Hackathon: Humanizing The Prototype

Build a PAL: Tavus x Lovable Hackathon (with ProductTank SF)
Spend one day building a PAL, a new kind of application you talk to, one that sees you, hears you, remembers you, and gets to know you over time, then ship it live inside a real app.
🏆 $5,000 in prizes
🥇 1st place: $3,000
🥈 2nd place: $1,500
🥉 3rd place: $500
Every winning team also takes home a special credits package from Lovable and Tavus, so the PAL you start here is one you can keep building.
⏳ 100 seats, and they are going fast
This room is capped at 100 builders and it is filling up quickly. Register now and complete the short screening form to hold your spot. We use your answers to build balanced teams, so everyone walks out having shipped something they are proud of.
What you'll build
This is where PALmaker meets Lovable. You describe the PAL you want in plain words, and PALmaker builds the whole thing, no code and no settings to crawl through, while Lovable's rapid UI generation builds and ships the app it lives in. By the time the session ends, you have a real PAL at a live, published URL.
A PAL is not a face that talks at you. It is the whole thing: perception so it can see and hear you, memory so it holds onto what matters, judgment and personality so it knows when to push and when to listen, with a face and a voice so it meets you the way a person would. That is the difference between a tool you operate and a counterpart you talk to, and it is what you get to build today.
✨ A glimpse of what's possible
This is not a menu to build from. It is a handful of glimpses, just enough to feel the range before you make your own.
Picture a DJ that reads the energy of the room, takes requests by voice, and talks back between tracks like a real host, living inside a music app.
Imagine a sidekick that wakes up when you open your laptop, sees what you are working on, remembers where you got stuck yesterday, notices when you are frustrated, and picks the work back up with you.
Picture a sales rep that joins your Google Meet, pulls up the right slide at the right moment, reads the room as the conversation turns, handles the objections, and runs the call end to end.
Imagine a coach, for a language or a sport or the interview you have next week, that remembers every session, adapts to you over the weeks, and reaches out first when it is time to practice.
Picture a character out of a game you can actually sit and talk to, fully in personality, who remembers the last conversation the two of you had.
None of these is the assignment. The assignment is whatever you can picture. Build that.
🎁 What you get
Tavus and Lovable credits for every builder, so your team can build and publish during the event.
A special credits package from Lovable and Tavus for every winning team, on top of the cash.
Food and beverages throughout the day.
A content station on the floor. Our team shoots content of you and your build live during the event, then sends it to you the week after, ready to share.
On-call experts to unblock you the moment you get stuck.
SWAG :)
🎒 What to bring
A charged laptop
Headphones
Agenda
10:30 to 11:00 AM, Arrival and team forming. Grab food and a drink, meet other builders, and form squads of 2 to 5.
11:00 to 11:30 AM, The Spark. Welcome from ProductTank SF, a Tavus and PALmaker intro, and a live demo.
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM, The Build. Start building your PAL with PALmaker and Lovable. A PAL is something you talk to, so build for real back-and-forth, not a one-way loop.
12:30 to 1:00 PM, Fuel Up. Food and beverages provided.
1:00 to 3:45 PM, The Build Continues. Push to a working, deployed PAL.
3:45 to 4:30 PM, judging starts.
430 to 5 PM top 3 winners- Show and Tell and Prizes: two-minute demos of your published PALs, wrap-up, and winner announcements.
With thanks to our hosts
Tavus, the human computing company. We teach machines the art of being human, so talking to one can feel as natural as talking to a friend or coworker. PALmaker is where anyone builds a PAL, the whole thing, without writing a line of code. tavus.io
Lovable, rapid UI generation that lets your team build and publish a working app in a single session. lovable.dev
ProductTank SF, the community bringing product builders, thinkers, and operators together. https://www.linkedin.com/company/product-tank-san-francisco/
Register
Seats are limited to 100 and going fast. Register now and complete the short screening form to hold your spot.