Mad Hack #4: Agentic Loops

What is it?

Our seasonal hackathon for 100 select developers. Come as you are, create something new, and impress some cool people.

How does it work?

We help you form teams of max 3 devs

Build something people want in 10 hours

Deliver a demo to your new friends in 2 minutes

What should I expect?

Get started with loops and the basics of Loop Engineering.

Ship a 0 to 1 application or feature

Compete to impress excellent developers

____________HOW TO WIN_______________

Who will jury?

Markus Skagemo, CTO @ Crunched (YC F25)

Stefan Mandaric, CTO @ Moritz (YC W26)

Sven Myhre, CTO @ Ara (YC P26)

Peter Flo, Chief Scientist @ Audun (YC S26)

Bob Deforce, Startups @ Anthropic

William Imoh, Team @ AI Mad Lab

What criteria do they use?

How real is the problem the project solves? 50%

How well are the demos implemented? 50%

How do I give a great demo?

Share your team name

Our solution helps [user X] solve [task Y] by [solution Z]

Demo how a user would solve the task using the solution

____________PROGRAM_______________

What does our day look like?

09:30: Doors open! Best advise: be early

10:00am: Introduction to task

10:30am: Create a team

11:00am: Coding begins!

12:00pm: Free lunch

5:00pm: Free dinner

7:00pm: Live demos

7:30pm: Winners announced

8:00pm: Doors close

Where do I go?

Startuplab is located in Oslo Science Park

Metro is in development, plan accordingly. Take a tram to Forskningsparken, bus to Gaustad, or a Voi from Majorstuen.

Enter by main entrance (it's not the garage on Google Maps)

_____________HOW TO PREPARE______________

Arrive with a couple ideas

Everyone has equal opportunity to prepare.

Recommended resources

Models: Anthropic

Hosting: Github MCP

Deployment: Vercel MCP

Database: Supabase MCP

Sandboxes: Daytona MCP

Compute: Runpod MCP

Practicals

Bring your laptop, charger, headset

Use Guest Wifi. No password required

Please leave rooms super clean

_______________THANK YOU________________

Made possible by

AI Mad Lab

Startuplab