A Hackathon That Became Something More

From March 6 to 8, 2026, we ran the first-ever Manila edition of Developer Camp at The Astbury in Makati. Over three days, 300+ people—builders, mentors, sponsors, and partners—spent the weekend together, with participants and mentors flying in from Portugal, China, Korea, and the United States.

Developer Camp has been running for 19 years, but this edition was undoubtedly one of the best we’ve ever produced. The depth of the builders who showed up and what they made together in 72 hours left us genuinely honored to have been in the room. A few things made this weekend unique:

It was our first time hosting in the Philippines. A deliberate choice, anchored by event producers Paula Rosales (Developer Camp Board Member) and Giselle Tomimbang-Mercado, the under-recognized talent of the Filipino tech community, and the incredible partners who made it possible to land well.
The highest participant engagement rate in our 19-year history. 300+ participants submitted 53+ projects, which is the densest project-to-participant ratio we’ve ever produced. This means people who came in as individuals found their teams, and the teams that formed actually shipped.
The first edition built around our four Focus Tracks: Future of Work, Climate & Regeneration, Health & Human Potential, and Collective Prosperity. Instead of “build anything,” teams chose a real problem and a real community to build for.
The first edition built around “Relational Technology,” the frame we introduced in Manila that asks not just what we build with AI, but how what we build reshapes the relationships around it: to ourselves, to each other, to our work, to our communities, and to the more-than-human world.

Experience the Magic: Watch the Video Recap

The weekend landed harder than anyone expected. Sixteen projects advanced to the finals, seven won prizes, and one individual earned the Grand Champion award for the way he showed up for everyone around him. In the weeks since, the City of Makati has expressed interest in making Developer Camp a permanently installed community, The Astbury has agreed to serve as its local home, and multiple funders and community partners are stepping forward to back the work that emerged. None of that was on the table when we flew into Makati in early March; it’s what this cohort made possible.

“[I learned] building with AI is not one-sided—it’s a partnership where human creativity and decision-making work hand in hand with AI capabilities. This perspective completely changed how I approach problem-solving and project design.” — France Khalil Romero, Commutenity

This post is a celebration of all we did together: who participated, what they built, who was honored among their peers by making it to the finals and taking home top honors, who made the event possible, and what’s coming next.

🎥 Watch the recap video. Experience the full weekend in a few minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSBsd3knD5c

By the Numbers:

300+ attendees over three days: 200+ participants, plus 100+ partners, sponsors, and mentors
53 projects submitted, a record ratio of projects-to-participants for the program
16 finalist teams advanced to the finals stage
7 winning teams across top prizes and each of the four Focus Tracks
$5,000 in total prize money distributed, plus ongoing global mentorship for every winner
Strong international draw, with participants and mentors flew in from Portugal, China, Korea, and the United States
Net Promoter Score of 80 among post-event survey respondents, a result typically associated with established world-class brands
100% of survey respondents said they would attend another Developer Camp
98% named a concrete takeaway, most commonly: new professional connections, new skills, and a project they want to keep building
76% are still working on their projects post-event

(Survey stats drawn from 50 deduplicated post-event responses — roughly 29% of the attendee survey base.)

The Winners

Eight teams took home prizes. Each winning team also receives continued mentorship and support from Developer Camp’s global network.

🥇 Best Overall — Roundtable · $2,000

Team members: Angelica Casuela, Lenz Dagohoy

Roundtable is a real-time intelligence platform for public policy work. It ingests meeting transcripts and documents and turns them into an interactive, explorable map of stakeholders, positions, and legislative context so that a policy team can understand the substance of a long meeting without reading the full transcript, and so clarifying questions surface in real time instead of after the fact.

“If in the next 12 months, a community organizer finds out a bill that affects their work is up for a hearing, realizes there is still time to say something, and they say something because of the value Roundtable can offer them, then that is a win for us.”
— Lenz Dagohoy, Roundtable

Since the event, Roundtable has been spotted deployed in live council sessions in the Philippines. The team has also applied for the inaugural Fellowship cohort.

