I posted a question on X: shall we host an online hackathon together, building only with Composer 2.5? The answer was yes. That thread became Try It Out, a global session with one constraint and one goal: ship something real in four hours.
The setup
We built tryitout.io as the home for the event. Cursor featured the hackathon on their site. Ten ambassador hosts worldwide kept rooms open across time zones.
The rules were deliberate:
- Composer 2.5 only. One tool, so comparisons stayed honest.
- Four hours. Long enough to finish, short enough to focus.
- No pitch decks. Demos at the end, not slides at the start.
The numbers
By the time we wrapped:
- 42 projects submitted
- 12 countries represented
- 1,621 views on the recap thread
- Mediah shipped live during the session
What I learned
Online adoption works when you lower the ceremony and raise the bar for output. People did not need another webinar. They needed a start time, a channel, and permission to try the tool on something they cared about.
The hosts mattered as much as the platform. Each room had someone who could unblock, translate Cursor workflows, and keep momentum when someone hit a wall.
Read the original
This article is a native copy of my X Article. For replies, quotes, and the live thread, read it on X. For the hackathon landing page Cursor featured, see cursor.com/lp-team/composer-25-hackathon.