PICO SPACE
PROGRAM
400 developers. 3 weeks. One destination: San Jose Spacestation.
Time for liftoff · Sept 21
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400 developers. 3 weeks. One destination: San Jose Spacestation.
A hackathon lasts 48 hours and is forgotten. This is a 3-week journey where developers learn PICO OS, ship every week, and the whole internet watches who survives.
Every stop requires a landing. Landing means shipping working code and a progress video.
Liftoff. The accelerator ignites on Discord.
First landing. Ship or die.
Deep space. Ship again or die.
Codebase lock and quality audit. Graduates get the crate.
Top 20 fly in. Live pitches, live votes, champions crowned.
Miss a single landing and you're lost in space. Publicly, permanently, with no path back in. The stakes are the story.
Every reward is reserved on day one, with their name on it. Each landing unlocks the next layer.
AI sandbox credit. The hoodie crate is reserved, not shipped.
$50 gift card plus $150 compute credits.
$200 meal fuel plus $300 deep-build compute.
The PICONAUT hoodie finally ships. Top 20 add a $2,000 flight to San Jose.
Native spatial apps in Kotlin with the new PICO Spatial SDK. Declarative UI, Android Studio plugin, PICO Emulator.
React and HTML running spatially on PICO OS. The web stack they already know.
1st place, plus $7.5K for 2nd.
1st place, plus $7.5K for 2nd.
Horizon Cadet, Commander's Flight, Sonic Vibe Coding, Galaxy Consensus.
Winners also get front-page placement on the VibeLab store and Swan early access.
One photo in, two avatars out. 400 Piconauts spreading across X and Discord is the marketing campaign.
One photo
Portrait avatar
Working avatar
Real output, generated from a real photo.
Sharing is not optional. To advance past any planet, every team submits two links: their progress video posted on X and on LinkedIn. 400 developers means hundreds of branded posts, every single week.
Mandatory X and LinkedIn video posts, verified by the platform before a landing counts.
Commit sprees are tracked live and auto-drafted into highlight posts.
Who shipped, who survived, who died. Elimination recaps write themselves.
400 Piconaut avatars on X and Discord profiles, all pointing back to PICO.
Discord hosts the community. Mission Control hosts everything official.
Mission Control is also the admin console. Every participant, every team, every submission and the whole elimination funnel, live on one screen.
Roster, teams, submissions, judging, votes, rewards and eliminations. One click to execute a checkpoint, every action audited.
Mission Control runs a Discord bot that tags every team for daily check-ins, chases silent repos, and counts down every deadline in public.
Good morning @Team Vega. Day 6 in orbit. What are you shipping today?
Hand tracking demo working in the emulator. Recording the progress video tonight 🚀
🔥 @Team Vega pushed 47 commits in 24 hours. Commit spree logged.
T-24 HOURS TO LUNA. 43 teams have not submitted. The airlock closes at 23:59 tomorrow. Ship or die.
Daily check-ins build streaks. Silent repos get nudged, privately first, then publicly. Judges see it all.
Dozens of production-ready spatial apps landing in the VibeLab store.
400 developers trained on PICO OS and invested in the platform.
A month of survival drama, highlights and Piconaut avatars across social feeds.
A first-party database of 400 vetted XR developers: emails, profiles, socials, GitHub activity and every app built.
A repeatable show. Season 2 launches with a proven platform and playbook.
The concept, the platform and the timeline are drafted. Liftoff Sept 21.