Nominees & Winners
The projects and people that defined AI-assisted software this year. Congratulations to all nominees.
The Slop Cannon
The Slop Cannon (Individual)
Sarah Chen
WinnerSingle-handedly rebuilt an entire payment processing system in a weekend using Claude, shipping zero bugs to production.
by Independent
Marcus Rivera
Created a real-time collaboration engine by having a 14-hour pair programming session with AI. The commit messages alone are legendary.
by NightOwl Labs
Priya Sharma
Took an idea from napkin sketch to 50k users in 30 days, with AI as her only engineering partner.
by Solo Founder
The Slop Cannon (Team)
Team Mastra
WinnerBuilt an entire open-source AI agent framework with AI assistance at every level — from architecture to docs to tests.
by Mastra
The Vibe Machine
A three-person team that shipped a production design tool in 6 weeks, using AI for 80% of the codebase.
by Vibe Machine Co.
Open Artifacts Collective
An open-source community that used AI-assisted development to build and maintain 12 critical developer tools.
by Open Artifacts
Category Awards
Best Prompt That Somehow Worked
The 47-Line System Prompt
WinnerA single prompt that generated an entire microservice architecture. Nobody knows how.
by Team Yolo Deploy
Fix Everything™
The prompt was literally "fix everything" and it… did.
by Midnight Hackers
The Haiku Prompt
A prompt written in haiku format that produced flawless TypeScript.
by Zen Coders
Outstanding Achievement in Vibe Coding
LoFi Dashboard
A production analytics dashboard built entirely through vibes and good energy.
by Chill Devs
Meditation Timer Pro
WinnerBuilt in one session with ambient music playing. The code is suspiciously calm.
by Inner Peace Engineering
The Jazz Commit
An entire feature branch committed with jazz playing. Every function is improvisational.
by Blue Note Labs
Best AI-Assisted Open Source Project
AutoSchema
WinnerAn open-source schema generator that uses AI to infer database structures from natural language.
by Open Table Collective
DocuMind
AI-powered documentation that actually stays up to date with your codebase.
by ReadMe Rangers
TestPilot
Generates comprehensive test suites by analyzing your code patterns.
by Quality Crew
Best Supporting Copilot
Claude
WinnerFor being helpful, harmless, and occasionally too honest about your code quality.
by Anthropic
Cursor Tab
The autocomplete that reads your mind (and your TODO comments).
by Cursor
GitHub Copilot
The OG. Still going strong. Still suggesting console.log.
by GitHub
The "Ship It" Award
Weekend SaaS
A fully functional SaaS product built in 48 hours using AI pair programming.
by Saturday Shippers
Lunchbreak App
WinnerConceived at 12:01, deployed at 12:58. The lunch break that changed everything.
by Speed Demons
The Hackathon Hero
Won first place at a hackathon with an app built almost entirely by AI in 3 hours.
by Ctrl+C Ctrl+V
Most Dramatic Refactor
The Great Migration
WinnerMoved 200k lines from JavaScript to TypeScript using AI. Zero runtime errors.
by Type Safety Squad
Monolith Breaker
AI-assisted decomposition of a 10-year-old monolith into 47 microservices.
by Micro Managers
The CSS Cleanup
Reduced 15,000 lines of CSS to 2,000 lines of Tailwind. Some say the old CSS still haunts the repo.
by Style Surgeons
Best Slop Fork
TurboDB
WinnerForked a popular ORM, used AI to rewrite the query engine, and somehow made it 10x faster. The original maintainers are confused but impressed.
by Fork Yeah
BetterAuth.js
Took an abandoned auth library, had Claude rewrite every module, and now it has more stars than the original.
by Auth Avengers
Redux Reloaded
AI-assisted fork that stripped Redux down to 200 lines and added time-travel debugging that actually works.
by State Machines
Emerging Slop
SketchFlow
WinnerA first-time founder who used AI to build a whiteboard-to-code tool in 3 weeks. Now used by 200 design teams.
by Jamie Torres (Solo)
PatchQL
A college student’s side project that lets you query git history with natural language. Built entirely with AI assistance.
by Alex Kim
MealMap
A weekend project that became the #1 Product Hunt launch of the month. The entire backend was AI-generated.
by Hungry Hackers
Think We Missed Someone?
Nominations are still open. Submit your pick before the deadline.