A good Saturday in Stockholm

Almost half the submissions tried integrating condense. One person got knighted.

On Saturday 3 October, 70 builders met at Norrsken in Stockholm for the {Tech: Europe} Agentic AI Hack. Teams formed in the morning, built through the day and gave live demos in the evening. We helped organise it with {Tech: Europe}, Google DeepMind, Norrsken, Matrix OS and EQT Ventures & Growth.

condense started at a hackathon. This time we got to support other people starting something of their own.

A full room at Norrsken, with people seated and standing, all facing the front. — The room at Norrsken. Photos: {Tech: Europe}.

Our challenge was to build condense into your product, and the best integration of the proxy won. We brought an €800 prize, 3.5k in credits and three months free for everyone.

Illia Filipas speaking into a microphone in front of a slide about building condense into your product. — Illia Filipas presenting the condense challenge.

The winners

First place: Valentina Halasi and Max Gfeller built solutions to help blind people.
Second place: Lingjun Liao 廖苓君, Beloslava Malakova and Quentin Albrecht made language learning more fun with AI.
Third place: Yunfei Yu and Patrik Omari built a code review tool that lives on an external device.
condense challenge: Oskar Männik, Songhua Chen, Toivo Kallio and Rene Saarikko built Haggle, an AI agent that finds second-hand items, flags scams and negotiates with sellers on your behalf.

At basedhack in May we knighted a builder with a saber and a new name, Sir Condenser. We brought a sword to Stockholm too. This time the knighthood went to Amogh Banta.

A speaker with a microphone holding up a gold-hilted sword next to a laptop. — The sword, on stage at Norrsken.

Thanks to Job Vernik for putting this together with us, and to everyone who gave condense a go.