ZEROHACK
Build for a person. Not a demo.
This is not your startup weekend.
Zero Hack is a two-day virtual hackathon where teams build real products for real users. No toy demos. No pitch decks. You start with a person and their problem. You scaffold with the Zero Vector methodology. You build, you test with actual humans, and you present a working product.
Methodology matters as much as code.
Four sessions. One through-line.
Problem & People
Define your user. Frame their problem. Populate your VECTOR.md with real research. No code yet — you’re earning the right to build.
Stack & Scaffold
Pick your stack. Wire your environment. Lay the architecture. By the end of tonight, you have a repo with intent behind it.
Build & Validate
Code. Ship. Then recruit 3–5 real users and put it in their hands. Their feedback is your compass for the final session.
Polish & Present
Sharpen what the users told you matters. Then demo it — not as a pitch, but as proof that you listened.
The rubric is the curriculum.
Can you name them? Describe their day? Explain what’s broken in their workflow without hand-waving? Start there or don’t start.
VECTOR.md populated. Research documented. Architecture decisions recorded. The discipline is the differentiator.
Running code. Real architecture. Something a user can touch. Not a mockup. Not a pitch deck.
You put it in front of 3–5 actual people. They gave you feedback. You changed something because of it. That’s the whole game.
Published before the event starts. No secrets, no surprises. You know exactly how to win before you write a line of code.
Your Hackathon Hosts
30 years of design leadership. Ex-NASA. Systems Auteur. The person who built Zero Vector and won a VR hackathon with clip-art.
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We’re not giving away gift cards.
We’re giving away capability.
Why a Mac mini?
Because agents don’t sleep when you do. A Mac mini is an always-on home lab — your agents keep running when you close your laptop. Part of the prize is the setup: Tailscale for remote access from anywhere, tmux for persistent sessions, and the configuration to talk to your agents from your phone, your tablet, or a beach. Close the lid on your MacBook and your agents go dark. The mini stays awake.
- Full Zero Vector methodology docs
- Lifetime community access
- Completion credential