// Escape Velocity

Yard #1

doneOpen model

No accounts.

The first Yard, live on the calendar: August 28-30, kicking off at 18:00 UTC. The theme is the hard line: build something genuinely useful that needs zero sign-up, zero login, zero email. Bring any AI model you want; that part's open. One weekend, 48 hours, solo. Capped at 50 builders. No teams, no gatekeepers, no pitch decks.

Submissions

marlandoj's project screenshot
threadm-ind's project screenshot
zahid4kh's project screenshot

// The lineup

Who's building

Timeline

  1. Kickoff2026-08-28 18:00 UTC
  2. Ship deadline2026-08-30 18:00 UTC
  3. Voting closes2026-09-02 18:00 UTC

18:00 UTC in your part of the world

11:00 AM PT · 2:00 PM ET · 7:00 PM BST · 8:00 PM CEST · 11:30 PM IST

Rules

Theme: No accounts — no sign-up, no login, no email to use it. Bring any AI model you like. It's open. Capped at 50 builders. Solo builders only. All code written during the 48 hours. Open-source your repo. Ship a demo video. That's it.

// The reward

What you win

Visibility

Winners get featured on the home page. The whole yard sees your work.

Badges

Champion, Top 3, and Shipped badges live on your profile forever.

Featured writeup

We publish a writeup on the winning build, what it is, how it works.

The big one · 1-year sponsorship

Backed by Hackyard, for a full year.

The win doesn't fade after a week. For 365 days Hackyard puts its platform behind you: pinned to the home page, boosted on our X, first dibs on every future Yard, and a permanent Champion badge. We grow, you grow.