Voice AI Hackweek

Voice AI

Hackweek

We are inviting top developers
to build cool stuff using Voice AI

We are inviting top developers to build cool stuff using Voice AI


We are inviting top developers
to build cool stuff using Voice AI

Winner’s Prize

Winner’s Prize

Cash: Rs. 522,944.78
Cash: Rs. 522,944.78

Interview with YCombinator


$50,000 of AI compute


Access to Apple, AWS engineers

Interview with YCombinator

$50,000 of AI compute

Access to Apple, AWS engineers

Easy to use Voice Interfaces
will double Technology Adoption

Easy to use Voice Interfaces
will double Technology Adoption

Easy to use
Voice Interfaces will double Technology Adoption

Text-based interfaces (websites, app) have had limited adoption in emerging markets like Pakistan, meanwhile audio-video apps like Whatsapp and TikTok have very deep market adoption.

This is because text-interfaces are very hard to use for most people: First, typing in local languages is very hard; second, 42% of adults in Pakistan can't read.

Voice AI will make technology easy and convenient — for the first time. This will bring millions of new users on to digital services and presents an incredible opportunity to build the next generation of digital products that improve productivity and economy.

The goal of this hackweek is to identify developers that have the potential to build market disrupting Voice Products.

The winners gets:

  • Interview with YCombinator — the world's #1 startup accelerator
    Airbnb, Coinbase, Dropbox, Reddit, Twitch and many other unicorn startups started at YCombinator. Over 20,000 people apply to YCombinator every cycle, less than 1% get in. The winner on this hackweek gets to skip everything and directly interview with YCombinator.

  • $25,000 in Uplift AI Credits + $25,000 in cloud credits.
    That’s enough to cover your running costs while you focus on finding market fit and making customers happy.

  • One-one access to engineers from Apple, AWS and Google
    We will ensure you have direct access to the best engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders relevant to your business.

Top 5 teams will get access to $5000 of Uplift AI credits, $1000 of cloud credits, early access to unreleased Voice Technology, and direct access to Uplift AI team via slack and whatsapp.

Text-based interfaces (websites, app) have had limited adoption in emerging markets like Pakistan, meanwhile audio-video apps like Whatsapp and TikTok have very deep market adoption.

This is because text-interfaces are very hard to use for most people: First, typing in local languages is very hard; second, 42% of adults in Pakistan can't read.

Voice AI will make technology easy and convenient — for the first time. This will bring millions of new users on to digital services and presents an incredible opportunity to build the next generation of digital products that improve productivity and economy.

The goal of this hackweek is to identify developers that have the potential to build market disrupting Voice Products.

The winners gets:

  • Interview with YCombinator — the world's #1 startup accelerator
    Airbnb, Coinbase, Dropbox, Reddit, Twitch and many other unicorn startups started at YCombinator. Over 20,000 people apply to YCombinator every cycle, less than 1% get in. The winner on this hackweek gets to skip everything and directly interview with YCombinator.

  • $25,000 in Uplift AI Credits + $25,000 in cloud credits.
    That’s enough to cover your running costs while you focus on finding market fit and making customers happy.

  • One-one access to engineers from Apple, AWS and Google
    We will ensure you have direct access to the best engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders relevant to your business.

Top 5 teams will get access to $5000 of Uplift AI credits, $1000 of cloud credits, early access to unreleased Voice Technology, and direct access to Uplift AI team via slack and whatsapp.

Text-based interfaces (websites, app) have had limited adoption in emerging markets like Pakistan, meanwhile audio-video apps like Whatsapp and TikTok have very deep market adoption.

This is because text-interfaces are very hard to use for most people: First, typing in local languages is very hard; second, 42% of adults in Pakistan can't read.

Voice AI will make technology easy and convenient — for the first time. This will bring millions of new users on to digital services and presents an incredible opportunity to build the next generation of digital products that improve productivity and economy.

The goal of this hackweek is to identify developers that have the potential to build market disrupting Voice Products.

The winners gets:

  • Interview with YCombinator — the world's #1 startup accelerator
    Airbnb, Coinbase, Dropbox, Reddit, Twitch and many other unicorn startups started at YCombinator. Over 20,000 people apply to YCombinator every cycle, less than 1% get in. The winner on this hackweek gets to skip everything and directly interview with YCombinator.

  • $25,000 in Uplift AI Credits + $25,000 in cloud credits.
    That’s enough to cover your running costs while you focus on finding market fit and making customers happy.

  • One-one access to engineers from Apple, AWS and Google
    We will ensure you have direct access to the best engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders relevant to your business.

Top 5 teams will get access to $5000 of Uplift AI credits, $1000 of cloud credits, early access to unreleased Voice Technology, and direct access to Uplift AI team via slack and whatsapp.

Winner's Prize: Rs. 522,944.78
Winner's Prize: Rs. 522,944.78

Prize increases with number of participants

Prize increases with number of participants

Requests for Prototypes

Requests for Prototypes

Requests for Prototypes

Here are some ideas that we would like participants to tackle. You can also come in with an idea of your own.

Here are some ideas that we would like participants to tackle. You can also come in with an idea of your own.


Voice AI Lawyers for Family and Property Law

Every day tens of thousands of people need advice on basic family law and basic property law. Family and property law both are very well established and the vast majority of cases have no novelty – they just follow past precedent. 

This means that a well made AI system can accurately advise on most routine cases, making quality advice accessible to everyone — instantly and affordably.

