1st Place
Tekton
ekton is an evidence-driven 3D digital reconstruction platform for ancient architecture, specializing in the preservation and visualization of Tang Dynasty timber-frame buildings.
culture/heritagedev tools
Holly Tang, Austin Burgess
AI lab hackathons, 2025 to now
What got built, and what won.
Every submission from hackathons run by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and the other big labs, with the winners marked and the code linked.
- projects
- 31,980
- hackathons
- 93
- award winners
- 585
- inferred from GitHub
- 433
1st Place | Education
Mechanica — A Digital Museum of Ancient Chinese Machines
Four lost ancient Chinese machines reborn as physically-simulated, source-cited interactive exhibits — with a GPT-5.6 docent that refuses to hallucinate.
culture/heritagescience
Caleb0796 wei, yukunl Li, O Z
ElevenLabs Challenge: Third Place
Memoria: The Biographer Agent
A voice-first app designed for the elderly to preserve their life stories without needing to type or use complex interfaces.
voiceculture/heritage
Lasse Stilvang
Best of Creative Storytellers
Sankofa
Transforming fragmented family history into living, breathing, multimodal stories.
culture/heritagevoice
Jeremiah Somoine
WebMCP Challenge Winners
MASIL — Reconnecting Korean Elders to Creative Life
Korean elders living alone lose access to creative spaces. Only the web remains; its UI fails them. WebMCP turns Agent access into human access—restoring creative life and expanding what’s possible.
accessibilityculture/heritage
Sangjoon Son
Runner-up
Spoken Letter
Distance shouldn't mean silence. Spoken Letter lets any family member or friend record a story in their own voice and send it to a child's Yoto. Any story, screen-free, and parents approve each one.
voiceculture/heritage
Juan González Ponce, Jordan Lynn
20 Category Winners
Mapping 19th Century Jewish Charity in New York
An interactive historical map tracing the divide between poverty and philanthropy in immigrant-era Manhattan—built on Google Maps Platform from a forgotten 1899 charity ledger.
culture/heritage
Aravind Ajith, Adhun Anand, Sarath AR +1
20 Category Winners
The Signal Remains
U2’s tours remapped with styled Google Maps, tracing a cultural signal across continents. Hosted in the cloud for a dynamic, navigation-driven map narrative of late 20th-century history.
culture/heritagecreative/music
20 Category Winners
Daryaft
A visual tour guide to Mount Fuji
culture/heritage
Ziya Uddin
Best of Challenge 1: Wild Card
Historic Matchup Simulator
Imagine creating matchups between any MLB teams throughout baseball history. With MLB StatsAPI data and Google Gemini, you can.
scienceculture/heritage
Finalist
Revive
Revive brings back video games that can no longer be played, using only the gameplay footage that survives on YouTube.
culture/heritageagents
Gautam Anand, Prathyek Poojary, Suhurrith Adhikari
Finalist
Vibe Coding Collective
This is a permanent “Museum of Vibe Coding”, built by Vibe Coding Collective, an international nonprofit.
dev toolsculture/heritage
Dan Porder, Sofiia Matsiutsia, Uvin Withana +1
Anaspace
Anaspace is a cultural exploration app for iOS.
creative/musicculture/heritage
Ammon Haggerty
K-UAM One Team
서울은 세계에서 가장 고밀도 도시 중 하나입니다.
voiceculture/heritage
DANIEL KIM, sehun jeong, Jiyeon You +1
Digwiki
The platform aims to build a continuous, long-term body of knowledge around cultural content such as idols, musicals, films, books, and video media.
culture/heritageagents
Jae Heo, Jangmin Lee, Haejune Lee +1
TimeFold
TimeFold - TIME TRAVEL — Step Inside Any Moment in Time.
culture/heritagevision
Yosun Chang
TreeMomo
TreeMomo: film a real tree, find the Momo living in it.
visionculture/heritage
Christopher MacGregor
Becca Meyer - Bite Quest
New York has a line problem, and the small businesses that make this city so great are suffering because of it.
culture/heritage
Becca Meyer
Family
Family is where our story begins.
