Unleash Your Innovation: Shape the Future of Skincare and eCommerce.
Calling all builders, creators, and visionaries: it’s time to completely reimagine the way we shop. The YouCam API Skin AI & eCommerce VTO Hackathon is your launchpad.
We’re unlocking our most advanced, market-tested AI and AR infrastructure just for you. It's time to build the real-world, scalable products, including cutting-edge Agentic AI workflows.
We’re challenging you to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Seamlessly integrate YouCam APIs into your wildest ideas, whether that means engineering a self-learning styling assistant, a hyper-personalized skin analysis tool, or an entirely new solution to everyday consumer pain points.
Bring your boldest concepts to the table, and we’ll back your vision with serious prize money. Are you up for the challenge?
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About the challenge
All solutions must integrate at least one [YouCam API] into a functional web or mobile prototype that delivers clear consumer value. We want fresh, unexpected solutions to real-world pain points in beauty, fashion, or eCommerce—not surface-level wrappers. You can even take it a step further by building scalable products that include cutting-edge Agentic AI workflows.
Pick the topic that best fits your vision and submit:
Skin AI:
People don't wonder about their skin in the abstract; they wonder right before a purchase, right after a bad breakout, or right when they're standing in front of a mirror deciding whether a product is working. Build something that meets that moment. Use YouCam's Skin AI, alone or combined with other YouCam APIs, to help users understand their skin and know exactly what to do next.
eCommerce VTO:
Beauty and fashion decisions rarely happen in isolation; what someone wears and how their looks are part of the same self-image. Build something that brings Virtual Try-On together into one seamless, intuitive experience. We want to see what's possible when both capabilities work as one to reimagine the way we shop.
Why Join
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Build with YouCam API. Access AI Skin Analysis and generative Apparel Virtual Try-On, the same models powering 800+ global beauty and fashion brands, on a standard REST API that drops into any stack.
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Get free API units to build, deploy, and demo. Every registered participant receives 1,000 free API units just for signing up.
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Win cash, API credits, and real visibility.
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Share & Earn Bonus: Share your hackathon project online and earn bonus API units!
Get started
- Register on Devpost. Get your exclusive redeem code by email (2 minutes)
- Sign up for YouCam API. Click here to sign up and verify your email. (2 minutes)
- Claim Your Free 1,000 YouCam API Units. Click here and go to Account > Redeem Code > Enter the redeem code (3 minutes)
- 1,000 API Units will be added to your account immediately.
Requirements
What to Build
Like our previous hackathon, your challenge is to integrate at least one YouCam API into a functional web or mobile prototype that delivers clear consumer or retail value. (For India region, please click HERE)
We want fresh, unexpected solutions to real-world pain points in beauty, fashion, or eCommerce, not surface-level wrappers. The experience must be intuitive enough that a first-time user instantly grasps its value.
Whether it’s a brand-new build or a major upgrade to an existing project, show us real impact beyond a simple API call!
What to Submit
- Provide a URL to your code repository for judging and testing. The repository must contain all necessary source code, assets, and instructions required for the project to be functional. The repository must be either public (with relevant licensing) or private and shared with [email protected].
- Include a text description that should explain the features, functionality and demonstrate clear consumer or retail value of your Project.
- Must include screenshots of the project.
- Include a 1-3-minute Demo video showing the experience end-to-end
- Judges are not required to watch beyond three minutes
- should explain the YouCam API used in the submission
- should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the device for which it was built
- must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube (highly preferred), Vimeo, or Youku, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Hackathon Website; and
- must not include third party trademarks, or copyrighted music or other material unless the Entrant has permission to use such material.
- Must participate in an exit interview if chosen as winner
- Must agree to be included in a blog article
Prizes
1st Place
Feature Blog
Product/Developer Marketing Meeting
2nd Place
Feature Blog
Product/Developer Marketing Meeting
3rd place
Feature Blog
Product/Developer Marketing Meeting
Women in Tech Special Award
Rising Star Award (Student Only)
Judges
Wendy Yen
Judging Criteria
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Technological Implementation:
How thoroughly and skillfully does the project integrate at least one YouCam API? Does the project demonstrate clear consumer or retail value? Does the code reflect genuine effort and a working, non-trivial implementation? -
Design
Does the project deliver a complete, coherent product experience — not just a technical proof of concept? -
Potential Impact
Does the project make a credible, specific case for solving a real problem for a real audience — and does the solution actually address that problem based on what's demonstrated? -
Quality of Idea
Is this a creative, non-obvious use of at least one YouCam API — and does the team demonstrate genuine understanding of the problem space they're working in?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager