Hackathons
Monthly virtual hackathons and in-person events. Form teams of three, build with Cursor, and submit your project.
Featured in-person hackathon
Cursor Boston Hack-a-Sprint
Inaugural in-person sprint — 50 builders, solo competition, co-hosted with inkbox.ai & Genesis Fund
First-ever Cursor Boston Hack-a-Sprint: 50 developers, fast solo competition, fully fed and watered. $50 in Cursor Credits for every selected participant, $1,200 prize pool (six $200 spots). Monday April 13 in Back Bay — register on Luma; approval required.
When: Monday, April 13, 2026 • 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET
Where: Back Bay (exact address after approval)
Registration is approval-required on Luma. You may be asked to verify token ownership with your wallet during checkout.
Perks & prizes
- $50 Cursor credits (guaranteed for every participant)
- $1,200 prize pool (six $200 winning spots)
- Food and drinks
Schedule
- 4:00 PM — Meet, greet, and get set up. Arrive, connect with fellow developers, and get ready to build
- 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM — Hack-a-Sprint. The main build period—code, compete, and ship
- 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM — Scoring and Judging. Results calculated by participants, judges, and AI
How spots are prioritized
- Open source: merged PRs to cursor-boston on GitHub
- Completed profile on cursorboston.com
- Member of the Cursor Boston Discord
- Website signup ranks you by PR count (ties broken by earlier signup)
- Luma registration (approval required)
Register on Luma
Virtual Hackathon – April 2026
Runs from the 1st through the last day of the month. You must be on a team of exactly 3 to participate. One team member registers the project GitHub repo to start; at the end of the month you submit and lock. Commits after the 1st of the next month (Boston time) disqualify.
Current period ends April 30, 2026.
In-person hackathons
We run in-person hackathons at select events. Same team rules apply: teams of 3, form in advance or at the event.
Cursor Boston Hack-a-Sprint
Inaugural in-person sprint — 50 builders, solo competition, co-hosted with inkbox.ai & Genesis Fund
First-ever Cursor Boston Hack-a-Sprint: 50 developers, fast solo competition, fully fed and watered. $50 in Cursor Credits for every selected participant, $1,200 prize pool (six $200 spots). Monday April 13 in Back Bay — register on Luma; approval required.
2026-04-13 • 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET
Back Bay (exact address after approval)
Featured
Sponsor or host
Interested in supporting our community? Get in touch to sponsor prizes for the monthly virtual hackathon or to sponsor and host an in-person hackathon.
Email hello@cursorboston.com to sponsor prizes for the monthly hackathon or to discuss sponsoring and hosting an in-person hackathon.
Rules at a glance
- Teams must have exactly 3 members.
- To join the pool you need a public profile with GitHub and Discord connected (and Discord visible).
- You can only be on one team per hackathon.
- You can leave a team; if the team had already registered a repo, the team is disqualified and you cannot join another team until next month.
- Virtual: repo must be public and created during the hackathon month.
- Virtual: submit by end of month; no commits after the 1st of the next month (Boston time).