Showerhacks — winner gets to take a shower

Showerhacks — winner gets to take a shower # Showerhacks A 12-hour hackathon where the winner gets to take a shower Apply Join Discord October 3rd 2026 10AM – 10PM San Francisco 500-1000 People #### Co-hosted with ## The Team Org ### John Lins CompE @ UCSB johnlins.com Org ### Sarah Zhao CSE @ UCLA sarahzhao.dev Judge ### Allen Tran @allenvert Judge ### Yuni Kim CS & Bio @ UCSD @yunskistudy Org ### Celina Kim Marketing Profile Judge ### Mike Klikushin @MikeBuildsMore Org ### Ken Mueller CS @ Stanford Sup.ai Judge ### Tina Chi CS @ UF @tinahelloworld Judge ### Viraj Ala @viraj.ala Judge ### Christy Lam @christyoverflow Judge ### Charissa Kim @charlikestoeat Judge ### Aidan Ouckama @ouckahcs Judge ### Harneet Dhillon UCSB B.S/Georgia Tech M.S. @dhillon.diary Judge ### Martin Lee Cinema @ USC @mwtle Judge ### Ace Yip @hehuabuilds Org ### Chris Vaisnor AI M.S. @ John Hopkins University Judge ### Sara Leung @saraxxlg Judge ### Aolin Xu TikTok SWE @aolin_xu Judge ### Raami Abichou @Raamics Pre-Judge ### Arine Kim @arinekim @arinebuilds Org -- ### Kai XAI / CMU ↪ Pre-Org Shlok Madhekar ↪ -- ## Sponsors We are looking for generous sponsors to closely collaboration with, apply here. -- ### Generously funded by Turn websites into LLM-ready data Moss: Real-Time Semantic Search Personal Sponsor: Shubham ## About Some engineers know how to build, others just think they do, but one thing they all have in common is that they need to take a shower. In the spirit of unserious ideas, Showerhacks has only one judging criteria: Provocativity. You can build anything... anything, like an AI agent for eviction notices. A nonchalant AI chatbot that doesn’t really care if it helps you that much. An AI that automatically determines health insurance premiums based on attractiveness as a health indicator. An AI jury that makes decisions on criminal cases. An AI situationship that sends the user CashApp requests. A dating app that matches based on genetic compatibility. A consumer platform to trade prescriptions. Endless opportunities... Prizes 1st Place: Gets to take a shower 🫧 Most Useless App: TBD AI-powered Vertical Agentic B2B SAAS GPT-Wrapper: TBD Most Overengineered: TBD -- ## Afterparty 🎉 11PM-2AM: Invited participants and all winning teams will be invited to the afterparty (must be 18+ to enter and 21+ to consume alcohol 🥂). There will be multiple afterparties, each at different hackerhouses. Representatives from each hackerhouse will invite selected teams. Follow us on instagram@showerhacks and on Linkedin. tos privacy code of conduct