Pushing to Prod with Genspark, Anthropic and Temasek
Once in a while, we get to host hackathons with a concise group of builders in a different country. This time, it was Singapore. As of writing this, Singapore also happens to rank #1 in AI adoption according to the Anthropic Economic Index.
On 24th April 2026, we hosted Push to Prod Hackathon by Genspark and Claude, in partnership with Genspark.ai, Anthropic, and Temasek, at Temasek Shophouse. We had over 100 builders joined us in person to hack at the venue.
At a glance, 100 hackers might not sound like much. But hackathons are never about scale for the sake of it. Push to Prod was designed as a 5-hour sprint for working professionals to come together and build something that had been slowing them down in their workflow for a long time.
From Idea to Output in 5 Hours
What stood out immediately was the pace.
Building functional projects in 5 hours used to feel unrealistic. That is changing fast. With AI agents and coding platforms evolving rapidly, the bottleneck is no longer writing code line by line. It is thinking clearly about architecture, workflows, and how your system should interact with intelligence and how you as a builder can make use of resources and orchestrate them properly to build a working project.
With access to Genspark and Claude, builders got straight to work.
By the end of the sprint, we had:
- 107 builders checked in
- 45 projects were submitted
- Every single project was built during the hackathon
The output was not just fast but was practical as well. We had teams that worked on internal business tools, reduced repetitive design loops, and built systems that could immediately plug into their day to day workflows.
Setting the Stage
To kick things off, we had two sessions that helped builders get up to speed quickly for building in the next 5 hours of the hackathon
Jennifer Lin, Head of Marketing from Genspark walked through how teams could effectively use Genspark and Genspark Claw in their projects, while Katelyn Lesse, Head of Platform Engineering at Anthropic, introduced how to work with Claude in a practical, builder-first way with insights into the architecture of how Claude is built and thus how builders can make the most of using Claude for building their projects
Both sessions were short, sharp, and immediately useful. Although the tools are widely known, builders got a good amount of understand of the architecture of agents of both the platforms and how to make the most of them to build their projects.
The Most Focused Hackathon Room
Right now, the internet loves to portray builder culture as loud and chaotic. Fast cuts. Dramatic music. Energy spilling everywhere.
But when people are actually building, especially in a high-focus offline environment, it looks very different and I am happy to be reminded of how a focused mindset and work looks like via this hackathon.
This was one of the quietest and focused hackathon rooms I have seen in a long time. You could hear the keyboards and the Occasional clicks, with literally a pin drop silence and builders glued to their screen for building their projects in the 5 hour sprint
More than 100 people in a room, fully locked in.
We usually spend a lot of time walking around, talking to participants, collecting feedback, and being in the middle of everything. This time, it felt out of place to interrupt. Everyone was deep in their flow. Conversations only really picked up during lunch and snack breaks.
And this was so much interesting to watch unfold IRL during the hackathon.
Builders, Conversations, and Context
We saw something similar during BlockTrain. When you keep the group concise, the nature of interaction changes and is so much more interesting and the focus you can bring to the conversation to make it fruitful
At Push to Prod, we had the ratio of
- ~70% working professionals
- ~30% students
which worked towards solving the daily bottleneck problems in their workflow. Conversations with such a focused group of builders were more grounded and contextual. Less about experimenting for the sake of it, and more about solving real problems.
The overall sentiment was practical and optimistic in the room.
Building Without Friction
This was also one of the first hackathons where we rolled out Devfolio MCP for submissions.
Instead of filling long forms, builders could submit projects by chatting with an agent directly from their terminal.
It made submissions significantly faster and kept the focus where it should be on building. Devfolio MCP is now live in production and available to all hackers once they check in to a hackathon.
The Top Projects
Out of 44 submissions, after almost an hour of shortlisting, we were ablet to get to the top 5 teams for the hackathon who then presented their solutions on the stage.
Top 5 (in no specific order):
The evaluation was conducted by Jo Kennedy from Anthropic, Jennifer Lin from Genspark, and Maynard Kang from Temasek.
Participants competed for $18,200 worth of credits from Genspark and Claude.
Final Winners:
🥇 ConnectCrew
An AI-powered CRM that uses a crew of specialized agents to automatically keep your professional relationship graph up to date.
🥈 Vendor Wrangler
An AI agent that handles all your vendor communications and negotiations so you never have to email a supplier yourself.
🥉 Unscatter
An AI-powered knowledge base that automatically organizes your company's scattered information into a searchable, always-up-to-date brain.
A Room That Worked
It was genuinely fun putting this together.
The venue added a lot to the overall experience. A special shoutout to the Temasek team for hosting us at Temasek Shophouse and making the entire event seamless.
Push to Prod was one of the most concise hackathons we have hosted in the recent times and it was so much refreshing to see the builder's focused energy towards their projects in the event.