Scale-up AI Hackathon

Join HubSpot for Startups & Weavy to build AI-powered modules that can scale with ambition
  • Apr 21, 2025May 21, 2025
  • 48 hours to finish after joining the hackathon
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Power Modules, Massive Impact

Weavy has teamed up with HubSpot for Startups to throw this ultimate AI hackathon. This is your chance to craft intelligent and interactive power modules that drive impact where it matters most.

Welcome to SCALE-UP AI, a virtual hackathon for founders, developers, designers, and AI enthusiasts looking to build the next generation of web apps.

Think you’ve got what it takes to push the boundaries of AI? Let's see it!

Let's get going!

Explore the challenge, resources, and prizes, create a team, and join the discussion.

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Get a quick overview of where everything is so you can easily find it later.

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To join the hackathon, you'll need;

  • A Weavy account
     

  • You are required to have applied to the HubSpot for Startups program to participate. You can create a new HubSpot portal for this competition or connect an existing HubSpot account here. 

    If you work at a startup that is eligible for the program, you will be offered 30-75% off HubSpot's CRM Platform. Please apply using the company website domain and not a personal email address.

  • Create a HubSpot Developer Account - this will allow you to build serverless functions, etc. using HubSpot.

  • An on this platform (it's free) and set up or join a team

How does it work?

As soon as you create a team for this hackathon, your 48 hours start ticking, and you need to submit before the deadline—no second chances. 😉

Challenge

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Create AI-powered modules that solve real problems for ambitious startups and SMBs without requiring enterprise resources.

That could mean AI-powered chatbots that small teams can deploy to a large user base, content that adapts on the fly, and user experiences that feel more like magic than code. Whether you're building an external-facing portal, an internal HubSpot-powered app, or something that doesn’t even exist yet—this is your playground.

Jury evaluation

When our jury evaluates your submissions, they'll look for solutions combining creativity, usability, and use of the complete tech stack.

Inspiration for your builds

Collaboration
Collaborative AI

Human-AI interaction, have multiple AI agents and users discuss in a chat room with an AI companion automatically to create actions based on conversations.

Support
Elevated Support

Use customer data from HubSpot CRM together with a tuned AI combined with Weavy Copilot for better support in a customer portal built with HubSpot CMS

Community
Bring people together

Build a community site using HubSpot CMS with Weavy's power components for collaboration and discussions, and sprinkle with conversational AI.

Prizes

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For the winning team;

🏆 $200 Cash prize for the winning team

💰 HubSpot & Weavy – 90% off for 3 years, plus 25% off forever on our subscriptions after 3 years.

🎁 Over $100,000 in software perks– Unlock powerful tools from HubSpot’s partner network to fuel your next big project.

For 2nd and 3rd place;

💰 HubSpot & Weavy – 90% off for 3 years, plus 25% off forever on our subscriptions after 3 years.

🎁 Over $100,000 in software perks– Unlock powerful tools from HubSpot’s partner network to fuel your next big project.

Jury

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We're the team that will look, try, and play with your awesome creations.

ragini
HubSpot
Ragini Campion

Ragini leads HubSpot for Startups GTM in the Nordics and manages key VC, accelerator, and community partnerships. She brings experience across Marketing, Education, and Tech, with past roles in social impact and enterprise partnerships. She's passionate about startups and Marketing & Sales trends.

HubSpot
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Co-Founder @ Weavy
Rickard Hansson

Rickard Hansson is the co-founder of Weavy. It's being described as a "revolution in feature development." Of course, Rickard is the one who describes it that way, but that doesn't make it any less true. He develops video games in his limited spare time.

Weavy
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Partner @ Resultify
Robert Bråkenhielm

Helping B2B & B2C grow faster with next-gen HubSpot websites and CRM implementations • Partner & Senior HubSpot Specialist @ Resultify - Sweden’s top HubSpot Diamond partner🚀
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HubSpot
Matt Roe

Matt is a Senior Product Manager in the Growth team at HubSpot. His role involves finding new, and optimizing existing, channels to drive product-led demand. He has worked in Growth roles for over 7 years, with a background scaling start ups before joining HubSpot in 2022.

