about this event
$27.5k+ in winner prizes. Thousands more in participant credits and perks. 8 hours to speedrun your startup.
On Day 271 of the singularity, Brainbase, Anthropic, Cloudflare, and Stripe are bringing together builders in San Francisco for the Startup Speedrun Hackathon.
The premise is simple: Take a startup idea and get as far as humanly or otherwise possible in 8 hours. Build the product. Deploy the infrastructure. Set up payments. Give your agents tools. Find customers. Winners will get free incorporation and thousands in compute to kickstart their startup.
This hackathon is in-person at Cloudflare HQ (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107), and participants should plan to be onsite for the duration of the event.
Build across three tracks:
Agentic Payments: Build agents that can transact, buy, sell, provision services, manage budgets, or otherwise interact with financial infrastructure autonomously.
Agents That Deploy Infrastructure: Build agents that can take software from an idea to something running in production — provisioning infrastructure, deploying applications, managing domains, configuring services, and operating the stack.
Autonomous Organizations: Build teams of agents that coordinate through surfaces like Slack, Linear, and other tools to accomplish a high-level goal — assigning work, communicating, making decisions, and executing with minimal human intervention.
Teams are encouraged to combine the tracks. The ultimate speedrun might look less like a hackathon project and more like a company created in 24 hours: agents writing and deploying software, coordinating work, interacting with customers, managing infrastructure, and moving money. And we're giving you the resources to keep going after the hackathon.
1st place receives $2,000 cash from Brainbase, plus $3,000 in Brainbase credits, $2,500 in Cloudflare credits, up to $4,000 in Anthropic credits, and free Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $3,000 in Stripe credits. 2nd place receives $1,000 cash from Brainbase, plus $2,000 in Brainbase credits, $1,500 in Cloudflare credits, up to $2,000 in Anthropic credits, and free Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $2,000 in Stripe credits. 3rd place receives $500 cash from Brainbase, plus $1,000 in Brainbase credits, $1,000 in Cloudflare credits, up to $1,000 in Anthropic credits, and free Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $1,000 in Stripe credits.
All participants are also eligible for additional perks, including $50 in Anthropic credits for the first 75 claims, 20% off Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $500 in Stripe credits, and Stripe and Cloudflare swag.
Come with an idea. Leave 8 hours later with a startup. We'll see you in San Francisco.
tracks
Agentic Payments
Build agents that can transact, buy, sell, provision services, manage budgets, or otherwise interact with financial infrastructure autonomously.
Agents That Deploy Infrastructure
Build agents that can take software from an idea to something running in production — provisioning infrastructure, deploying applications, managing domains, configuring services, and operating the stack.
Autonomous Organizations
Build teams of agents that coordinate through surfaces like Slack, Linear, and other tools to accomplish a high-level goal — assigning work, communicating, making decisions, and executing with minimal human intervention.
when
Startup Speedrun Hackathon
8-hour in-person hackathon at Cloudflare HQ, building across three tracks with prizes and credits for winners.
◍ Cloudflare HQtickets
| tickets | price | Fee | Status | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Admission | Free | None | Available | Free entry to the Startup Speedrun Hackathon; participants should plan to be onsite for the duration of the event. |
prizes
| # | PRIZE | price |
|---|---|---|
| 1st place | $2,000 cash from Brainbase, plus $3,000 in Brainbase credits, $2,500 in Cloudflare credits, up to $4,000 in Anthropic credits, and free Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $3,000 in Stripe credits | $14,500+ |
| 2nd place | $1,000 cash from Brainbase, plus $2,000 in Brainbase credits, $1,500 in Cloudflare credits, up to $2,000 in Anthropic credits, and free Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $2,000 in Stripe credits | $8,500+ |
| 3rd place | $500 cash from Brainbase, plus $1,000 in Brainbase credits, $1,000 in Cloudflare credits, up to $1,000 in Anthropic credits, and free Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $1,000 in Stripe credits | $4,500+ |
| All participants | Additional perks including $50 in Anthropic credits for the first 75 claims, 20% off Stripe Atlas incorporation plus $500 in Stripe credits, and Stripe and Cloudflare swag | TBA |