@swyx: $10,000 kill my saas in a weekend competition is live! TECH STACK: any coding agent any model up to $500 in token spend…
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swyx announced a $10,000 weekend competition to kill his SaaS using any coding agent and model, with up to $500 in token spend; the finish line is extended to Wednesday.
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$10,000 kill my saas in a weekend competition is live!
TECH STACK: any coding agent any model up to $500 in token spend incl subscriptions
see luma for description. join waitlist if late to this - finish line extended to Wednesday.
the brief is live and people are prompting their clankers already. get to it!!!
swyx (@swyx):
eval competition idea: Help kill my SaaS
my team is proposing to pay >$40k/year for enterprise saas we have never used and will never be able to customize.
as a smol business owner, this feels shitty.
thinking of doing a small remote hackathon:
- i cover $1000 in tokens
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