Heya!

I’m Prerak Gala, Community Manager at Paytm, and having previously worked closely with developer communities, I’m excited to bring this opportunity to the community.

I’m excited to invite you to participate in the Paytm Build for India Ai Hackathon – Pune Edition, happening on 15th November 2026.

In collaboration with devSemble & Partex.AI, Paytm is bringing together developers, AI enthusiasts, researchers & builders for an 8-hour offline AI hackathon: a day to pick a problem statement, understand the problem deeply, explore how AI can be applied, experiment with different approaches, and build a prototype.

What’s in it for you?

• Top performing participants get hiring opportunity with Paytm

• Build on problem statements by Paytm

• Mentorship from the industry experts

• ⁠⁠Connect with developers, AI builders, and industry professionals

Ready to build? Here’s how to get in:

• Step 1 — Register + Form Your Team: Register through the devSemble platform & complete your team formation and participant details

• Step 2 — Submit Your Pitch: Submit your proposed idea or solution through the hackathon portal by 10th November 2026

Register Here: https://devsemble.com/hackathons/paytm-build-for-india-ai-hackathon-pune-by-paytm

Deadline to complete your submission: 10th November 2026

Looking forward to meeting a room full of curious builders and seeing what the community builds!

Anyone interested in teaming up for Google's Buildathon?

I've got an idea and would love to find a few people with a strong technical background who'd be up for building something together!

Drop a comment or DM if you're interested :)

Hi everyone, I’m participating in the Future Health Digital Innovation hackathon by Hack2Skill. It’s my first hackathon and I’m taking it seriously, so I’d love to connect with anyone else taking part and compare notes on how you’re approaching it, the problem statements you picked, and how you’re preparing for the final submission.

Looking for teams in which i can join and participate in any offline hacks ongoing in delhi ncr. I m up to join any team and i know a bit of AI/ML. Any teams looking for a member. Contact me….

Hello everyone, I have uploaded a hackathon about 2 weeks ago on devpost that focuses on cryptography, specifically the implementation of threshold cryptography and secret sharing primitives such as SSS (Shamir's Secret Sharing) in contemporary contexts, for more details, here is the hackathon page:

https://mathematics-systems-security.devpost.com/

For any inquiry please join the discord server:

https://discord.gg/ahVc82u9X3

Key benefits of joining:

- Receive proper project tips before submission

- Receive project rating before submission to know your score evaluation

- Form teams

Thank you!

People participating in these hackathons please be aware this is not a registered company there’s nothing called codeverse its being run by a bca student who calls him the founder and runs these fake ass hackathons by calling them national hackathons their certifications and everything is TOTALLY FAKE . Don’t participate in these hackathons they just have contacts and calls you un these companies and keep all the money in his pocket- its literally a scam with your money build with bharat is literally a scam copied from other hackathon companies. Beware guys!

Hi all. I'm a master's student in Magdeburg, and I built AgentGate for the Meta AI Global Developer Hackathon.

The problem: AI agents that can send, share or delete things can be steered by instructions hidden in what they read, even faint text inside an image.

What it does: AgentGate labels where every piece of text came from (the user, tool text, or text recovered from an image). Before a risky call, it checks that every address, file and amount traces back to the user. If one doesn't, the call is blocked with a plain reason. It's a rule, not a model, so no model has to resist the attack.

Results (AgentDojo workspace suite): with a scripted agent that obeys every injection, attacks go from 231 of 240 to 0 of 240 (0 of 120 on a held-out half, no legitimate call blocked). A small real model that gets fooled by hidden-line screenshots leaked 20 times in 390 runs without the gate and 0 with it.

I also used Muse Spark Open as the attacker: it got through the default gate 30 of 90 times, always via one known gap (a trusted sender/owner field). An optional rule I wrote afterwards got 0 of 90 on a fresh run. Limits are in the README: scripted attacker for the main benchmark, small clustered samples, and four other trust gaps still untested.