culture/heritage
Mike Koch
Watt & Wonder
Watt & Wonder is an AI-powered concept-design studio for beautiful, site-specific data centers.
culture/heritageproductivity
Oscar Hong, Ali Jeffrey Razfar, Javokhir Shomuratov
Sân Chơi
AI-hosted Vietnamese folk playground: Ô ăn quan, Bầu cua, Múa rối nước, Gióng's Iron Garage & Rồng rắn lên mây — 5 games, 21 hang-proof WebMCP tools. sanchoi.app
culture/heritageagents
Tri Nguyen
MOHAE · Explore Korea
Explore unknown, get random but curated events. Talk and share context with agent. Plan own agents with all participants in travel.
agentsculture/heritage
Dong Hyeon An
Seedy Research
We make un-agentable archives agentable.
scienceculture/heritageagents
Kasidit Sermsri, Itthiwat ว่องกิตติพงษ์
Tracebound — Provenance Research Without Inventing History
An evidence-bound WebMCP workbench where agents map provenance without manufacturing certainty.
culture/heritageagents
Maxim Salnikov
memory-canvas
A bilingual family memory canvas where people and AI reconstruct history from stories, photos, and documents—keeping sources, uncertainty, and contradictions visible
culture/heritage
Ngọc Quý Trần
AyMateo Tickets
An agent-native ticketing experience where people and AI agents discover, compare, reserve, and prepare tickets for Bolivian cultural events together using WebMCP.
culture/heritageproductivity
AyMateo-Code Quiroz Helguerp
Le Monde des Personnages IA
A living world map where humans and ChatGPT create, place, connect, test and refine historical, mythological and imaginary AI characters through WebMCP.
culture/heritagecreative/musicagents
Nicolas Vuillier
Amaphupho WebMCP
Culturally grounded African dream insight that AI agents can safely invoke on the open web.
culture/heritageagents
Enzo Snyman
Keepsake
A living family timeline written by an elder, her family, and their agent. Grandma tells a story; it becomes a card; the family asks the next question.
culture/heritageagents
Nelson Lai
RE:TURN
A living museum record rebuilt by communities, curators, and WebMCP agents. An agent can help reconstruct history, it cannot decide whose history becomes official.
culture/heritageagents
DongHoon Lee, DOYOON SUNG
Alun Agent Desk
A human–agent cultural intelligence workspace that turns traceable AI-and-music evidence into policy-ready briefs without hiding uncertainty or replacing judgment.
culture/heritageagents
Iman Fattah
Theme Traces
Remix meaning and interpretations across texts.
culture/heritageeducation
Seejay James
An AI Agent and webMCP Walked Into a Museum...
Museum collections shouldn’t stay behind glass. Search major art museum collections, build a private gallery, and let an AI agent create curated art exhibitions for you. For the art historian inside.
culture/heritageagents
Jen Looper
MindRaker
They say that God speaks to us through dreams and visions. If there was a tool you could use to decode this god code would you use it? MindRaker Is this tool.
culture/heritage
George Gallagher
Wadi: design and customize a Konkan house with your AI agent
Structurally sound homes for families who couldn't afford an architect: an agent codes a Konkan home into a 3D model contractors build from, and owners customize it by chatting with a WebMCP agent.
agentsculture/heritage
Ashutosh Bijoor, Nischal Doshi, Arathi Shamabhatta +1
Praxa
Praxa turns theatre research into human–agent collaboration: WebMCP tools search trusted sources, compare productions, and return page-level citations.
culture/heritageagents
KOLAPO ADEDIPE
Kurdish Calendar Agent
Plan Kurdish events across calendars and time zones with WebMCP.
culture/heritageproductivity
Hooshyar Majidiyan
MyProvence Agent-Ready
The official Provence tourism catalogue, rebuilt as a shared stage where you and your agent explore a real destination together, and you watch it happen.
culture/heritageagents
Vincent Sider, Gilles ROLLAND, Cédric COMBRIE
Gallery 402
A virtual museum where every door costs a cent or two over HTTP 402 — you look at the paintings; your agent reads the page's WebMCP tools, plans your own tour, and pays admission on-chain.