🥈 Runner-Up — Wika · $1,200

Team members: Kien Leriss Serapio, Alexander Galedo, Jhondel Mico Abas, David Memorando, Leony Santos, Jude Tabuzo

Wika is a language preservation platform built around a gamified mobile app, powered by a custom LLM trained on regional Philippine language data, starting with Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Asi. It’s designed to support the government’s mother-tongue education mandate, enable real-time translation for tourism, and build the first generation of AI datasets that take Philippine regional languages seriously.

“WIKA isn’t just a project—it’s a promise. It’s a labor of love from a team that knows exactly what it feels like to sit at a family table and wish we had the words to speak to our own elders.”
— Kien Leriss Serapio, Wika

Wika has applied for the inaugural Fellowship cohort.

🥉 Honorable Mention — OWLARK (formerly Fightclub) · $800

Team members: Lou Diamond Morados, Jasper Abogado, Adrian Gallano

OWLARK is an AI-powered learning platform that runs entirely offline on low-end Android devices. It uses a hardware-aware architecture that dynamically loads specialized LoRA adapters into a small language model, so underserved communities can access real AI tutoring without needing an internet connection or a high-spec phone.

“We’re not solving this problem from the outside—we come from the problem. I’m from Baguio, in the Cordillera region. I experienced firsthand what it’s like to study without access to tutors, supplemental learning tools, or reliable internet. We’re not guessing what students need—we remember.”

— Lou Diamond Morados, OWLARK

OWLARK has applied for the inaugural Fellowship cohort (under their original team name, Fightclub).

🌐 Future of Work Award — SkillSeed · $250

Team members: Melfred Bernabe, Jed Allen Delovino, Julio Del Rosario, John Michael Elaurza, Shintaro A. Suzuki, Nene

SkillSeed is positioned as the human infrastructure the climate crisis has always needed: one platform that trains, connects, and deploys the volunteers and skilled workers a disaster response actually requires. It’s not a course platform and it’s not a job board; it’s the missing layer between people who want to help and the places where help is needed, starting in the Philippines and open to the world.

“It was a pleasure to build a prototype that was born out of genuine concern for the problems we struggle with as Filipinos.”
— John Michael Elaurza, SkillSeed

Since the event, the team has moved toward incorporating (“when Developer Camp winners band together and form a company immediately, you know it was a good event.”) They’ve also applied for the inaugural Fellowship cohort.

🌱 Climate & Regeneration Award — AniDex · $250

Team members: Sherimie Camua, Marco De Dios, Angelie Martirez

AniDex is a farmer-first agricultural intelligence platform. It’s part seed encyclopedia, part seasonality calendar, part pest-and-disease reference, and part direct marketplace. It gives smallholder farmers the information they’ve historically been cut off from, and gives consumers visibility into where their food actually comes from.

“We want to bring AniDex to life as a promise to Filipino farmers that someone is building for them.”
— Sherimie Camua, AniDex

Special guest judge APL.DE.AP presented the Climate & Regeneration Award to AniDex on stage, and expressed interest in supporting the team’s work further.

The week after the event, members of the AniDex team joined Earth Sama — one of apl’s projects — at a coconut farm in the countryside to see regenerative agriculture up close. The team has also applied for the inaugural Fellowship cohort.

💖 Health & Human Potential Award — PlanTipid · $250

Team members: Ardiel Drew Cristobal, Carl Louise Martin, Ma Ellery Brienne Santiago, Arnold Estores, with mentorship from Ellah Benerado

PlanTipid turns a single weekly peso budget into a nutritionally balanced 7-day meal plan built entirely from palengke-available ingredients. It generates a palengke-organized shopping list, offers Taglish step-by-step recipes and ingredient substitutions, and works offline. It’s built for the Nanay stretching every peso without guessing prices.

“More than the win, what I’m taking with me is this feeling of knowing there is still so much to learn. And instead of that feeling being intimidating, it actually excites me now. Because this hackathon showed me what’s possible when you just try—and I want to keep trying.”
— PlanTipid team member, via Dom Sagolla

🤝 Collective Prosperity Award — Salita · $250

Team member: Arnold Estores (solo entry)

Salita is a free AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) app that turns any cheap Android tablet into a fully functional communication board — in Tagalog, Bisaya, or other native Filipino dialects. It’s designed to replace therapy boards that typically cost ₱50,000 and up, so that nonverbal children and their families don’t have to choose between a device and the rest of a household budget.