It is also a very lucrative business, lawyers are very expensive and people in need of legal advice are willing to spend. If you succeed in Pakistan, you can replicate the same tech globally. Legal services is a $1 trillion industry globally.

An ideal team will have experience in both law and software engineering.

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Voice AI Tutors for at-home Primary Education.

There are about 32M kids in Pakistan in the primary school age group. About 25% of them are out-of-school (mostly because schools are too far or too expensive). Another 50% are going to school but have subpar teachers. 

Previously, to address this you would need to train 100s of thousands of teachers; and create 1000s of well managed schools.

But now, if we can make one amazing AI tutor, it can be given to every kid.

Primary education is a $0.8 trillion market globally. Your success in Pakistan can be replicated globally coz primary education is very similar around the world.

Parents stretch their budgets to ensure their kids get a good education. If you make a great product they will pay for it… they will even get new internet connections and buy new smartphones to use your product — if it is good enough.

Ideal teams will be great engineers with strong intuition on what makes engaging educational content.

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Voice AI Microfinance Applications and Customer Servicing

Traditional microfinance institutions spend 20-30% of their portfolio on mundane operational costs. There are inefficient human touch points at every stage – from loan application to monthly payments.  

This work can be streamlined with Voice AI powered Interfaces that remove the inefficient human touch points – increasing service quality and reducing costs.

Optimized microloan workflows mean lower operational cost for financial institutions, and lower APR for consumers. 

What is more existing is that lower operational cost, also make loans available to more people, currently there are only 10 million active borrowers in Pakistan and this number could go up to 50-80M. 

Big Banks are losing to FinTech around the world by simply improving the customer experience. State Bank of Pakistan policies are very favorable to FinTech startups – and the right founders can disrupt the microfinance vertical of big banks.

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An Actually Good Whatsapp Customer Service Platform for Small Businesses

Most commerce in Pakistan happens over whatsapp. From restaurant booking and electronic purchases, to car servicing and real-estate sales. There are 100s of tools out there to help businesses manage these conversations. But none are good.  

There is an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the experience using LLMs and Voice AI. We would love to see startups with a completely new take on whatsapp based customer service. 

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Other High Potential Areas 

  • Simplify FBR Tax Filing with Voice AI

  • Voice AI based skill education for blue collar workers

  • Voice AI Assisted Telehealth Health

  • Voice First Agriculture Mega App

  • NextGen Content Creation Experience

  • Voice Agents That Make and Answer Calls

  • Voice Agents for Logistics that communicate with Staff

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Questions? Answers!

Is this a week long hackathon?

Its basically 2 weekends. You will start on the first weekend and make your initial prototype, and then you refine it the second weekend. You are not expected to work on the hackathon during the week, but you can if you want.

When is the Hackweek? Dates?

Sometime in Oct. The date will be finalzied around Sept 15th.

Whats the scene with YCombinator Interview?

The winner gets to interview with YCombinator partners. This is a big deal.. so plan how seriously u take this hackweek accordingly. We are a YCombinator backed company... so we were able to make this arrangement for you.

Why is the price money changing?

The prize money will increase with the number of participants. The more the participants the bigger the total prize. So go encourage your friends to apply (but only the ones that are good programmers).

What is the location? Can I participate remotely?

In-person is more fun --the energy from others helps. So we will arrange locations in 5 cities for the hackweek. But... you can also participate remotely if you are not in any of these cities.

I can not code. Can I still participate? Vibe Code?

No we don't recommend it. Instead go find a good programer friend and participate with them.

What should be the team size?

Up to 4 people.

I have more questions

Email them to hackweek@upliftai.org

Questions? Answers!

Is this a week long hackathon?

Its basically 2 weekends. You will start on the first weekend and make your initial prototype, and then you refine it the second weekend. You are not expected to work on the hackathon during the week, but you can if you want.

When is the Hackweek? Dates?

Sometime in Oct. The date will be finalzied around Sept 15th.

Whats the scene with YCombinator Interview?

The winner gets to interview with YCombinator partners. This is a big deal.. so plan how seriously u take this hackweek accordingly. We are a YCombinator backed company... so we were able to make this arrangement for you.

Why is the price money changing?

The prize money will increase with the number of participants. The more the participants the bigger the total prize. So go encourage your friends to apply (but only the ones that are good programmers).

What is the location? Can I participate remotely?

In-person is more fun --the energy from others helps. So we will arrange locations in 5 cities for the hackweek. But... you can also participate remotely if you are not in any of these cities.

I can not code. Can I still participate? Vibe Code?

No we don't recommend it. Instead go find a good programer friend and participate with them.

What should be the team size?

Up to 4 people.

I have more questions

Email them to hackweek@upliftai.org

Questions? Answers!

Is this a week long hackathon?

Its basically 2 weekends. You will start on the first weekend and make your initial prototype, and then you refine it the second weekend. You are not expected to work on the hackathon during the week, but you can if you want.

When is the Hackweek? Dates?

Whats the scene with YCombinator Interview?

The winner gets to interview with YCombinator partners. This is a big deal.. so plan how seriously u take this hackweek accordingly. We are a YCombinator backed company... so we were able to make this arrangement for you.

Why is the price money changing?

What is the location? Can I participate remotely?

In-person is more fun --the energy from others helps. So we will arrange locations in 5 cities for the hackweek. But... you can also participate remotely if you are not in any of these cities.

I can not code. Can I still participate? Vibe Code?

What should be the team size?

I have more questions

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