Important Dates:
- Start: September 16, 2025
- Submission Deadline: October 1, 2025 (12 PM PT)
- Winners Announced: October 7, 2025
Theme:
Build a new app (must start after Sept 16) using any/all modern stack sponsors: Convex, Firecrawl, Vapi, Better-Auth, Autumn, Resend, OpenAI.
Prizes:
- Overall Winner: $10,000 cash + major partner perks
- Second Place: $3,000 cash + perks
- Third Place: $2,000 cash + perks
- Best Use of OpenAI: $5,000 in OpenAI credits
- $20,000 total (cash, credits, products)
How to Participate:
- Build a new app—project must be started after Sept 16, using at least one sponsor.
- Share progress—post and tag sponsors on Twitter (X) or LinkedIn.
- Submit—upload with video demo to vibeapps.dev, use the
modernstacktag, before the deadline. No localhost demos allowed.
Registration:
Required via Luma: luma.com/modernstackhackathonv1
Resources:
Docs and getting started links for each sponsor (Convex, Firecrawl, Vapi, Better-Auth, Autumn, Resend, OpenAI), Convex Discord.
Judging:
Panel of engineers, founders, and dev advocates from Convex and sponsor orgs.
Rules:
- New builds only (post-Sept 16)
- Must use at least one sponsor product or platform
- Demo must be publicly accessible (no localhost)
- Submit before deadline
- Multiple entries allowed
- Source code doesn't need to be public
Official Page:
convex.dev/hackathons/modernstack
Submission:
Use vibeapps.dev and tag your project with modernstack.
Public web demo required (no localhost).
Support:
Convex and sponsor docs, Discord channels
- Thank you to this guy for the helping understand p2p with webrtc so easily