Developer events program · Yuqi Hou case study

YUQI HOU

developer events programhackathons, builder nights and one black-tie yacht: turning a GPU cloud into somewhere builders want to show up.A new AI cloud has no community and no reason for developers to try it. Ads don’t fix that. Rooms full of the right people do.

Launched with Signal ’26: a launch day plus a studio hackathon.

Ran a steady drumbeat: 20 events in Q1 alone, across hackathons, builder nights, founder mixers, livestreams and conference side events (GTC, SXSW, ICML).

Built a partner-driven GTM motion with NVIDIA, AI model providers and dev-tool partners, and co-hosted with rooms builders already trust (Notion, Google, WorkOS, AngelList, AGI House, The AI Collective).

Owned coding-agent partnerships (Hermes Agent by Nous Research, Kilo Code, OpenCode, Cursor), coordinating engineering, product and outside maintainers on integrations and activation events.

64 events hosted in 2026 (and counting)

10K+ monthly active developers

3× Discord growth in 3 months (450 → 1,300)

Hackathons averaged 100+ builders and 30+ shipped projects. Highlights: 1,870 registered for the YC AI Startup School yacht gala; 711 wanted into The Model Question at Notion; 4 of the top 5 Glow Up hackathon projects were built on GMI.