invite residential
SOON past edition (undated)
Organized by SOON (founded by a repeat hackathon winner/organizer; UofT-affiliated contact).
- Dates
- Dates unknown
- Format
- residential
- Where
- Private house (address shared with accepted hackers) · Greater Toronto Area
- Participants
- 50
- Teams
- 17
- Results
- featured only
How it is judged
No published rubric. Infer lenses from the judge profile and the prizes.
Judges. Past judges/speakers skew to founders with exits, a YC solo founder, and big-tech engineers/DevRel.
Listed as 'past judges and speakers'; not all may have judged.
Submissions and base rates
partial roster. 5 of 17 teams indexed. These counts describe what CrafterWIKI indexed, not what the event produced — do not read them as base rates.
| Project | Placement | Track | Domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auctopus Product idea to interactive prototype: brand research, 3D models, video and AI persona simulations. | Featured | — |
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| Lootboard AI marketplace for native in-game sponsorships that match brands to games and generate placements developers approve. | Featured | — |
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| Memento AI visual-memory system turning everyday video into searchable, explorable 3D memories. | Featured | — |
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| Oyster Sketches to 3D assets for Godot, plus an agent that edits your game codebase with hot reload. | Featured | — |
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| SAMM AI innovation platform compressing weeks of product work into an afternoon: idea to brand-aligned concept with strategy, visuals, 3D renders and video. | Featured | — |
|
Priors from other invite residential events
No confirmed winners from other events of this kind yet. Use patterns by kind of event and treat any prior as weak.
Organizer takeaways
- Outcomes claimed: 25% of hackers founded a startup, 4 hiring positions, 2 projects integrated into sponsors' systems, 30+ referrals, 300k social impressions.
Curator note. Year set to 2026 based on the founder's '2026' activity statement; exact dates unknown. Two of five featured projects (SAMM, Auctopus) pitch nearly the same idea-to-concept pipeline — a sponsor-fit signal (brand/3D/video generation sponsors) rather than originality.
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