AI Tinkerers presents the Interfaces Hackathon with Claude, hosted in NYC with support from Anthropic, Tavus, Redis, and CopilotKit. 🎨⚙️🌆

This hackathon invites you to explore what’s possible at the interface layer now that tools like Claude make the hard parts easy. With so much compute, reasoning, and ideation power instantly available, the constraint isn’t the model anymore - it’s our imagination for how people use it.

We’re bringing together designers, engineers, and product-minded builders to experiment with UI patterns old and new: sliders, keypads, menus, timelines, pop-ups, cards, canvases, keyboards, windows, and layouts that break convention entirely. Work alongside Anthropic engineers, builders from the AI Tinkerers community, and a curated room of serious creators as we prototype the next wave of UI patterns for AI. No slide decks, no hand-waving. Bring your design instincts, your engineering skills, and ship something real. Your mission: build experiences that feel fresh, playful, and newly possible.

🎯 Hackathon Theme: Generative Interfaces × Claude

As AI becomes more capable, the bottleneck shifts from raw intelligence to how humans access it.

This weekend is about:

• Trying UI ideas you’ve never had time to test
• Using Claude to help you iterate, prototype, and ship
• Reframing everyday tasks through unexpected UX
• Interfaces that adapt with purpose
• Tools where interaction is the innovation
• Designing experiences that feel different, not just smarter
• Asking “now that the AI is powerful, what should the screen look like?”

We’re not chasing enterprise use cases or grand societal impact.

We’re chasing novel experiences, thought-starters, and experiments that stretch the imagination for how humans touch intelligent systems.

If you’ve ever looked at a dropdown menu and thought “this is the last decade talking,” this is your playground.

Space is limited and curated — RSVP required.

🤖 Who Is This For?

This hackathon is for builders who want to make software feel new again, builders who care about how things feel, not just how they run:

• Full-stack engineers
• Front-end and UX designers
• Product thinkers & founders
• Engineers with taste
• AI Tinkerers who like weird interfaces, toy apps, and clever workflows

You should be able to code- but you don’t need to be an ML wizard.
This is fully in-person only.
No remote teams. No tourists. No spectators.

We admit 100–150 vetted participants.
Show us your GitHub, bring your skills, find your team on site.

Prizes

Submit here for complimentary Anthropic credits.

(more prizes to be announced)

1st $2.5k in Anthropic credits 

2nd $1.5k in Anthropic credits

3rd $1k in Anthropic credits

👑 Marquee Sponsor: Anthropic

Anthropic builds helpful, reliable AI systems, including Claude, now powering emerging multimodal and UI-forward developer workflows.
Their team will be onsite with guidance, credits, and technical support to help bring your concepts to life.

Community Sponsors: 

Tavus 

Tavus is a San Francisco–based AI research lab pioneering human computing, teaching machines the art of being human. We build foundational models that let AI see, hear, and respond like people do. We’re turning the promise of science fiction into reality, where computing feels instinctive and truly alive. Because the next intelligence is emotional.

Redis

Redis is the world’s fastest in-memory database. It provides cloud and on-prem solutions for caching, vector search, and NoSQL databases that seamlessly fit into any tech stack—making it simple for digital customers to build, scale, and deploy the fast apps our world runs on.

CopilotKit

CopilotKit is the Agentic Application Framework: the easiest way to build AI copilots into your app, with support to connect any LLM or build with any agent framework via the AG-UI protocol.

Special Thanks to Our Venue Host

Betaworks - Betaworks has been a foundational part of the NYC tech ecosystem for the last 15 years – first, as a startup studio building brands you know and love like Giphy, Tweetdeck, Bit.ly, and Dots, and more recently as a pre-seed and seed-stage investor in companies like HuggingFace and Stability AI, among many others.