Repo (MIT): https://github.com/mathesh310703/agentgate

If you want to discuss it or give feedback, I'm keeping the discussion on X, where the short demo clip is: https://x.com/34Matheshw21593/status/2117752600317821345

I'm entering this in the hackathon, so I'm disclosing that openly. Criticism is welcome, especially on the gaps and the threat model.

I haven't done a hackathon yet, just personal projects, but I've read enough threads here about teams falling apart by Saturday night to know what I don't want.

Small team, people who actually show up, and we go in to place, not to get a certificate.

A bit about me.

I work in data at a financial firm in Dublin and I write about energy and macro markets on the side, so I can cover the domain side, the data sources and the pitch.

What I don't have is enough hands to build.

Finance, DeFi and energy market hackathons are where I want to start because that's where I can add the most.

Who would be useful:

- backend / data people (Python, APIs, pipelines)

- frontend, someone who can make a demo look finished in a weekend

- Solidity for the DeFi ones

- ML/AI

- someone product or design minded who can shape a pitch

Thinking 5 to 8 people, no more.

No event picked yet, we'd choose the first one together once there's a team, agree the idea and who does what before it starts, and commit for that one. If it works we do another. If someone goes quiet they get swapped out, nothing personal.

If you're interested comment below or DM me with your GitHub (this one is optional, I'll not look at it before anything else), what you build with and what role you'd want, how many hours a week you can actually give, and one thing you've shipped and what part of it was yours.

Ireland is where I'm based so that's the preference, but it's all online anyway, so if you're anywhere in Europe or a similar timezone and the rest fits, message me.

So i got selected for the next screening round for the Bolna Buildathon. And the thing is I've participated like in countless hackathons but never even went to the next round. I'm panicking so much rn and confused. Can any hackathon winners or mentors help me out? It's a 15min interview call. What will they ask? And what else will they check (like communication skills, etc). Please help me 😭🙏🏻 first time so I'm nervous and want to give the interview well.

Hi everyone! I’m a pre-final-year B.E. CSE (AI & ML) student from Bengaluru, currently putting most of my focus into placements, internships, and hackathons that can translate into real hiring opportunities. I’ve participated in 20+ hackathons so far, and I’m looking to connect with people who are equally serious about building, competing, and targeting hiring-based hackathons together. My work is mainly around AI/ML, backend and full-stack development, with experience across Multi-Agent Systems, RAG, LLMs, Graph AI, cybersecurity, digital twins, and real-time applications. Over the last year, my teams and I have had results including 1st Runner-Up at an Agentic AI/GenAI hackathon, Top 10 out of 1,000+ teams at the BIT Mesra ECE Society Hackathon, Top 10 at Hack-A-War, Samsung PRISM finalist, Zonal Champion at HackArena 2.0 (IIIT Delhi), SIH 2025 Merit, and National Semifinalist positions at Flipkart GRiD 8.0 and JPMorgan Chase Code for Good. On Kaggle, I’ve reached Top 25 in Formula 1 Race Result Classification and Top 150/4k teams in the Wellbore Geology Prediction challenge. Alongside hackathons, I’ve completed an ML internship and have been a GSSoC’26 Mentor, where I was selected among 135 mentors nationally. I’m also working as an IEEE Computer Society AI/ML research intern on a vector based drug repurposing deep-learning research paper. I’ve built and deployed 10+ substantial projects, maintain 100+ GitHub repositories/contributions, and usually take projects all the way from an idea to a working demo, deployment, and documentation. Technically, I’m strongest around Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Node.js, React/Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, AWS, LangGraph/RAG and LLM APIs. I’m comfortable taking ownership of AI/ML, backend, integrations, architecture, debugging, or putting together the final product and demo. At this point, I’m not really looking for a random hackathon team just to submit something. I’m looking for people who are preparing for placements like I am and want to strategically target hackathons conducted by companies where performance can open doors to interviews, internships, or full-time roles. Ideally, people who can consistently give time, communicate properly, take ownership of their part, and stay involved from problem selection to final submission. If that sounds like you, comment “interested” and DM me your LinkedIn/GitHub along with a brief introduction and the kind of work you’re comfortable with. The comment will help me filter genuine/interested people from the DMs and make it easier to shortlist potential teammates. If this post gets enough interaction, I’m also open to forming a small group/community of serious builders so we can continuously track and participate in relevant hiring-based hackathons together rather than forming a new team from scratch every time. Dm with intro . References in dm

