Browser Agents: Mad Hack #3
Create something new @ the one-day hackathon! Come as you are, ship your agent demo, and compete for $11,000+ in prizes!
This is for developers.
An agent is an LLM with instructions and tools that perform actions to complete tasks autonomously on your behalf.
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Task
We help you form teams at Startuplab (3 person max)
Apply Browser Use or similar to perform a task on your behalf
Deliver a 1-min video demo & 3-min live demo in 10 hours
Prizes
Best browser agent demo shared with 1000+ developers
$3750 (est.) in waived fees on $50,000 in Stripe processing + $250 discount on Atlas for best use of Stripe Agent Toolkit (usage based billing and more)
$3600 total team credits for best use of Hyperbrowser (reliable browser workflows)
$1800 total team credits for best use of Vercel AI SDK (easy UI for LLMs)
$1000 total team credits for best use of OpenAI Agents SDK + $150 credits per attendee for the day (everything agents)
$1000 total team credits for bet use of Vogent.ai (voice functionality)
$300 total credits for each team new to Google Cloud (Gemini 2.5 and more)
Jury
Emil Anker Wiik, Head of Community @ AI Mad Lab
Ellen Lee, Startup Partner Northern Europe @ Stripe
Anna Munthe-Kaas, Associate Partner @ Antler
Shri Sukhani, Co-founder @ Hyperbrowser, YC S21
Jagath Vytheeswaran, Co-founder @ Vogent, YC W25
Erik Seeck, Industry Lead @ Google Cloud
Rula Awad, UK Ambassador @ Women in AI
Criteria
How real is the problem the project solves? 50%
How well are the demos implemented? 50%
Agenda
09:30: Doors open! Be early
10:00am: Meet Jon Kåre Stene, Co-founder @ Skyfall
10:30am: Introduction to task
10:45am: Find a team or coding partner
11:00am: Coding begins!
12:15pm: Free lunch
5:15pm: Free dinner
6:00pm: Record video demos
6:30pm: Hard submission deadline!
7:15pm: Live demos
7:45pm: Winners announced
8:00pm: Doors close
Practical
Open main door by calling Emil at 970 10 240
Everyone has equal opportunity to prepare
Bring your laptop and charger
Use Guest Wifi. No password required
Please leave rooms super clean
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Preparations
Set yourself up for success by
1. Getting familiar with the key event repos
2. Start thinking about what problem to solve
Developer Resources
AI Code Editors: Cursor (Free Trial)
Browser Framework: Browser Use (Open)
Manage Sessions: Hyperbrowser (Free Startup Plan)
Browser Automation: Stagehand (Open)
Agent Framework: ANUS (Open)
Computer Use: E2B (Open)
Computer Use Agent: OpenAI CUA (API)
Agent SDK: Open AI Agents SDK
Agent Development Kit: Google ADK
Agent OS: ElizaOS (Open)
Agent2Agent Protocol: A2A (Open)
AI Search Engine: Perplexica (Open)
Speech Generation: Sesame CSM (Open)
Video Avatar: Simli Agent (Free Trial)
Toolkits: Vercel AI SDK (Open)
Agent Billing: Stripe Agent Toolkit
Crypto Wallet: Coinbase AgentKit (Template)
MCP Server: Composio (Free)
Voice Providers: Cartesia or ElevenLabs
Reasoning Model: Deepseek R1 (Open)
Visual Queries: SmolVLM 256M (Open)
Text Parser: MegaParse (Open)
Web Browsing: MultiOn (Rebrand: Please)
Web Scraping: Crawl4AI (Open)
Voice Agent Eval: Coval (Free Trial)
Information Retrieval: RAGFlow (Open)
Web Session Replay: rrweb (Open)
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Judges
Review criteria and video demos
Jury members select their favorite team
Hosts select top teams to live demo
Successfully 1-min video demo
Use Loom's Desktop App to record video
Enable sound recording (enable "Preferences > Video & Audio > Use system audio")
Record a Video Demo (60s max)
Verify that the recording sounds loud and clear!
Get your Loom's shareable link
Submit link to the Google Form
Successfully 3-min live demo
Share team name, individual names, tool stack
Our solution helps [user X] solve [task Y] by [solution Z]
Demo how a user would solve the task using the solution
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