$10K
Prize Pool
Oct 30 – Oct 31
Duration
Melbourne, VIC
Location
TBA
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About this hackathon
STRANGER BUILDS 🎃 The nerdiest Halloween hack ever. This is the Melbourne edition of Stranger Builds. ...what will you bring to life? Find your first users in 7 days. Meet other builders, build something strange, and get real people using it. U$10.000 IN CASH PRIZES AND CREDITS, CHALLENGES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON! 🔥 HOW IT WORKS ⚡ Saturday, October 31: one day in person in San Francisco or Melbourne, or online from anywhere. ⚡ Then seven days online to ship. BACKED BY 🟠 Base44, Main Sponsor. Describe an app in plain words and get a working one, with backend, auth and hosting built in. base44.com 🟢 Fetch.ai, Main Sponsor. Build AI agents that find each other and get things done. fetch.ai 🔵 Vonage. APIs for messaging, voice and video inside your app. vonage.com 🦀 Shelled AI, Community Partner. Design, build, test and ship software with any AI model. shelled.ai 🦘 MLAI AUS, Community Partner (Melbourne). Our partner in Melbourne. mlai.au NERD COMMUNITY PARTNERS 🤓 The communities bringing their builders to Stranger Builds: 🤓 Build Club: AI builders, hackathons and co-working, born in Sydney. 🤓 MLAI AUS: growing Australia's AI and ML scene. Our Melbourne community partner. 🤓 Humans of Australia: the stories behind Australia's founders and startups. Run a builder community? Bring it to Stranger Builds. 👀 Judge announcements are coming. Want to judge or sponsor in San Francisco? Get in touch: hey@nerdconf.com Want to judge or sponsor in Melbourne? Get in touch: hi@mlai.au Join the other editions: San Francisco 👉 https://luma.com/xwoo0s7r Online 👉 https://luma.com/wn16tj6m NERDCONF runs hackathons in San Francisco and around the world, with a global network of 25K+ builders. The last one was Burning Token, September 2026, San Francisco and online. MLAI is Australia's Startup & AI community with 25,000 members. Have a startup idea and want support to bring it to life? Find us at mlai.au