1,158 people registered. you're not one of them. explain.
Builder Base Newsletter — LAST DAY. May 19, 2026.
no intro. no warmup.
1,158 people registered for QuantCraft.
one thousand. one hundred. fifty eight.
and you’re reading a newsletter about it instead of having already done it.
i genuinely need you to sit with that for a second.
this is not a drill. this is the last email you’re getting.
registration closes TONIGHT. May 20. midnight.
after that — the form disappears. the spots are gone. the ₹35,000 in prizes gets split among people who clicked a button while you were “considering.”
i will not send another email about this.
this is it.
1,158 people figured it out. what do they know that you don’t?
they know that QuantCraft is a 24-hour offline hackathon at Galgotias University on May 25–26 with ₹35,000+ in real cash prizes — organized by Builder Base alongside Team Nexido and Quanta Club.
they know the prize pool is:
🥇 ₹15,000 — 1st place (Trae Apex)
🥈 ₹10,000 — 2nd place (Trae Vanguard)
🥉 ₹5,000 — 3rd place (Trae Relic)
🏆 ₹5,000 — DomAIyn Track Winner
🎁 goodies + certificate — every finalist
📜 certificate — every single participant
they know TRAE AI session is may 22 — exclusive, only for registered participants. invite codes. live demos. hands-on support. you can’t buy your way into this after today.
they know.
and now you know. so what’s your excuse?
the tracks. one of these has your name on it.
🤖 AI/ML — NLP, computer vision, GenAI, recommendation systems, automation. if it thinks, ship it.
⛓️ Blockchain — DeFi, smart contracts, decentralized identity, Web3 tooling. our lane. our mentors. our home turf.
🔐 Cybersecurity — phishing detection, intrusion systems, privacy tools. lowest competition. highest signal. most slept on track at every hackathon. win here.
🎮 Game Dev — yes this counts. yes people win real money. yes you should enter if this is your thing.
💡 Open Innovation — no constraints. your idea. you own the narrative.
✨ DomAIyn Sponsor Track — red-teaming frameworks for LLMs. AI safety eval platforms. adversarial testing systems. ₹40LPA job description. built in 24 hours. ₹5,000 extra on top. this is a cheat code and most people will sleep on it.
✨ Duality Sponsor Track — problem statements are live. check the unstop page.
let me do the math that nobody else will do for you.
1,158 registered. not all will submit a PPT. not all who submit will get shortlisted. the finalist pool is small.
you know what that means?
a genuinely decent project almost guarantees you’re in the room for finals.
this isn’t IIT Bombay Techfest with 8,000 teams. this is a focused national hackathon with a real prize pool and a shortlist process where originality matters more than brand name.
you could walk out of galgotias university on may 26 with ₹15,000 in your account.
that’s rent. that’s your next side project funded. that’s the “i actually shipped something” story you’ve been waiting to tell.
or you could not register and watch someone else tell that story.
the people who never “get opportunities” are the same people who didn’t click the button.
every single time.
i’ve seen it. the builder who spends 6 months on twitter complaining about the ecosystem never showing up — skipping every hackathon, every event, every “i’ll do the next one.” then watching from the outside as someone else gets the grant, the partnership, the win.
this community exists so you don’t have to fight alone. we literally organized this for you.
the room. the mentors. the prize pool. the sponsors. the network.
all of it. for you. closes tonight.
the only things stopping you right now are fake.
“i don’t have a team” — join the official WhatsApp group: chat.whatsapp.com/BKyxwSmsiHR4Qmnxr6P5SL — post that you need teammates. this is what it’s for. someone is in the same situation as you right now.
“i don’t know what to build” — pick a track. open the problem statement. write 3 bullet points. that’s your PPT. you have until midnight.
“i’m not ready” — 1,158 people registered and i promise you they’re not all ready either. they registered anyway. that’s the difference.
“it’s too late to prepare” — it is never too late to submit a PPT with a decent idea. judges at this stage are screening for potential, not perfection.
“i’ll do the next one” — you said that last time too.
what you need to do in the next 7 minutes.
① register on unstop RIGHT NOW: → unstop.com/hackathons/quantcraft-galgotias-university-gu-greater-noida-1684046
② every team member fills the mandatory form individually: → forms.gle/JoGCZAbKQSsTyaSU7 (skip this = team verification fails. don’t skip this.)
③ join the participant WhatsApp group: → chat.whatsapp.com/BKyxwSmsiHR4Qmnxr6P5SL
④ submit your PPT before may 20, 11:59 PM IST use the official template (download link on unstop page). keep it clean: problem → solution → tech stack → impact → scalability. under 10 slides. done.
⑤ show up may 25, 9am, galgotias university. build for 24 hours.
seven minutes. that’s all it takes to be on the right side of tonight’s deadline.
i’m going to be real with you.
when i started builder base, i told myself i was building it so india’s builders would never miss an opportunity because they didn’t know about it.
that’s not the problem anymore.
you know about this. it’s in your inbox. you’ve probably known for days.
the problem now is the gap between knowing and doing.
that gap is the only thing between you and being in a room full of your people, on may 25, building something real, with ₹35,000 on the table and builder base in your corner.
close the gap. register tonight.
what link
📝 REGISTER click here — closes TONIGHT
📋 mandatory team form forms.gle/JoGCZAbKQSsTyaSU7
💬 participant whatsapp join the group
🌐 official site quantcraft.nexido.in
⏰ deadline MAY 20 — TONIGHT — 11:59 PM IST
📍 venue Galgotias University, Greater Noida
🏆 prize pool ₹35,000+
1,158 people are already in.
be 1,159.
👉 register now — closes tonight
forward this to one person. right now. before you close this tab. the one who always says they want to do a hackathon. send it.
— Builder Base | founder@builderbase.xyz | @theBuilder_base