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Welcome to the Amazon Developer Hackathon
For the first time, Fire TV, Alexa+, Ring, and Bee are all part of one global hackathon. Build for one product or use several to connect the living room, the front door, and the cloud. Get started now with our SDKs, simulators, and sample code.
New to building for Amazon devices and services? We'll help you get from idea to submission with documentation and live office hours. Use our AI tools to prototype and troubleshoot along the way.
Choose a track and show off what you build! 🚀
Why join?
Be part of the first hackathon where Fire TV, Alexa+, Ring, and Bee are all open to outside developers at once
Your product feedback goes directly to the teams building Fire TV, Alexa+, Ring, and Bee
Compete for a share of $190K value of cash and AWS credits, plus a 1:1 meeting with the Amazon Developer team for track winners
Get Started
Pick your track: Fire TV, Alexa+, Bee, or Ring
Set up the developer environment for your track (see
Resources
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Review the track details and requirements to start building
Submit your working demo, code repo, and product feedback by the deadline
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Requirements
What to Build
Pick a primary track and ship a working demo. You can layer a mini challenge onto the same project for extra ways to win, but each project can only win one track prize and one mini challenge prize.
Build or significantly update working applications using Amazon Developer tools into the following primary tracks:
Fire TV
Launch a demo-ready app on Fire OS or Vega OS. Use React Native, web technologies, or Android (Kotlin/Java), any framework is fine, as long as it runs on Fire OS or Vega OS.
Priority categories: AI-enhanced viewing, sports, fitness, family entertainment, multi-modal UX, and computer vision.
Alexa+
Experience how brands in Preview are building and shipping experiences on Alexa+ that our customers love:
Build a self-hosted MCP server (spec 2025-11-25 or later, Streamable HTTP) or an Agent Skill. MCP is the open standard that powers Alexa+ integrations.
New to MCP? Build a simulated Alexa+ experience in a web app using your preferred agentic tool.
Bee (Wearable AI)
Build a project that connects to real data recorded and processed through a Bee device or an Apple Watch running Bee software, using Bee's CLI, MCP, or Agent Skills. Your demo needs to show your project actually using that data to do something useful for a person.
Priority use cases: education, developer experience, and personal productivity.
Ring
Build a new app or extend an existing one using Ring APIs, SDKs, simulators, or devices. A physical Ring device is not required.
Priority categories: access control, business systems, IoT home automation, accessibility, and caretaking.
Mini Challenges (additional opportunities alongside your primary track)
AWS Builder
Use AWS services (Bedrock, AgentCore, Strands SDK, Kiro Crew, SageMaker, etc.) in your project with documented integrations, and you're in.
Building with Kiro Crew qualifies on its own, you don't also need to call a separate AWS runtime service.
Open Source
Ship a new, additional open-source project (include an open-source license) or a contribution (a branch, a fork, or a pull request) to a public repository during the hackathon window, alongside your primary-track submission. PRs don't need to be merged; a forked, unmerged version is fine.
Include the contribution URL, your repo URL, your GitHub username, and a short description of what you did, how it works, and why it matters.
What to Submit
A text description of your project:
explain what it does and how it works.
A GitHub code repository:
must contain all source code, assets, and instructions needed to run your project. The repository must be either public and open source by including an open source license file OR private and shared with
[email protected]
and
the Amazon team
(info below).
To share your project with the Amazon team, open your repo’s
Settings > Collaborators > Add people
and add the usernames below.
GitHub walk through here
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Amazon Developer Relations GitHub profiles:
Kourtney Meiss:
https://github.com/knmeiss
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Judging Criteria
Tech Implementation
How well is the project built, and how effectively does it use the required tech? Does it effectively leverage the required APIs, SDKs, or device capabilities for the specified track or mini-challenge?
Design
Does the project deliver a complete, coherent product experience? Is the interaction model intuitive and well-considered for the target device or platform?
Potential Impact
Does the project make a credible, specific case for solving customer needs? Could it realistically serve an audience beyond the hackathon?
Quality of the Idea
Is this a creative, imaginative use of the required tools? Does the team demonstrate a genuine understanding of the developer ecosystem and the end-user needs within their chosen track?