Google & GitCloud AI Mini-Hackathon

Overview

📆 Friday, May 1st, 2026
⏰ 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 Google, King East Toronto HQ

This is not a traditional hackathon, your project should have no market-fit and no practicality. We want chaotic, weird, funny, and oddly brilliant ideas that make people say, “wait… why does this actually make sense?”

Note: This is a solo hackathon, no teams, just individual builders.

Timeline

• Hacking Starts (Online): Monday, April 27th at 5:00 PM
• Submission Deadline (Devpost): Thursday, April 30th at 10:00 PM

• Friday, May 1st (In-person @ Google Toronto Office): AI Workshop + Demo Day
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM: Attendee check-in (no entry after 1:20 PM)
  • 1:20 PM – 2:00 PM: Google AI workshop, led by Google Engineers
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Final hacking + project refinement
  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Demos + awards
  • 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Networking & wrap-up

Rules

• Projects must be original and created for this hackathon (no fully pre-built old projects).
• You can use open-source tools, APIs, and libraries, but your main idea and implementation should be your own.

Some Project Ideas (Don't Use These)

• Cursor Companion: your mouse has emotions, gets tired, and reacts to what you click
• Fridge That Judges You: camera + AI that roasts your food choices in real time with dramatic commentary
• Social Credit for Your Friends: ranks your friends based on how fast they reply, cancel plans, etc.

• Project should have no market-fit and no practicality
  Build something intentionally unnecessary, an idea that solves no real problem, breaks common market-fit logic, and exists purely because it’s funny or absurd.
• Project should be weird, visionary, chaotic, but oddly brilliant
  Your project should feel ridiculous at first, but make people pause and think, “wait… why is this actually kind of genius?"
• Use at least one Google AI tool (e.g., Gemini, Stitch, Firebase, etc.)
  Your project must use at least one Google AI tool, whether that’s using Gemini integrations for chat, voice, or content generation, Stitch for UI design and frontend code, or Firebase for auth, database and hosting.
• Submit a 1-minute demo video and project link through Devpost before April 30th, 2026 10:00PM
  Submit a 1-minute demo video and a link to your project through Devpost before the deadline. Link can be the GitHub repo, deployed app, v0 chat, Lovable project, or any link that clearly shows what you built and how it works.