Arnold was also part of the PlanTipid team that took the Health & Human Potential Award.

🏆 Grand Champion — Johnny Chuidian

Separate from the project awards, Developer Camp Manila honored Johnny Chuidian as Grand Champion for his individual contribution to the weekend. The Grand Champion of Developer Camp isn’t about a single project’s brilliance. It’s our Top Award, and it’s dedicated to recognizing the person who shows up hardest in support of everyone else.

Johnny spent the weekend helping and building alongside participants across teams, while also working on his own unique project, and the judging panel recognized that kind of ecosystem-level contribution as the thing that makes a cooperative hackathon actually cooperative.

“We exist, we deserve to exist, and we are grateful to be seen.”
— Johnny Chuidian, Grand Champion (final line of his Fellowship application; his project, fittingly, is called I Deserve to Exist)

The 16 Finalists

Beyond the seven prize-winning teams, there’s a second meaningful signal of quality from the weekend: the 16 finalist teams. Of the 53 projects submitted, 16 advanced to the finals stage, representing the top tier of the cohort by the judges’ and mentors’ assessment. Seven of the finalists went on to win top prizes or track awards, and the remaining nine are honored finalists in their own right. Their collective work marks the depth across the whole field:

AGOS — IoT-based flood early-warning system with street-level sensors and triple-redundant communications that keep working when cell towers fail
AniDex (Climate & Regeneration Award) — farmer-first agricultural intelligence platform with seed data, weather analysis, and a producer-to-consumer marketplace
BiyaHEY! — a grassroots community-built commute map for Metro Manila that combines crowdsourced local knowledge with a RAG pipeline to reveal routes conventional navigation apps miss
CoSkillLink — an AI-powered skill-exchange platform where people trade skills they want to learn for skills they can teach, instead of buying and selling them
OWLARK (formerly Fightclub) (Honorable Mention) — offline AI learning platform for low-end Android devices in underserved communities
KuboDex — a mobile app for farmers that handles crop health and quality analysis, weather forecasting, and a quality-priced produce marketplace in one place
PlanTipid (Health & Human Potential Award) — peso-budgeted, palengke-sourced weekly meal planning in Taglish, built to work offline
Roberto — a Metro Manila flood dashboard that scores how well each city’s high-hazard zones are covered by DPWH flood-control infrastructure, exposing the communities most underserved by current projects
Roundtable (Best Overall) — real-time intelligence platform for public policy work that maps stakeholder dynamics from meeting transcripts and documents
SALITA (Collective Prosperity Award) — free AAC app giving nonverbal Filipino children a voice in Tagalog, Bisaya, and other native dialects
SEEGLA — the first corporate wellness B2B SaaS platform built specifically for the Filipino workforce, rewarding healthy daily habits through a gamified app and brand marketplace
SkillSeed (Future of Work Award) — human infrastructure for climate and disaster response that trains, connects, and deploys volunteers where they’re needed
Ulam — a mobile-first food recommendation platform that tells Filipinos exactly what to eat and where to buy it, tuned to health goals, daily budget, and palengke-available ingredients
WellRead — a B2B clinical operating system that uses Model Context Protocol to bridge institutional hospital databases with a patient’s personal data, turning the 90% of health data that usually gets ignored into actionable physician briefs
Wika (Runner-Up) — gamified Filipino-language preservation platform powered by a custom LLM trained on Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Asi
WORM — an intelligent reading mentor that uses standard device cameras to track eye movement and pull readers’ attention back to the text, gamifying the fight against AI-summary dependency

Thank You to the People Who Made It Possible

Developer Camp Manila was built by an absolute Dream Team coalition of contributors. A few notes on who did what:

Production Partners

The people who made this event physically and operationally possible:

