Build a business in 30 days and win $100,000

A 30-day hackathon by Higgsfield, Marc Lou and Jack Friks. Starting November 16, you build a new software or mobile app business from scratch. The businesses with the most profit after 30 days win, verified through TrustMRR and reviewed manually:

1. 🥇$100,000
2. 🥈iPhone Duo
3. 🥉MacBook Neo

By profit, not revenue: the three businesses with the most profit after 30 days take first, second and third place. Every business is reviewed by hand before it can win:

• It must be brand new, started on November 16 or later, so existing businesses are out.
• We look up the domain's history on the Wayback Machine (opens in a new tab) for earlier landing pages.
• We check the payment provider account and its history (no customers or payments before the start), and everything else.

Opening a Stripe account a few days early is fine. What matters is that the product, the site and the customers start from zero. Full details arrive on launch day.

Monday, November 16 at 3:00 PM your time. It runs for 30 days, until December 16.

You'll build software or a mobile app, and the details come on launch day. Courses, agencies, e-commerce and anything outside those two categories don't count.

Nothing. It's free for everyone: sign up with your name and email, one entry per person. Ship or Die members can log in and join from this page in one click.

You land on your entry page, where you check your details so you're ready for the hackathon.

Plan your idea, but build and register nothing for it until launch day: a domain, TrustMRR listing or store listing set up early gets you disqualified. You can open an account with a payment provider TrustMRR (opens in a new tab) supports (Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Paddle, Dodo Payments, RevenueCat, Superwall, App Store, Creem, Whop, Shopify or Razorpay) a few days early, as long as it has no customers or payments before the start. On launch day, connect it to TrustMRR.