PayPal AI Hackathon

What to Build

Build or update an application that integrates the PayPal developer platform (using the free sandbox environment) along with an AI tool, model, or platform of your choice.

You may also use one of our sponsors' tools: 

• AG Grid
• APIMatic
• Astropods
• Bryntum
• Channel3
• Elastic
• KERNEL
• Postman
• Render
• Zapier

Note: PayPal will provide access to select AI sponsor tools that you are welcome to use, though using one of these partner tools is not required. Any AI tool works, as long as PayPal integration is central to the project.

Your project should:

• Meaningfully integrate at least one PayPal technology, API, SDK, product, or developer capability
• Meaningfully incorporate AI into the experience or functionality
• Demonstrate a working prototype or proof of concept
• Be sufficiently documented for the judges to understand and evaluate it
• Comply with the Official Rules

Projects can be built individually or as a team. They can be new or existing projects, as long as you make meaningful progress on the project during the course of the hackathon.

What to Submit

• Project- built with the required developer tools and meeting the Project Requirements above.

• Text description - explain your project's features and functionality.

• Functional demo - judges must be able to actually run or interact with a working build. Satisfy this with either:

• Clear, complete setup and run instructions in your code repository, so judges can build and run it themselves, or

• A hosted demo URL.

• A design mockup, static prototype, or non-functional demo does not meet this requirement.

• Tools - identify which tools (model or AI service) were used and explain how the tools were used in your project.

• Public code repository on GitHub, Gitlab or Bitbucket.

• Must contain all source code, assets, and instructions needed to run the project.

• Must be public and open source, with a license file visible at the top of the repo (in the About section).

• Demo video

• Under 3 minutes (judges aren't required to watch past that).

• Must show the project functioning on the device it was built for.

• Must be uploaded to YouTube, publicly visible, with the link on the submission form.

• Must not include third-party trademarks or copyrighted music/material without permission.