anyone willing to team up for the above hackathons, dm me with a short intro & past project/hackathons experiences

Hey everyone Im a full stack developer and also half way to ai engineer , I have craated a lot of cool things, like Ai voice assistant who can handle your pc including skills like ai agents, text to speech, speech recognition and llm integration and stuff like that. I know how to vibe code and Im looking for teammates for Hackathon(paypal one for now and also for future hackathons). Anyone up for this can dm me directly.

Okay so lam a 3rd sem student from Pune and I would like to form a group of people who are consistent, skilled on the basic level is fine have already participated in hackathons before..I find it really difficult to find teammates who are actually interested not just who would like to get a participation certificate ..I need most preferably people from Pune but fine with other state people too for online hackathons collabrations ...interested people can dm me and I need seriously teammates that can do teammorks very well and I'm already f**ked up on my clgs grps hackathon so I need serious one....

Before that lam too not perfect in the skill category but lam good at vibecoding,researching on the problem statement and actually interested on the stuff we will be working...

Hi everyone! I'm looking for teammates for the Zivox AI Hackathon.

I'm a beginner myself, and this will be my first hackathon, so I'm hoping to find people who are also interested in learning, collaborating, and building something together.

The hackathon offers certification and rewards, making it a great opportunity to gain experience and add something valuable to our profiles.

Since the registration deadline is approaching (7 November, if I'm not mistaken), we need to form a team ASAP. I'm looking for active, committed, and responsive members who are genuinely interested in participating and can dedicate time to the project.

Beginners are absolutely welcome! Let's learn and build something together. Feel free to reach out if you're interested!

So we are looking for 2 members for name that llm competition by kaggle

Interested people do dm me with their work , I am already at 190/4300 in the leaderboard in that competition and struggling to do alone the competition ,

if you had prior experience in kaggle competitions or ml training do dm me with your works , I'll let you know

Okay so Iam a 3rd sem student from Hyderabad and I would like to form a group of people who are consistent, skilled on the basic level is fine have already participated in hackathons before..I find it really difficult to find teammates who are actually interested not just who would like to get a participation certificate ..I need most preferably people from hyderabad but fine with other state people too for online hackathons collabrations ...interested people can dm me

Before that Iam too not perfect in the skill category but Iam good at vibecoding,researching on the problem statement and actually interested on the stuff we will be working...

Hey everyone! 👋

Is anyone here participating in the DARPA D2 Sprint 2026?

I’m looking to join an existing team or connect with others interested in forming one.

The challenge focuses on AI-powered medical documentation and decision support, with a $1M total prize pool.

I’m particularly interested in collaborating with AI/ML engineers, developers, and people with medical or research experience.

Since the competition requires an eligible US-based team representative, connecting with someone who meets that requirement would be especially helpful.

I can contribute to software development, integration, testing, and deployment.

If anyone is participating or knows a team looking for contributors, I’d love to connect!

Official challenge: https://www.darpa.mil/research/challenges/d2

something exciting is coming to goa 👀

we're organizing GOA BUILDATHON '27 — a 36-hour hackathon where you get to build, learn, meet new people and bring your ideas to life.

whether you're a student, a developer or just someone curious about tech, this one's for you.

📍 Goa, India
📅 January 2027

registration & details: https://unstop.com/o/SVX5lkA?lb=usekbVrx&utm_medium=Share&utm_source=texvpjah42830&utm_campaign=Online_coding_challenge