About ReverieHacks 2026

Virtual, three weeks, worldwide — whether you ship hardware, AI, apps, or ideas, you have a place to build. Not a pressure cooker — a creative playground built by high schoolers, for builders from 100 countries.

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Builders

2,125

Largest high-school hackathon

Countries

100

Live from Devpost sheet

Prize pool

$3.2M+

valuation

Duration

23 days

August 2–24, 2026

Our mission

A hackathon that feels like a playground, not a pressure cooker

ReverieHacks was started by 5 high schoolers who were tired of hackathons that reward pitching over building. For three weeks, builders from 100 countries create things they actually care about — guided by mentors from Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI, Coinbase and more, not just judged by them.

Whether you’re in Ideathon sketching your first roadmap, or in Embedded soldering your tenth PCB, you have a track that respects your craft. All tracks judged equally.

100% virtual Beginner friendly 100 countries

The journey

How ReverieHacks flows

From first Discord message to final demo — here’s what three weeks actually look like.

Days 1-3

Register & Explore

Join Discord, pick a track, find teammates across timezones. Workshops start day one — no experience required.

Week 1

Ideate & Plan

Validate your idea with mentors from Meta, Amazon, OpenAI. Office hours, sponsor demos, and bounty reveals.

Weeks 1-3

Build & Ship

Three weeks of focused building. Daily standups in Discord, async help from organizers who have shipped before.

Final Days

Submit & Celebrate

Devpost submission, demo videos, judging by 30+ industry leaders. Winners announced live — then internships & prizes.

Tracks

Six ways to build

Pick one, go deep. Every track has dedicated judges, bounties, and prizes. Click a card to see what belongs there.

Ideathon

Validate ambitious ideas into actionable roadmaps. For strategists, designers, first-time hackers.

ML & Prompt

ML & Prompt Engineering

Build AI workflows with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. RAG, agents, fine-tuning.

Software

Software Development

Platforms and tools solving real-world problems. Full-stack, devtools, open-source.

Datathon

ML & data science for real insights. Clean, model, visualize, publish.

Embedded

Embedded Systems

PCB, ECAD, firmware, robotics. If it blinks or moves, it counts.

App Dev

App Development

iOS & Android accessible experiences. Ship something people can tap.

Prizes

What you can win — for real

Not swag filler. We counted: $3.2M+ total valuation across cash, internships, credits, and tools you’ll actually use. Here’s the full breakdown — no hidden “$10k+” understatement.

$1,250 cash

Split across first & second place in all six tracks. Real money, not credits — wired straight to you.

Wired via Devpost

6 internships

At Learner Labs — ML & Ideathon winners ship with a real AI startup. Not a certificate — actual work.

Resume gold

$3.2M+ valuation

Live scraped from Devpost. Includes $205k in Momen credits for every hacker, 20M+ Firecrawl credits, Render, Wolfram, and more.

Live: $3,158,418

The prize pool

Everything on the table

All 44 prizes from the Devpost listing, in order — value and winner count exactly as published.

2 winners

Internships @ Learner Labs (ML and Ideathon track only)

6 internship slots at a promising AI startup offering invaluable real-world experience. Details are still being finalized, but winning certain tracks of the hackathon will unlock access to this internship opportunity. Strong LoRs may also be given if good work is done at the company. Internships are placed for the winners of the ML and Ideathon tracks — if the winners of these tracks do not accept their offers within a week, they will be passed on to another track winner.

$140 cash4 winners

1st Place — any track besides ML Prompt Engineering and Ideathon (cash prize)

First place cash prize for the Software, Datathon, Embedded, and App Development tracks.

$100 cash2 winners

1st Place — ML Prompt Engineering and Ideathon track (cash prize)

First place cash prize for the ML Prompt Engineering and Ideathon tracks.

$65 cash2 winners

2nd Place — ML Prompt Engineering and Ideathon track (cash prize)

Second place cash prize for the ML Prompt Engineering and Ideathon tracks.

$90 cash4 winners

2nd Place — any other track (cash prize)

Second place cash prize for the Software, Datathon, Embedded, and App Development tracks.

$300 value1 winner

Featherless.AI $300 credit

Winner of the AI/ML track receives a $300 credit for Featherless.AI, which they can use to get API keys for major LLMs for their own personal use (Llama, Gemini, Claude, GPT, etc.).

$50 value6 winners

1st Place any track — 3 free domains for 1 year

3 domains for 1st place of any track of the hackathon (~$50 value).

$30 value6 winners

2nd Place any track — 2 free domains for 1 year

2 domains for 2nd place of any track of the hackathon (~$30 value).

$15 value6 winners

3rd Place any track — 1 free domain for 1 year

1 domain for 3rd place of any track of the hackathon (~$15 value).

$180 value3 winners

Protoflow 1 Year Pro Subscription

For 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place of the hackathon.

$25 value2,050 winners

Featherless.AI 1 Month Subscription

If you choose to participate, you get access to one month of Featherless.AI worth $25, which grants access to large LLM API keys and models including Llama, GPT, Gemini, and more.

$50 value2,050 winners

Firecrawl — complementary 10k API credits per user

Complementary access to 10k API credits from Firecrawl.

$160 value2,050 winners

Wolfram|One 1 month subscription

Access to Wolfram|One to build your project for the duration of one month!

$8 value2,050 winners

1 Month DevSwarm Pro

1 complementary month of DevSwarm Pro.

$50 value2,050 winners

Render Building Credits Access — 1 Month

One month of Render's subscription.

$45 value2,050 winners

3 months of Mobbin for all participants

Complementary access to 3 months of Mobbin for all participants!

$100 value2,050 winners

$100 in Momen Credits for every participant

Complementary $100 in Momen credits for every participant.

