Hack with Cloudinary
Build a Production-Ready Media App in One Weekend
Skip the clunky media infrastructure and focus on building something real.
What You’ll Build
Hackathon teams using Cloudinary have built real products such as Opera AI, a Hack Canada winner tackling the tradesperson shortage in Canada. With Cloudinary’s Hackathon-ready tooling, you can build:
- An AI-powered media optimization pipeline.
- Real-time media video transformations like resize, crop, and compress.
- Automatic performance optimization on every media delivery.
Opera.AI started as a hackathon project to help address Canada’s tradesperson shortage. It won the Cloudinary Challenge at Hack Canada.
Get Up and Running in One Command
If you want to create a new app for your project, try a Starter Kit.
‘npx create-cloudinary-next’
or
‘npx create-cloudinary-react’It works with your existing web dev stack and requires no prior experience or complex setup.
If you have an existing app or want to use a different framework, try our Skills Pack
Want to get started quickly with a detailed AI prompt? Try our AI Power Start
The Cloudinary Challenge
Your mission is to use Cloudinary’s Starter Kits or Skills Pack to build a web app that shows what’s possible with Cloudinary’s powerful media platform.
Requirements
- Use the React or Next.js AI Starter Kit and/or our AI Skills Pack or AI Power Start Prompt.
- Ship something functional and production-ready.
- Show an innovative use of Cloudinary’s media capabilities.
- Tell us about your experience building it!
What You Can Win
- Amazon gift card to each member of the winning team.
- Credits boost for winning and honorable mention projects.
- Top projects featured by Cloudinary.
- Real production skills and a project worth putting in your portfolio.
Hear From Past Hackathon Participants
Start Building
Everything you need is already set up.
No credit card required.