Sep 1 to Sep 10, 2026  ·  10 days

“We Kill” Hackathon

SaaS was built for humans, not agents. Agents still can't use most tools without expensive subscriptions. Join us to kill the old SaaS model and build the next generation of products for agents.

Total prize pool

$4,015

Claude and Monid credits, split evenly across the top three.

Full timeline →

Winners announced

Sep 15, 2026

Judges 400, reach 250, viral 200. Highest total out of 850 takes it.

Why they have to go

Why SaaS breaks for agents.

No API

Built for clicks, not calls. Your agent has to use a browser, or give up.

API behind sales

The API exists, but only behind an enterprise plan or a sales call.

Pay per seat

Agents don't need seats. They need a few calls, not another dashboard.

Auth built for humans

SSO, MFA, manual exports: workflows made for people, not agents.

That's what we're here to kill.

How it works

Three steps, ten days.

Tue Sep 1

Registration and hackathon open

Thu Sep 10

Submissions close, 23:59 ET

Tue Sep 15

Winners announced

Every competitor is in the Discord

Ask about a target, get unstuck, and hear about anything that changes mid-run.

Join the Discord →

What is Monid

Connect your agent to every tool it needs.

They charge per seat, per month. Monid charges per call. One key, no plan, no minimum, no sales call. Chain four of these and you have an output no single vendor sells.

Visit monid.ai → Read the docs Live · 1,900+ tools

Give this to your agent

$ set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md

and let it take it from there.

Monid
Apollosales intel
Seedance 2.0video gen
ElevenLabsAI voice
MiniMaximage + music
Octenreal-time web search
Redditscraping
X / Twitterscraping
LinkedInscraping
TikTokscraping
Instagramscraping
Facebookscraping
YouTubescraping
Telegramscraping
Amazonscraping
Google Reviewsscraping
Apifyweb scraping
Browserbaseweb automation
People Data Labspeople search
OpenWeatherweather
Wokeloprivate markets
Blockrunprediction + on-chain
Suzanne3D modeling
Exaweb search
Saperlyagent phone
WeChatscraping
RedNotescraping
Gloriareal-time news
See all 1,900+ tools→ browse the catalog

Prizes and scoring

How you win.

Prizes

$4,015 total

1st place

$2,000

$1,000 Claude credits, $1,000 Monid credits

A case study and a feature video from the Monid account

2nd place

$1,200

$600 Claude credits, $600 Monid credits

A feature in the winners thread

3rd place

$800

$400 Claude credits, $400 Monid credits

A feature in the winners thread

Worst idea that worked

$15

$15 in Monid credits

The same case study as 1st place

Worst Idea That Worked is a judges' pick. It ignores the score completely, so an entry that places nowhere can still take it. It does still have to run on real data.

Scoring

Three numbers, added together.

Judges

400

Four criteria, 100 each

+

Reach

250

Five platforms, 50 each

+

Viral

200

Total views, log scaled

=

Final score

850

Highest three take 1st, 2nd, 3rd

400 points

Judges

Every judge scores each criterion out of 100. Their four totals are averaged, so 400 is the scale, not a placement bonus.

100
Is the kill real?Does it do the incumbent's job on live data, or only the easy 20% with the hard part described in a README?
100
Does it go past the tutorial?Endpoint combinations that reach something you could not get another way, not a getting started example.
100
Is the video any good?It is the first thing a judge watches. This is where most entries lose.
100
Would anyone actually use it?The strongest version is a tool another agent builder would reach for tomorrow.

250 points

Reach

Platform coverage, not post count. Post as many videos as you want: the first one on each platform is +50, the rest add views.

PlatformPoints
X+50
LinkedIn+50
Instagram+50
TikTok+50
YouTube+50
All five+250

Flat, regardless of performance. A post at 2,000 views earns the same +50 as one at 200,000, so a builder with 40 followers can max all 250 of these outright. At least one registered post is required for a valid submission.

200 points

Viral

The one place views count. Your total across every registered post, on a log curve against whoever leads.

# locked before we open
Viral = 200 × log10(1+V)
              ⁄ log10(1+Vmax)

V     your total views, every post
Vmax  the leader's V

If the leader ends on 500,000 views

Your viewsvs leaderViral
500,000200
50,0001/10165
5,0001/100130
5001/100095
501/1000060

A thousand times the views is worth 105 points, which is 12% of the 850 total. Big accounts have an edge and it is not a steamroller. Bot views on X run about seven cents per thousand, so buying your way up a log curve costs more than it returns, by design.

Judges

The Monid team

SY
Shengkun YeMonid
FG
Feiyou GuoMonid

Common questions.

How do I pick a target?

Do not start from your card statement. Start from the last time your agent could not do something: no API, an API behind a sales call, or pricing that assumes a human with a seat. That wall is your target.

Somebody sells the human version of that job, and their price is on a public pricing page. That published price is the only hard requirement, because the comparison is the entire point. There is no approved list, no category restriction, and no advantage to picking something famous.

What actually counts as a kill?

Your build has to do the job a paying customer buys that product for, end to end, for at least one real use case. Running on live data, in front of a judge, handling bad inputs and empty results. A UI with mock data behind it is not an entry.

You do not have to match every feature. Name the workflow you replaced and name the ones you did not, because honest scoping scores higher than overclaiming every time.

Can I enter as a team? Does it have to be new?

Teams up to three. Register one entry with one bound social handle, name the whole team in the submission, and split the prize yourselves.

The Monid integration and the kill have to be new work built during the ten days, and your commit history has to show it. Building on top of something you already had is fine as long as the judged part was written inside the window.

Is naming real products a problem?

Comparing your work to a named competitor on price and capability is normal and legal, and it is most of what makes these demos land. Four rules keep it that way: use current public prices, compare a plan someone can actually buy, show your real cost including failed runs, and criticise products rather than people.

Anything that reads as harassment of a company or an employee is removed from the competition.

Who owns what I build?

You own it entirely. By entering you give Monid permission to show your submission, video and name in coverage of the hackathon. No license to your code, no assignment, no right of first refusal.

Register to compete

Sep 1 to Sep 10. We send your Monid key the morning it opens.

Register to compete → Join the Discord