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VibeHack London
A 24-hour AI hackathon at UCL for builders, hackers, and future founders.
£10,000 prize pool.
Free access to top AI tools.
Best Vibe Coder wins a Mac15 PRO.
VibeHack London is a 24-hour AI hackathon built around one simple idea:
What happens when you put London’s most ambitious student builders in a room and give them 24 hours to ship a real AI product?
This is not a pitch competition.
This is not a slide deck event.
This is a full weekend for people who want to build fast, experiment hard, and bring ideas to life with AI at the center of everything.
Hosted at UCL, VibeHack London brings together students, early builders, hackers, designers, medics, researchers, and startup-minded people from across UCL, Imperial, KCL, Queen Mary, LSE, and the wider London ecosystem.
Whether you want to prototype a health tool, an AI workflow product, a new consumer app, or something completely unexpected, this is your chance to test, build, and show what you can do.
The Challenge
- You have 24 hours to build and ship
- You must demo a live working AI product
- No slides, no concept-only pitches
- Judging rewards creativity, execution, usability, technical skill, and real-world potential
- This is for people who actually want to make things
What to Expect
- A full weekend of hacking and experimentation
- Workshops, sponsor intros, and tool demos
- Mentorship and guidance throughout the event
- Builders, founders, students, and AI people all in one room
- Demo Day presentations and live judging
- Real products shipped by the end of the weekend
More details on schedule, judges, workshops, sponsors, and prizes will be announced in the run-up to the event.
Who Should Join
This event is for you if you are:
- into vibe coding
- curious about AI native products
- a student builder, hacker, designer, researcher, or founder
- excited by rapid prototyping and shipping
- more interested in making something real than talking about it endlessly
You do not need to be a full-time engineer to join.
We welcome technical and non-technical builders alike.
Final Note
London has no shortage of smart people.
What’s rarer is getting them in one room, with the right tools, under time pressure, and asking them to actually build.
That’s what VibeHack London is for.
Come build. Come ship. Come vibe.