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Tools 6 min read24 January 2026

The tool stack in the hackathon: Cursor, Lovable, n8n and more

There is no single tool. There is a handful of tools that together cover almost every task, and the choice depends on what needs to be built.

Lovable, applications and interfaces

For anything with a UI: internal tools, dashboards, forms. Teams describe what they need in plain language and iterate in the browser.

n8n, automation and chaining

When systems need to talk to each other: mail, CRM, databases, AI models. The glue between the prototypes.

Cursor and Claude Code, deeper in code

For engineering teams working in their own repository: refactoring, tests, code review support.

Custom GPTs and Gamma, knowledge and communication

Assistants built on the team's own documents, and quick, presentable output of results for the pitch.

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Participants at a Corporathon AI hackathon

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What decision-makers want to know before the first hackathon, kept short and to the point.

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