Hackathon Showcase — 2026

Six ideas.
One weekend.
All live.

Our AI-native engineers turned blank slates into working products in 48 hours. Click through — everything you see is real and interactive.

6 Live prototypes
48h Build window
3 iOS apps
Maggie Jensen
Host
Your host today
Maggie Jensen

The hackathon was Jensen's idea — and it shows what happens when you give talented people space to build. Jensen works at Lightstrike Labs, where the team specialises in AI-first product engineering: shipping real, production-grade software at speed. What you're seeing today is a direct result of that culture.

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Click anything. It's all real.
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SHARESWELL
Gift Stock · Grow Wealth
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Shareswell
Web App

Shareswell

Gift stock to anyone — no paperwork, no hassle. A beautiful platform for meaningful financial gifting that grows over time.

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ALMERO
Student Living · UK
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Almero
Web App

Almero

Student living made easy — find accommodation with no deposit, all bills included, across the UK. Beautifully reimagined.

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BLACKSTONE
BREIT · Real Estate
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Blackstone BREIT
Web App

Blackstone

Bringing the power of Blackstone Real Estate to individual investors — BREIT reimagined with modern UX and real portfolio data.

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CLAM PACKED
iOS App
iOS Beta
🦪 Clam Packed
iOS App

Clam Packed

A native iOS experience crafted with care and speed — join the beta via TestFlight to see what our mobile team shipped in 48 hours.

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KAT BURKI
iOS App
iOS Beta
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Kat Burki
iOS App

Kat Burki

Premium skincare meets intuitive mobile — a beautifully crafted iOS app bringing the Kat Burki brand experience to life on device.

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SAME SKINCARE
iOS App
iOS Beta
✨ Same Skincare
iOS App

Same Skincare

Personalized skincare routines made effortless — an iOS app presenting clean, consistent regimens with elegance and clarity.

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The Moment We're In

The AI startup
revolution is
happening now.

We are living through the most significant shift in how software gets built since the internet itself. AI has collapsed the distance between an idea and a working product — from months to hours. The question is no longer whether your business needs this. It's whether you'll move before your competitors do.

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10× faster AI-native teams ship production software at a fraction of the traditional cost and timeline
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Any idea, validated Build a working prototype before your next board meeting — not your next funding round
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The playing field is level For the first time, a 5-person team can out-execute a 500-person one. If they know how.
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You bring the vision. We build the velocity.

Lightstrike's AI-native engineers don't just write code — they think in systems. Every engagement starts with your business goal and ends with something real, live, and yours.

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From incumbent to innovator, in weeks.

Whether you're an enterprise with legacy tech debt or a founder on a napkin sketch, AI unlocks the same extraordinary speed. Lightstrike bridges where you are to where you need to be.

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The hackathon you saw? That's our baseline.

Six production-quality products. One weekend. No legacy constraints. Imagine what we can do with your brand, your data, and a real runway. This is what AI-first engineering looks like at full throttle.

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Don't watch the revolution. Join it.

Every week you wait, a competitor is shipping. Lightstrike exists to make sure your business is on the right side of this moment — not reading about it in a case study three years from now.

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