Pop The Bubble Hackathon 🫧

Pop the Bubble Hackathon 5–7 June 2026 · 36 hours https://www.popthebubblehack.co.uk/ The room 80 builders. ~12% acceptance, manual review. Half are pre-company shipping side projects with real users. Half are ex-Stripe, ex-YC, indie hackers running their own MRR. We filter for your hunger. Judged by a16z scouts, OpenAI developers and more. Investors and operators in the room from day one The prizes £10,000 cash · first place. Other prizes TBD. Top 3 teams join us at the closing dinner Sunday night. The test Did anyone click, reply, pay, reject you, change a workflow or care enough to argue? Three tracks Outbuild · find a slow, bloated product. Ship the sharper version. Steal their users. Validate · build the evidence pack, dashboard, or report against a company that makes the truth harder to ignore. Effect · pick one real person or org. Remove a recurring burden with them, not for them. Get paid. How we judge Economic exchange — did someone pay?Rejections — proof you askedReal-world impact — something is different on Monday Apply If you're done gambling weekends on hackathons that go nowhere, this is the clean test.