$90 value2,050 winners

Somba Regular membership for 3 months

Complementary prize for all hackathon participants, simply for participating: 3 months of Somba's Regular membership.

$117 value2,050 winners

3 Months of complementary Learner Labs

3 months of complementary Learner Labs as part of our sponsorship deal with Learner Labs!

$333 value2,050 winners

10% Discount on Algoverse AI Research Program

Complimentary prize. Not redeemable for cash.

$30 value2,050 winners

500 Protoflow Credits

For all hackathon participants.

$60 value2,050 winners

Dialogate Pro Subscription (lifetime)

Complementary participant Dialogate Pro subscription — lasts a lifetime, valued at $60 per subscription.

$300 value2,050 winners

$300 in Adaption Platform Credits

Adaption Platform credits with basic access to Adaptive Data and AutoScientist, redeemed by filling out the form in the email received 24 hours after signing up. This prize is not redeemable for cash.

$50 value2,050 winners

Cursis AI 1 Month $50 Plan

Claim $50 worth of Cursis AI credits by simply participating!

$998 value18 winners

30% Discount on Algoverse AI Research Program (winner of any track)

Not redeemable for cash.

$500 value5 winners

Neon $500 Credit

Meant so groups can continue their project even after the hackathon, allowing them to learn more. Must be used within the group; cannot be split.

$720 value1 winner

1st Place — 2-year VIP membership CodeCrafters (Software Development track only)

Unlocks all challenges — Git, Redis, SQLite, and more. If you have multiple winners per placement, each team member gets the prize.

$360 value1 winner

2nd Place — 1-year VIP membership CodeCrafters (Software Development track only)

Unlocks all challenges — Git, Redis, SQLite, and more. If you have multiple winners per placement, each team member gets the prize.

$180 value1 winner

3rd Place — 6-month VIP membership CodeCrafters (Software Development track only)

Unlocks all challenges — Git, Redis, SQLite, and more. If you have multiple winners per placement, each team member gets the prize.

1 winner

Mentoring Session with Formaloo CEO (Datathon track only)

1st place of the Datathon track will be invited to meet with the CEO of Formaloo to learn from their experiences and ask for advice for the future.

$299 value100 winners

Tin Computer Growth Credits

Up to 100 eligible teams can each receive $299 in Tin Computer Growth Plan credits after submitting their projects — $299 in Growth Plan credits per eligible team. This is not a cash prize: it consists of sponsor-provided product credits, subscriptions, software licenses, domains, or other non-cash benefits and cannot be exchanged or redeemed for cash.

$180 value6 winners

1 Year of Mobbin Pro for the winners of each track

1 year of Mobbin Pro for the winner of each track!

$96 value18 winners

1 Year DevSwarm Pro (1st place teams, all 6 tracks)

Winners of all 6 tracks will receive 1 year of DevSwarm Pro.

$800 value18 winners

$800 in Adaption Platform Credits

Adaption Platform credits with premium access to Adaptive Data and AutoScientist, for the winning team in any track. This prize is not redeemable for cash.

$500 value1 winner

$500 in Render Build Credits (Software Development only — need to use Render in the project!)

1st place Software Development reward. Render must be used in the project.

$300 value1 winner

$300 in Render Build Credits (Software Development only — need to use Render in the project!)

2nd place Software Development reward. Render must be used in the project.

$100 value1 winner

$100 in Render Build Credits (Software Development only — need to use Render in the project!)

2nd place Software Development reward. Render must be used in the project.

$2,000 value3 winners

$2,000 in Credits from Momen (winning team of the Software Development track only)

$2,000 in credits from Momen for the 1st place winning team of the Software Development track only.

$1,500 value18 winners

20% Discount on RISE Research Program (winner of any track)

Not redeemable for cash.

$500 value2 winners

$500 Formaloo Forms Credits — 1st and 2nd place winners (Datathon track only)

1st and 2nd place of the Datathon track will win $500 worth of credits from Formaloo.

$800 value18 winners

Winner of every track — 12 months Somba Premium

12 months of Somba Premium for all hackathon winners.

$29 value18 winners

CleanShot Licenses (1st, 2nd, and 3rd of any track)

Win a CleanShot license for placing 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any of our 6 tracks at ReverieHacks.

$28 value700 winners

500 API Credits from PerfCorp — first 700 participants to redeem

Claim 500 free API credits each for the first 700 participants to sign up for the hackathon. First come, first served!

9,999 winners

Certificate

Certificate of participation. More prizes to come soon!

Everyone who takes part

You ship, you get stuff — even if you don’t podium

We partnered so every builder from 100 countries gets over $1,400 in credits and tools. Here’s what lands in your inbox just for participating.

$3.2M+ total

Featherless.AI All participants: 1 month subscription
Firecrawl All participants: 10k API credits
Wolfram|One All participants: 1 month
DevSwarm Pro All participants: 1 month
Render All participants: 1 month of credits
Mobbin All participants: 3 months
Momen All participants: $100 in credits
Somba All participants: 3 months Regular
Learner Labs All participants: 3 months
Algoverse AI Research All participants: 10% discount
Protoflow All participants: 500 credits
Dialogate Pro All participants: Lifetime subscription
Adaption Platform All participants: $300 in credits
Cursis AI All participants: $50 plan
Tin Computer First 100 eligible teams: $299 in credits
PerfCorp First 700 to redeem: 500 API credits
Certificate Everyone: Participation

More than a hackathon

Community first — learn, connect, compete, innovate with builders from 100 countries.

Community First

A playground, not a pressure cooker. 100 countries, one Discord, daily workshops, and mentors who actually reply.

Ship Real

Mentors from industry, not just judges. Build what matters — then get Render, Momen, and Protoflow credits to keep it live after.

Win & Learn

Cash, internships, and skills that outlast the event. 2,125 builders already in.