👾 2025
Vibe Coding
Hackathon
Code, Vibe, and Build Amazing Things Together!
About the Hackathon
Welcome to the 👾 2025 Vibe Coding Hackathon! Here you can view all the amazing projects submitted by our participants and explore their innovative solutions!
🧭 Vibe Coding Rubric & Scoring Policy
🔍 Rubric Scope & Policy
- Projects will be evaluated by a human judging panel drawn from industry, academia, and innovation sectors, with AI-assisted reference for consistency.
- Judgments are human-led, not AI-only or AI-dominated.
- Teams will receive qualitative feedback and rubric-based summaries.
- Final numeric scores will not be publicly disclosed, but relative rankings will appear on the leaderboard.
🧩 Scoring Categories (100 Points Total)
Projects are evaluated on five dimensions, each weighted equally at 20 points.
| Category | Description | Key Considerations |
|---|---|---|
| Functionality (20 pts) | How well the project works. | Feature completeness, correctness, reliability, error handling, innovation, and alignment between documentation and demo performance. |
| UI/UX Design (20 pts) | How users interact and feel. | Clarity of interface, flow, accessibility, responsiveness, and polish. A clean, intuitive design earns higher marks. |
| Impact (20 pts) | Why it matters. | Significance of the problem solved, creativity, real-world or academic relevance, scalability, and potential for adoption or further development. |
| Prompt Quality (20 pts) | How well the AI is used. | Prompt clarity, reproducibility, safety/guardrails, adaptability, and engineering craftsmanship. Demonstrate thoughtful LLM utilization. |
| Readability (20 pts) | How easy it is to understand and maintain. | Code clarity, modularity, documentation completeness, demo instructions, and README organization. Professionalism counts. |
⏱️ Milestones & Bonus Points
Spark Track
- Intermediate Milestones: Oct 8, Oct 14, Oct 20
- Final: Oct 24
Build / Launch Track
- Intermediate Milestones: Oct 14, Oct 20, Oct 26
- Final: Oct 31
Bonus System
- +4% for the first on-time milestone
- +2% for the second
- +1% for the third
- Maximum total bonus: +7%
- Submissions after the third milestone receive no additional bonus.
🧠 Judging Considerations
- Judges will read the README/documentation and watch the demo video before evaluating the live demo.
- LLM disclosure is mandatory — clarity about model choice and use will influence the Prompt Quality score.
- Extra features are encouraged, but only reliable, working features count.
- Evaluation combines documented evidence (readme, video, code) and observed performance (demo).
🏅 Scoring Matrix
| Rating | Score Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Excellent | 17–20 pts | Fully meets or exceeds expectations; complete, well-documented, and highly reliable. Outstanding presentation and innovation. |
| Good | 13–16 pts | Solid and mostly complete; minor gaps or polish issues; good usability and documentation. |
| Fair | 9–12 pts | Functional but inconsistent; incomplete documentation or unclear design; limited testing. |
| Poor | 0–8 pts | Major missing components, unreliable demo, or insufficient documentation. |