Past eventRote Playoffs Hackathon
A week-long online hackathon for Modiqo's Rote: developers built reusable AI agent workflows, called Plays, that other people could actually pick up and run.
- Client
- Modiqo (Rote)
- Dates
- Format
- Online
- Prize pool
- $5,000
Client & challenge
Modiqo builds Rote, a platform for turning AI agent work into Plays: reusable, inspectable workflows that solve a repeated task.
A new workflow primitive only spreads when developers build with it. Modiqo needed builders to ship real Plays, not demos, and needed people to see them.
Theme & prizes
Build a Play that runs, and make it clear enough that someone who didn't build it can pick it up and trust it.
- It works: the Play runs end to end
- It's clear: a non-builder can understand and trust it
- It gets used: real adoption beyond the author
Prizes worth $5,000
- 1st placeMacBook Pro
- 2nd placeiPad
- 3rd placeiPhone 17
- Best social postsApple Watch
What we did
Creator-driven promotion
We activated developer creators from our network to drive sign-ups and social buzz before and during the event.
End-to-end execution
Event page, registration, community support, submission review, and winner selection. Modiqo focused on the product; we ran the hackathon.
Results
- Registered developers
- 1,142
- Companies represented
- 997
- Founders & execs
- 161
- In technical roles
- 73%
- From enterprise companies
- 1 in 3
Developers from teams at Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Salesforce, and Adobe registered.
Blog posts & links
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