culture/heritageagents
Steve Smith
Mostra d'Arte: The Agent-Native Art Gallery
Where human and AI explore art together: a digital gallery where the agent uses WebMCP tools to direct camera focus, illuminate hidden brushstrokes, and lead tours.
culture/heritageagents
Veronika Kashtanova
Entrelíneas
Una librería de segunda mano donde cada libro es un ejemplar único
culture/heritage
Lic Jose Marte
Leafy — Satyoraism Reflection
Leafy is an AI reflection guide that helps users explore life events through the philosophy of Satyoraism, while promoting the book through short extracts and relevant reading recommendations.
culture/heritageagents
Janet Bhardwaj
Longhand
The National Archives holds 34 million records. Most handwritten pages were never transcribed, so nobody can find them. Longhand reads one, asks what it cannot settle, and refuses to write unproven.
culture/heritagevision
Yehor Ivashchenko
Rootstory Evidence Agent
Rootstory Evidence Agent autonomously audits family trees, researches unsupported people with Gemini, verifies sources, and proposes reversible, human-approved repairs—while families carry on.
culture/heritageagents
Pranuthi Mangu Rachuri
KultureSync
KultureSync prevents streaming systems from flattening Gqom/Amapiano. We enable pluralistic discovery so South African creators are visible and recommendation becomes active cultural preservation.
culture/heritagecreative/music
Shailoh Peterson
Olúkó: Autonomous Cultural AI Pedagogical Companion
Autonomous, culturally grounded AI companion ending African Edtech dropouts via cognitive scarcity regulation, West African mental models, animated motion SVGs, and sovereign voice
educationculture/heritagevoice
Adebayo Kareem
Astro AI
Ancient astrology meets the AI era. Chat with specialized AI agents grounded in a dynamic knowledge graph of your unique birth chart.
culture/heritageagents
Vrishabh Jain
BanglaVerse AI: Agentic Bengali Literature Assistant
A Gemini-powered agent that analyzes Bengali literary texts, creates research outlines, produces bilingual summaries and supports culturally grounded teaching and learning.
educationculture/heritage
Prof. Dr. Milton Biswas
AstroDrishti
“Ancient Wisdom, Modern Astrology.”
culture/heritage
Heena .
Sampan
A voice companion that phones an elderly parent, listens, and remembers across months , turning a lifetime of spoken stories into a family memory map.
voiceculture/heritage
low108 Low
Language Recovery OS
Autonomous agents transcribe an endangered-language archive, retrieve evidence and flag conflicts. A deterministic Python engine, never the model, decides what's accepted and what a human must check.
culture/heritageagents
José Yobán Rodríguez
TAKHRIJ — Agentic Arabic Attestation
An agentic system that separates Arabic text matches from historically valid authorial attestations using Gemini, Google ADK, and deterministic evidence verification.
culture/heritageagents
Zuhair Kazbour
KOINE
a translation gate that cannot silently lie
culture/heritage
Anna Tchijova
Porta360
Travel the world in 360° in your native language!
culture/heritageeducation
Oleksandr Sokolov
CARBON DATED POLLUTION METAPHYSICS
METAPHYSICS TAKING OUT DATES IN OUR BOOKS WITH A PEN THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF APPLE 1SBN 10 1982134593 ISBN 13 978-1982134594 AUTHOR DAVID POGUE
culture/heritage
Cameo Molina
BPE Agentic Production
Agentic Scripture production with AI orchestration, deterministic rules, and human authority.
culture/heritageagents
A Peters
Kinlily
Memories you can hear — your family's story, in their own voices.
culture/heritagevoice
Manjunath Kodanda Reddy
LocalCut
For authentic cultural adaptation of scenes shot in English.
culture/heritagecreative/music
Anthahkarana NONE
Dead Pixel
A Catalog Resurrection Agent System with Parallel as the live web intelligence layer
agentsculture/heritage
Unliteral
Translate the culture, not just the words.
culture/heritageeducation
Sakshi Karwade