You should meet Leah
Shipped the climate atlas your repo’s README cites - and needs a designer before Sunday’s demo.
AI matchmaking for hackathons
The room already knows who you should meet.
Attendees upload more than a bio - repos, portfolios, voice notes, project plans. Meetmap turns it into a shortlist of who each one should meet, with reasons.
The best introductions at your hackathon are usually invisible.
Hackathons are too short to rely on badges, directories, and Slack channels to figure out who you should meet. The right teammate, mentor, sponsor, or collaborator is often already there, but attendees need a faster way to find them.
How Meetmap works at your hackathon
Stage 1
Collect context
Attendees share more than a registration form: projects, skills, goals, and the kind of help they need.
- PDF resume-2026.pdf
- FIG climate-dashboard-v2.fig
- TXT github-carbon-explorer.txt
- PPTX pitch-deck-demo-day.pptx
- M4A field-notes-voice-memo.m4a
- MD side-project-readme.md
- PNG climate-tool-wireframe.png
napkin sketch of what I’m demoing Sunday - bottom section needs to show emissions across cities, but the colour scale is killing me because the values rang
Stage 2
Process, index, match
Meetmap processes each upload, indexes what people can offer or need, then makes matches across the room.
Stage 3
Give each attendee a shortlist
Each attendee gets a few introductions worth making, with a clear reason for each - not shared tags.
You should meet Priya
Priya rebuilt the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s climate atlas in 2022. Your wireframe reuses the exact heatmap legend pattern she rejected in that project for being unreadable below 720px.
Why this match works
- You’re both here hacking on public climate data.
- You said you’re stuck on the dashboard you’re demoing Sunday.
- Priya already solved the exact legend problem - twice.
Stage 4
Start with relevance
Meetmap drafts the opening message and lets attendees send it via email or WhatsApp - so the first message lands instead of starting with small talk.
Contact Priya
Meetmap matched us - quick hack q before Sunday
Write your message…
“Hi Priya - Meetmap matched us because of your atlas redesign. I’m hitting the same legend wall on what I’m demoing Sunday - got 10 min?”
What running Meetmap looks like
None during the event - we monitor and handle attendee questions.
Upload what they already have: repos, portfolios, notes, voice memos.
Shortlists land in attendee inboxes with a reason for each match.
Flexible for our first hackathon partners. Hands-on support included.
Meet the team
Max
Engineer
TypeScript engineer (React, Node, generative AI). Builds Meetmap's product and event tooling.
Oliver
Researcher
Dropped out of a deep learning masters at the University of Melbourne to work in industry. Stints at AlphaBeta and Accenture; cited in peer-reviewed publications.