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slug: vector-space-hackathon-winners-2025
short_description: "Discover the winners of Qdrant’s global Think Outside the Bot hackathon, where developers built innovative vector search applications beyond chatbots — from robotics to gaming, e-commerce, and more."
preview_image: /blog/vector-space-hack-2025/hackathon-hero.jpg
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date: 2025-09-29
author: Qdrant
featured: true
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- blog
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![Hackathon Hero](blog/vector-space-hackathon-2025/hackathon-hero.jpg)
# *Thinking Outside the Bot* with 2025 Hackathon Winners
Over the past several weeks, builders from around the world proved that vector search is about much more than chatbots. We challenged teams to think beyond RAG, and they delivered: robotics safety reflexes, event discovery on routes, 3D shopping, video game characters, and more.
@@ -36,7 +34,14 @@ Let’s dive into the top projects and what we liked about each of them.
**Bonus Prize: Best use of Neo4j**
**Total Prize: $5000 USD + $1000 Neo4j Credits**
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<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZyAM6TPmmKM?si=tqZsVjJYjzRRdJI2&rel=0"
title="YouTube video player"
frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
**What it is:** A 3D product exploration experience that turns e-commerce discovery into an explorable world. Categories become mountains; subcategories become hills; terrain height reflects result counts; and an LLM “guide” (Q-Bert) leads a curated tour.
@@ -64,7 +69,14 @@ Repo: [Vector Vintage](https://github.com/kanungle/vector-vintage-public)
**Total Prize: $2000 USD**
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Wj7fuBs1HS0&si=IqE4NPuWc-x1KZtn&rel=0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lELdPxdO10Y?si=AbvbJf1xauB5WYgG&rel=0"
title="YouTube video player"
frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
**What it is:** Non-Playable Characters (NPCs) that *remember* places, events, and interactions using spatio-temporal memory, so behavior evolves naturally instead of being scripted.
@@ -88,7 +100,14 @@ Repo: [Vector Vintage](https://github.com/kanungle/vector-vintage-public)
**Total Prize: 1 Year of CrewAI Enterprise**
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LR4ojcDxOXo&si=XiyUDkuctw60oAqE&rel=0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LR4ojcDxOXo?si=XiyUDkuctw60oAqE&rel=0"
title="YouTube video player"
frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
A **route-aware event discovery** platform. Enter a route \+ time window, and ReMap finds relevant events using **hybrid semantic search** plus **geospatial/temporal filters**, visualized on OpenStreetMap. Synthetic data today, real ingestion planned.
@@ -100,7 +119,14 @@ A **route-aware event discovery** platform. Enter a route \+ time window, and Re
**Total Prize: $3000 of Mistral AI Credits**
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MLXmNpJ4MF0&si=VMUoGgdG2G4mtwtN&rel=0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MLXmNpJ4MF0?si=VMUoGgdG2G4mtwtN&rel=0"
title="YouTube video player"
frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
A playful **personality-driven social platform**: take a quiz, get matched to a “home planet,” and find **cosmic twinmates** via vector similarity. Built with Qdrant \+ Mistral AI \+ React Three Fiber, with global and per-planet chat.
@@ -112,7 +138,14 @@ A playful **personality-driven social platform**: take a quiz, get matched to a
**Total Prize: $1000 USD**
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rPdeiVc8maE&si=J3zdgbTnkm0kX5fm&rel=0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rPdeiVc8maE?si=J3zdgbTnkm0kX5fm&rel=0"
title="YouTube video player"
frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
(Note: Music is removed from above video due to copyright reasons — use your imagination a bit\!)
@@ -126,7 +159,14 @@ An **AI choreographer** that generates personalized Bachata sequences by matchin
**Total Prize: $1000 in TwelveLabs Credits**
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-EywTyyU50&si=JZJ9PQnsJteBd8nU&rel=0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v-EywTyyU50?si=JZJ9PQnsJteBd8nU&rel=0"
title="YouTube video player"
frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
A **multi-modal classroom assistant** that captures **speech, video, slides, images, and documents** together into a searchable knowledge memory. Uses TwelveLabs embeddings \+ Qdrant retrieval for linked, contextual recall.
@@ -136,7 +176,14 @@ A **multi-modal classroom assistant** that captures **speech, video, slides, ima
## 🙌 Honorable Mentions
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<iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/REEx1Jd_Qe4?si=K-SDe9WyLK1NSTY8&rel=0"
title="YouTube video player"
frameborder="0"
allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share"
referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
allowfullscreen>
</iframe>
* **Quant Memory Palace** (*The Mondays*)
A **3D knowledge universe** for documents. Semantic clusters you can fly through with real-time previews and search.