Join the Actian VectorAI DB Build Challenge We're running our first virtual hackathon, and we have prizes. Date: April 13-18 (Monday to Saturday) Prizes: 1st place team: 3 months Claude Max 5x (per person) 2nd place team: 1 month Claude Max 5x (per person) 3rd place team: 1 month Claude Pro (per person) Each team has max. 4 members but if you feel like, you can solo too This is your chance to build something real with the latest beta release of the vector database, now with ARM support! Join us on Discord Join our Discord for real-time support, team formation, progress sharing, and to get the most out of the hackathon: https://discord.gg/432A2M63Py About the Organizer Actian is an enterprise data management company with decades of experience building high-performance databases. Actian VectorAI DB is Actian's newest product — a portable, multimodal vector database built for AI applications that need to run beyond the cloud. It delivers low-latency semantic search across embedded, edge, on-prem, and hybrid environments, giving developers full data ownership without depending on cloud-native infrastructure. This hackathon is run by the Actian developer community team. We're building the community from the ground up and this is our first developer event — we're excited to see what you build. Timeline - Submissions open: April 13, 2026 — 23:00 UTC - Submissions close: April 18, 2026 — 18:00 UTC - Judging period: April 18–19, 2026 - Winners announced: April 20, 2026 Judging Criteria - Use of Actian VectorAI DB (30%): Is VectorAI DB central to the app? Does the team understand what they built and why they chose each feature? - Real-world impact (25%): Does it solve an actual problem? Would someone use this? - Technical execution (25%): Does it work? Is the architecture sound and the code coherent? - Demo & presentation (20%): Can the team explain it clearly? Does the demo convince us? Bonus points (judges' discretion, no fixed weight): deployed locally without cloud dependency, runs on ARM or an edge device, works offline.
