Ryan Hammer, Apple Valley, California
Every build on this page is a working product that was entered into a hackathon and judged by the company that makes the tools. Won or not, each one is public proof that the thing got built.
What a hackathon is: a timed contest where companies like Google, Meta and NVIDIA give builders a deadline, usually days, and judge working products.
Judged by the sponsor. Results as published by each organizer.
"Art by a Human, Business by AI." A one man art business in the high desert. I make the art. AI agents read the photos, write the listings, configure shipping, publish, and sell. Real buyers, verified payouts.
A non-custodial multi-chain DEX with its own AI trading agents. Entered in the Turing Test Hackathon 2026 on Mantle and took a win.
Newest first. "In judging" means the organizer has not announced results yet. Build times are from the commit history.
For cyclists stranded at night. Point your phone at the bike, say what happened, and three Meta models outline the part, hear you out, and walk you through the fix. If it can't be fixed there, it gets you somewhere safe or texts your people.
Sit down in a late night listening room for Meta Quest. A radio host who remembers you picks the records, and you put them on with your own hands. My own catalog, no controllers.
Two AI agents argue bull against bear from identical evidence, a judge rules, a deterministic risk gate sizes the trade, and the whole decision is attested on Solana in the same transaction as the trade. Every receipt replays and verifies.
A virtual cutting room. NVIDIA Nemotron agents watch your footage, commit to a cut, build a real Shotcut timeline over MCP, screen it, fix it, and hand you the pickup list for tomorrow's shoot.
A DIT in your NAS. Turns a shoot day of offloaded footage into a verified dailies report with backup checksums, clip specs, slate transcripts and problem flags. Footage never leaves the building.
Photos in, money out. An agent crew that sees your stuff, prices it honestly, lists it on a storefront, and closes the sale through PayPal. A human approves every listing.
Photos of donated items in, an honest priced printable sale catalog out. An intake agent for thrift shops, library book sales and rummage sales, built on AWS Strands Agents.
A research paper and public notebook. Small Gemma coding agents get about 30 tool calls to fix a real issue, and the first decision is which file to open. I built a benchmark for that decision and a 12-line script that gets it right 74% of the time, up from 44%.
Three entries in progress. Links appear when they are submitted.
The products and infrastructure that run every day. Full lists live on the two sites below.
Ryan Hammer, known as NoBanks Nearby. Professional cinematographer and post production since 2008, for brands including Samsung, the NBA, National Geographic, Red Bull, Southwest and CNN. Creative partner with the AI video labs Runway and Hailuo. Musician with 600+ released tracks.
Taught himself to code in July 2024. Since then: a growing portfolio of consumer and enterprise AI products, a 100,000+ piece on-chain art catalog, and the builds on this page, each one shipped solo in days, with AI agents as collaborators.
If you want something built, the fastest way to see how I work is to open any card above.
