusterhack.dev/showcase/
- Video: —
- Repository: —
- Votes: 6
- Judge score (weighted): 58.333
Description: Split It — photograph the receipt, everyone gets their number. Built in one evening at AI Build Night vol. 3, between the doors and the gong.

### Night Bus — team Late Shift
- Tagline: last-train alerts for one city.
- Nomination: Best Technical Build
- Demo: https://clusterhack.dev/showcase/
- Video: —
- Repository: —
- Votes: 7
- Judge score (weighted): 63.0
Description: Night Bus — last-train alerts for one city. Built in one evening at AI Build Night vol. 3, between the doors and the gong.

### Pantry — team Two Forks
- Tagline: what's in the fridge, from one photo.
- Nomination: Best Overall Product
- Demo: https://clusterhack.dev/showcase/
- Video: —
- Repository: —
- Votes: 5
- Judge score (weighted): 61.333
Description: Pantry — what's in the fridge, from one photo. Built in one evening at AI Build Night vol. 3, between the doors and the gong.

## Leaderboard
1. Night Bus — judge score 63.0, votes 7
2. Pantry — judge score 61.333, votes 5
3. Whose Turn — judge score 61.333, votes 8
4. Split It — judge score 58.333, votes 6
5. Nametag — judge score 57.333, votes 9
6. Laundry Roulette — judge score 56.667, votes 8
7. Zine — judge score 55.667, votes 7

## Winners
- Best Overall Product: #2 Two Forks — The one demo that survived a stranger's fridge. — Priya, host
- Best Technical Build: #1 Late Shift — Two strangers at 19:00, an alert that fired on stage at 23:40. — Priya, host
- Crowd Favorite: #3 Six Chairs — The smallest idea of the night and the one people took home. — Priya, host

## Organizers
- priya.raman