01Real cases
Actual problems from real companies, not toy briefs. What you build can go somewhere.
For builders
Come build something real in 36 hours
A real company's problem, a team you pick yourself, 36 hours. You ship a working prototype, get seen by the companies in the room, and leave sharper than you came.
“Confetti nearly gave us a heart attack, but we did have a blast!!”
- 36
- hours from kickoff to pitch
- 0
- CHF to enter
- 4
- builders per team at most
Free to enterFood and a mattress includedFrom 16
What builders ship.
Working prototypes on real cases, built in 36 hours. Here is the podium of a recent sprint. Play the demos.
BanTender
01SPAM²
From tender to priced offer.
Equans Switzerland caseCase winner- 49/60
- case calls classified correctly
- 0/28
- false alarms on clean calls
Sherlock Phones
02Sodium Secure
Swiss German bank calls, checked for fraud and compliance. Self-hosted, no cloud API.
Inventx × Outcept caseCase winnerFavon
03Favon
Tenders in, clear air out.
Equans Switzerland case
36 hours, start to finish.
What a sprint looks like from your seat. Food, drinks, a mattress and showers are on us, so nothing pulls you away from building.
Friday01The cases are revealedCompanies walk on stage with a real problem. You pick the one you want to crack. 
Friday02Teams come togetherBring your team or build one on the spot, with people you chose yourself. 
Friday night03The build startsLaptops open, first ideas on the wall. Work through the night or sleep a few hours. 
Saturday04Mentors at your tableExperienced people walk the room and help you sharpen what you have. 
All weekend05Fed and looked afterMeals, drinks and snacks around the clock. You bring a sleeping bag, we bring the rest. 
Sunday06You pitch it liveA working demo in front of the jury and the companies that brought the cases. 
Sunday07Awards and confettiWinners per case and overall. Everyone leaves with something they built.
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Six reasons to spend a weekend on it.
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02Get seen
The jury and the companies in the room watch how you work. A strong weekend can turn into a job, an internship or a first customer.
03Pick your own team
Come with friends or alone. If you come alone, you browse the others and choose who you want to build with. Nobody gets thrown into a random team.
04Mentors on tap
Founders, engineers and domain experts move between the teams and unblock you fast.
05Prizes worth winning
Real prize money per case and overall, and a demo that goes straight to the top of your CV.
06Leave sharper
New tools, new people, a new field. Even if you don't win, you go home knowing more than when you came.
And five more
- Meet your co-founderThe room is full of ambitious people. Some of the best companies started at a table like this.
- Learn fastWorkshops, mentors and teammates who know things you don't. More in a weekend than in a month.
- Discover a new fieldBuild on a topic and with companies you might never have touched. It could turn out to be yours.
- Find your next ideaA real problem and a focused weekend is how a lot of companies start.
- Build with the best toolsUse the latest tools and credits, see what everyone else ships with them.
Built for mixed teams.
~30%of our builders are women.
Every sprint has a separate, quiet sleeping area for women.
What builders said afterwards.
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Confetti nearly gave us a heart attack, but we did have a blast!!
Builder, team SPAM²LinkedInThank you for the long nights, the sharp ideas and for making 36 hours feel like a sprint we'd happily run again.
Builder, team FavonLinkedInThank you Sprintd for making your first hackathon my very first one. What a weekend, full of learning
Builder, team TypescriptLinkedInA number nobody can trace is a number nobody will use.
Builder, team Ctrl+FreeLinkedInOver one intense weekend we built an AI prototype combining speech recognition, LLM-based fact extraction, deterministic policy rules and explainable compliance decisions.
Builder, Inventx × Outcept caseLinkedIn36 hours, one 200+ page tender, and a tool that gets bid teams to a first price they can trust. So proud of this team
Builder, team FavonLinkedIn
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