ElevenHacks, Cursor push voice-only challenge
ElevenLabs’ eighth weekly hackathon asks builders to use Cursor and ElevenLabs voice APIs to create something fully operable without a keyboard. The contest is live now, with cash prizes, social-post scoring, and a free month of ElevenLabs Creator for participants.
This is a good prompt because it forces real interaction design, not just another voice wrapper demo. It also shows where the market is headed: coding tools plus voice APIs are becoming a practical stack for hands-free software.
- –The “no keyboard” constraint should surface genuinely useful accessibility and ambient-computing ideas, not just gimmicks
- –Cursor handles the build side; ElevenLabs handles input/output, which makes it easy to prototype voice-native workflows quickly
- –The best submissions will probably be utilities people can actually use daily, not one-off demo toys
- –Social-video scoring will bias entries toward polished, visually clear demos, which is smart for distribution but may favor presentation over depth
- –The challenge is also a strong marketing play for both brands, because it showcases a combined workflow rather than a single feature
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2026-05-07
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