The Weirdest Hackathon on the Internet

A 48-hour online hackathon for the gloriously, deliberately weird.

Hosted by OnlyWorks × Orbis
Fully online. Free to enter.

Most hackathons want you to pitch a startup.

This one doesn't.

Build the project you'd never put on a résumé — the cursed, the useless, the beautifully pointless thing you've been too embarrassed to ship. Then prove it ran (at least once) and demo it live to a room full of strangers.

The Three Weird Laws

Build the thing you'd never put on a résumé.
Prove it ran — at least once. Demos > slides.
Demo it to a stranger.

Four Flavours of Weird

Useless Engineering

Leaves the world exactly as broken as it found it.

Cursed Technology

The demo where a judge says:

"I hate that this works."

Beautiful Trash

Ugliest input. Heart-stoppingly elegant output.

Demo Theatre

The demo is the project.

How It Works

Thursday, June 18 · 5:00 PM ET

Kickoff livestream + theme reveal. The 48-hour clock begins.

Build for 48 Hours

Fully online
Solo or teams of up to 4
On your own machine
AI assistance allowed

Saturday, June 20 · 5:00 PM ET

Submissions close.

Saturday Evening we will have live-streamed finals.

Finalists will demo their projects to the judges and a livestream full of strangers through an unmarked URL.

Prizes

Grand Prize — "Verified Weird"

$500 cash
Featured showcase
The most embarrassing trophy we could afford

(Winner announced at the end of July.)

Additional Awards

Track prizes
People's Choice Award
Judge-named awards
Certificates and mentorship from the judging panel

Cost to enter: $0

Who It's For

Builders, designers, artists, hackers, and degenerate tinkerers who would rather ship the joke than slide-deck the empire.

AI assistance is welcome.
AI submitting on its own behalf is not.
Open-source what you build.

Register. Join the Discord. Bring Something Weird.

Questions: weird@only-works.com

OnlyWorks are bringing together a community of builders who care more about making strange things real than making them marketable.

OnlyWorks is proof of real work, not résumés.

For one weekend, we're celebrating projects that should never have existed — but somehow do.

​The Three Weird Laws

​Four Flavours of Weird

​How It Works

​Prizes

OnlyHacks

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