// Escape Velocity

Yard #1

doneOpen model

No accounts.

The first Yard, live on the calendar: August 28-30, kicking off at 18:00 UTC. The theme is the hard line: build something genuinely useful that needs zero sign-up, zero login, zero email. Bring any AI model you want; that part's open. One weekend, 48 hours, solo. Capped at 50 builders. No teams, no gatekeepers, no pitch decks.

Submissions

mikekovetsky's project screenshot

A free Chrome extension that drafts your X posts and replies in your own voice, using Gemini Nano, the AI model built into Chrome. No account, no server, no API key. Nothing leaves the browser.

marlandoj's project screenshot

Paste any public GitHub repo or PR URL, get a ~60s narrated explainer video. No account, no email — just a shareable link and an MP4. RepoReel reads the code, writes a six-scene script, voices it with a local neural TTS, and renders real motion graphics — typography, stats, file-tree visuals — in about 90 seconds. Built for this Yard: every submission here needs a demo video, so I built the tool that makes them. This description is shorter than the video it took to explain itself.

headzoo's project screenshot

Toastboard is a wedding guestbook for the reception. Hosts create a board for the couple, print themed QR table signs, and put a live wall on a screen. Guests scan, leave a toast or photo, and it shows up in real time — with a fullscreen slideshow and host tools to hide a toast or restyle the signs. Try it live: https://toastboard.web.app/

Receipts
chukaufo's project screenshot

Xchange converts currencies instantly, no sign-up, no login, no accounts. Enter an amount, pick two currencies, get a live rate, quick-select pairs, both-direction rates, and a copy button. Each conversion includes a short insight note on the pair (major vs minor, rate size, amount sensitivity). It is a local rule-based heuristic, not a live model call, since a static site has nowhere safe to hold a real API key.

Battle Buddy is a local voice prosthetic for veterans in long game sessions. Speak a reminder. It holds the line on your disk, then FIREs. SCAN captures the running game with no Steam key. First sight of a new title files three public wikis. ASK answers from those pages, or misses. No accounts. No cloud. No Google. Built with Grok Bot and Cursor. Oorah.

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jabergan's project screenshot

VoiceEstimate — speak your job, get a professional PDF estimate in minutes. Built for contractors in the field who don't have time to type. Record your voice, AI parses every line item, download or email the PDF before leaving the driveway. No account. No login. Runs on Whisper (speech-to-text) + Qwen3 8B (local LLM) + ReportLab. Model: Qwen3 8B

maxbzhai's project screenshot

An anonymous drawing-memory game: see a drawing once, redraw it from memory, pass it on, and watch the story travel around the world.

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toddkedwards's project screenshot

Dropframe turns raw app screenshots into a finished, on-brand App Store set, entirely in your browser. Drop your shots and it frames them, reads your app's own colors to auto-theme the whole set, adds headlines, and exports at real App Store sizes. The hard line: no sign up, no login, no email. Nothing you drop ever leaves your device. Built with Claude Opus 4.8 in Claude Code as a single self-contained HTML file, zero backend.

firstdeployai's project screenshot

CATCHER — paste the missed call. Get the text to send back. A shop pastes a voicemail or sticky note. CATCHER returns what they want, the SMS (copy), the callback opener, and a same-day HVAC/plumbing ballpark. Tax will not invent a price. No account. No login. No email. One HTML file in the browser. Live: https://hackyard-catcher.netlify.app

Section8Mentor is a platform for Section 8 real estate investing with four parts: a learning curriculum, financing comparison tools, a marketplace of "toxic" deals to fix, and four AI agents (guide, financing advisor, deal analyst, problem solver) you can chat with. The agents run on Base44's built-in LLM integration; Base 1, Base44's in-house AI

threadm-ind's project screenshot

No accounts is the whole product. Last Word is a note that exists exactly once: write it, share a link, and the first person to open it deletes it in the same instant, mid-request, atomically. Twenty simultaneous readers, one winner. AES-GCM in your browser; the key lives only in the link fragment, which never reaches a server. No sign-up, no email, no logs, no analytics. The server holds ciphertext and a timestamp, nothing else. Even we couldn’t have read it. Built solo in the 48 hours.

“Masak apa?” means “What are you cooking?” in Malay, a question Malaysians ask every day. Malaysian food is how I explain where I’m from. Masak Apa? takes what’s in your kitchen and shows you what you can cook tonight: 50 Malaysian dishes, so you discover a new cuisine and new ingredients along the way. No account, upload, email, or server. Nothing leaves your browser. Every recipe links to its creator.

oakbearstudios's project screenshot

Field Notes Crosswords is a crossword puzzle game that uses the chrome Prompt API to build puzzles. The classic charm of a newspaper puzzle, endlessly reinvented. Press the pen and let the Chrome on-device AI instantly build a beautifully interlocked grid just for you.

zahid4kh's project screenshot

VibeVids is an agentic editor for vertical short-form video (Shorts, TikTok, Reels). No timeline, nothing to drag: you upload a clip and describe the edit in chat - "cut the first 3s", "2× the whole thing", "add 'WAIT FOR IT' at the top" - and a Gemini agent (gemini-3.5-flash-lite) calls editing tools to do it. The preview updates instantly; export renders the MP4 right in your browser with ffmpeg.wasm. Your video never leaves your machine - the model only sees the edit list, never the footage

ajhcs's project screenshot

USHSO (United States Health Systems Observatory) is a free discovery and routing tool for people and AI agents. It helps users find authoritative U.S. health-system datasets, understand what they contain, assess access rules and possible joins, and reach the original source.

// The lineup

Who's building

Timeline

  1. KickoffFri, Aug 28 · 18:00 UTC
  2. Ship deadlineSun, Aug 30 · 18:00 UTC
  3. Voting closesWed, Sep 2 · 18:00 UTC

18:00 UTC in your time zone

11:00 AM PDT · 2:00 PM EDT · 7:00 PM BST · 8:00 PM CEST · 11:30 PM IST · 3:00 AM Sat JST · 4:00 AM Sat AEST

Rules

Theme: No accounts — no sign-up, no login, no email to use it. Bring any AI model you like. It's open. Capped at 50 builders. Solo builders only. All code written during the 48 hours. Open-source your repo. Ship a demo video. That's it.

// The reward

What you win

Visibility

Winners get featured on the home page. The whole yard sees your work.

Badges

Champion, Top 3, and Shipped badges live on your profile forever.

Featured writeup

We publish a writeup on the winning build, what it is, how it works.

The big one · 1-year sponsorship

Backed by Hackyard, for a full year.

The win doesn't fade after a week. For 365 days Hackyard puts its platform behind you: pinned to the home page, boosted on our X, first dibs on every future Yard, and a permanent Champion badge. We grow, you grow.