HubSpot
paul
HubSpot
Paul Leninger

At HubSpot, I lead a fantastic team of engineers with an approach that’s based on empathy and growth. I love the freedom and influence that comes with our small teams, and I’m passionate about driving product development and managing the entire software lifecycle to create features that our customers rave about.

HubSpot

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Rules

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Eligibility and Registration

  • Participants: This event is open to individuals and teams (up to 4 members) over 18, including developers, product managers, UI/UX designers, and tech enthusiasts.
     
  • Registration: Sign up and create a team for the hackathon. Registration is open until the last day of the hackathon.

Hackathon Format and Rules

  • Development Window: Upon registration, you have a 48-hours to ideate, develop, and submit your project, leveraging the synergies between Weavy and HubSpot.
     
  • Tech Stack: Your project should integrate Weavy and HubSpot, showcasing how these platforms can enhance experiences.

Submission Guidelines

  • Dual Submission:
    • Share: Submit a URL to your built app so the jury can test it live.
    • YouTube: Complement your submission with a video presentation (3-5 minutes) on YouTube, demonstrating your project's functionality.

  • Submission: Use the form in your team panel to submit your app URL and YouTube video URLs.

Judging Criteria and Awards

  • Evaluation: Projects will be judged based on innovation, technical execution, user impact, and clarity of presentation. Special emphasis will be on the effective use of Weavy and HubSpot.

  • Prizes: Winners will be celebrated in a virtual awards ceremony.

Intellectual Property (IP) and Conduct

  • IP Ownership: Participants retain ownership of their IP, including software, ideas, and content created for the hackathon.
     
  • License to Use: By participating, you grant Weavy and HubSpot a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display and promote your submission in relation to the hackathon and future events.
     
  • IP Respect: Ensure your submission does not infringe on third-party rights and includes the necessary permissions for any used resources.
     
  • Conduct: Maintain professionalism and respect throughout the event. Harassment or abusive behavior will result in disqualification.

Protecting Your Work

  • Open Source: If incorporating or contributing to open-source software, adhere to the respective licenses and consider including a license file in your project.
     
  • Protection Measures: Consider taking steps to protect your IP, such as documenting your development process or exploring patents where applicable.

Conclusion

The HubSpot + Weavy hackathon is not just a competition; it's an event for innovation, collaboration, and growth.

We are excited to see how you leverage Weavy and HubSpot to bring next-generation sites to life.

Happy hacking!

FAQ

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No. You do not have to pay anything to anyone to register yourself for any hackaton on our platform.

No. Whatever the winning team gets needs to split amongst you - and it's up to you how to practically do that.

The prize will be paid out to the team captain unless anything else is said.

Yup. You can be a team of one! 😉

Every hackathon has a time window during which you can participate—the second you sign up, the clock starts, and it can range from 8 to 120 hours before you need to submit your project to compete.

If you love to code, you are more than welcome to participate.

In the Team panel to the right, you have a tab that says Submit, whenever you are ready, and before the deadline - submit your project there according to the rules.

The submission should be functional so that it can be reviewed by the judges.

No. Simple as that.

Yes. As a part of the submission, we want you to post a short, simple video on YouTube that showcases what you've built. 

 Yes.

  • IP Ownership: Participants retain ownership of their IP, including software, ideas, and content created for the hackathon.
  • License to Use: By participating, you grant Weavy a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display and promote your submission in relation to the hackathon and future events.
  • IP Respect: Ensure your submission does not infringe on third-party rights and includes the necessary permissions for any used resources.

Timeline

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For the Scale-up AI Hackathon hackathon the following timline applies;

  • Starts Apr 21, 2025
  • Ends May 21, 2025
  • 48 hours to finish and submit for your team after joining the hackathon

Events

All events are in PST. Events will be recorded and published here. Ad-hoc events are added during the hackathon; feel free to request additional ones in the discussion forum.
April 21

11:00 AM PST

Welcome to Scale-up AI Hackathon

An open stage where we present some demos, where you can ask questions about the hackathon, etc.

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May 1

11:00 AM PST

Code it live

We'll host a session where we'll create Weavy modules and build a site from scratch with HubSpot + Weavy. The session will be open for Q&A live, so it's a perfect opportunity to ask.

Register

Discussion

Join the conversation. Maintain professionalism and respect. Harassment or abusive behavior will result in suspension.

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