Mini Internal Hackathon

We’re kicking off a 2-week internal hackathon to improve Cortensor’s end-to-end (E2E) flow and uncover bugs by building lightweight, creative tools and bots.

This is part of an ongoing internal initiative — future rounds will continue to support rapid iteration, internal improvements, and developer experience upgrades.

Public hackathons will follow later, after multiple internal rounds.

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Objective

Build small proof-of-concept (PoC) apps or bots that:

• Interact with the Cortensor API

• Improve node operator or developer experience

• Focus on usability, bug discovery, and creative tooling

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Prize Pool (in $COR equivalent)

• 🥇 1st Place: $200

• 🥈 2nd Place: $100

• 🥉 3rd Place: $50

Top projects may also receive monthly $COR grants for ongoing maintenance and improvement — just like community tooling and infra contributors.

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Project Ideas

Chat & Utility Bots

🔹 Ask Me Anything Bot

Telegram or web bot that answers user questions using Cortensor’s API. Optional: Restrict to certain domains (e.g., programming), or add tone/context options.

🔹 Tweet Generator

Web form or bot where users input a topic → generates tweet drafts via LLM API. Optional: Regenerate button or tone selector (bold, funny, serious).

🔹 Daily Motivation Bot

Sends one AI-generated motivational quote per day. Optional: Tone selector like “cheerful,” “serious,” or “sarcastic.”

🔹 Explain Like I’m 5

Simplifies complex topics into plain language. Prompt example: “Explain [Topic] like I’m five.”

🔹 Smart Reply Generator

Reads the last few Telegram messages and suggests natural replies (like Gmail Smart Reply).

🔹 Template Completion Tool

Takes structured input (e.g., tweet idea, email topic) and generates a polished version using prompt templates.

🔹 Eliza-Style Therapist Bot

Retro-style, supportive chatbot built on fixed personas and templates.

Agent-Based Ideas

🔹 Support Agent Bot

Build a basic support agent that helps answer node operator questions, provides setup steps, or links to relevant documentation using Cortensor API + RAG-like memory.

🔹 Task Validator Agent

An agent that reviews completed inference tasks (e.g., image, text) and flags potential quality issues — simulating part of the validator role with a helpful UI or Discord bot.

🔹 Feedback Collector Agent

Simple web/Telegram agent that periodically asks users for feedback on Cortensor experience (node running, test task, app flow) and stores the responses.

🔹 Cortensor Assistant Agent

A bot that knows the current DevNet, open issues, FAQs, and roadmap — usable in Discord or on the dashboard for internal team support.

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Community Collaboration

All internal hackathon projects will be shared and maintained via our public repo: 🔗 github.com/cortensor/community-projects This will become the home for all community-built tools, apps, infra, and experiments.

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Got Ideas or Feedback?

Suggest new ideas or form small teams by joining the conversation on Discord: 🔗 discord.gg/cortensor

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Let’s build fast, test creatively, and improve the network from within — one bot at a time. Public hackathons are coming soon, but it starts here.