Paula Rosales and Giselle Tomimbang-Mercado — event producers and the strategic force behind bringing Developer Camp to Manila in the first place
Maude Labs — personal branding and strategy house that led the visual identity, storytelling, and media production for the event
R Concepts & Events (RCE) — local production and logistics partner
HOWS — local production, marketing, and social media partner
Anam Kara — social media partner
The Astbury — venue partner and the physical home of the weekend; since the event, they’ve agreed to serve as Developer Camp’s permanent community home in Manila with subsidized memberships for the Fellowship cohort
Coro Hotel — official hotel partner and host of the Sunday-night after-party, where the Makati Lancers and apl.de.ap closed the weekend

Judges

APL.DE.AP (Black Eyed Peas) · Kenji Kato (Graywhale) · Tallulah Le Merle · Carlo Delantar (Gobi Partners) · Jay Fajardo (LaunchGarage) · Trish Rosal (YGG) · Kasia Bojanowska (Fifty Years)

Mentors

Simone Grace Seol · Katrina Montinola · Nana Luz · Henry Tilford · Jared Dillinger · Iliac Diaz (Liter of Light) · Elyse Lefebvre · Alex Lamb · Jason Kim · Cal Blanco · Chelsey Rush · Ben Wertz · Meg Manzano · Genevieve Jopanda (APLFI) · Joy Wan / WAN MIN · Dr. Al Villarica · Dr. Reina Reyes · Nityalila Saulo & Desiree Llanos Dee (Tofu Creatives) · Terence Angsioco · Patrick Khan · Rafael Dionisio · Quark Henares · Dr. Victor Baron · Monica Tiosejo · Atty. Nathan Marasigan · Kat Gonzalez · Nic Reyes · Lynn Pinugu · Reese Fernandez (Rags2Riches) · Jean Alfonso-Decena · Mench Dizon · David Esteban & Dona Tumacder-Esteban

College & Education Partners

DLSU SCALE · UP Nova · Computer Society of Ateneo · DLSU Microsoft Student Community · ASES (Affiliated Stanford Entrepreneurial Students Manila)

Community Partners

APLFI / FYLPRO · Geeks on a Beach · OffChain · Earth Sama · Wellnest / Fuel to Flourish · Monfort Foundation · YGG · Metaversity · YGG Alerts · La French Tech · Connected Women Philippines · MettaMatch · Launchgarage · Gobi Partners · Foxmont Capital · Kaya Founders · Liter of Light · Waves for Water · OneSunAsia / Megawatt Solutions · EdukasyonPH · Mano Amiga Academy · The Earth School · InnerMoon Well-being · Tier 1 Entertainment · R Concepts & Events · Maude Labs · Rags 2 Riches · She Talks Asia · Hilom Collective · HOWS · Treehouse · ArtMed.io · Nomad Finance Girl · Chef Nate B. Jones · Groupmuse · Jagged Perspective · In Silence AI · MAD Travel · the City of Makati

Media Partners

When in Manila · Independent Investor · Hustleshare Podcast · Try Local

F&B Partners

Pick Up Coffee · LICK El Nido · Dehusk · Aling Patring’s · Jack Daniels · Engkanto Beer

What’s Next

The Developer Camp Manila Fellowship

The most important piece of what’s next is the Developer Camp Manila Fellowship: a yearlong program for an inaugural cohort of teams from the 2026 cohort. The Fellowship provides:

A monthly stipend for each team
Ongoing mentorship from the global mentor network
Subsidized coworking at The Astbury as a physical home for the work
Media and storytelling support from Maude Labs and Developer Camp’s production team

Applications are now closed. Funding conversations with potential supporters are actively underway, and multiple funders have already stepped forward with commitments for the Fellowship program.

To request the Fellowship Prospectus or explore partnership, reach out to team@developer.camp.

A Permanent Community in Manila

In the weeks after the event, two things happened that will help shape what Developer Camp Manila can become from this point forward:

The City of Makati — through the Mayor’s Office, has expressed interest in supporting Developer Camp as a permanently installed community partner, with potential strategic collaboration on additional country-wide initiatives.
The Astbury has agreed to serve as Developer Camp’s permanent community home in Manila, offering subsidized memberships for the Fellowship cohort so that the projects built in March have a physical place to keep being built.
Softype has offered the use of their office space in Cebu as a satellite home for a Cebu chapter of Developer Camp, for teams who want to co-work together and for community members who want to host Developer Camp events.

More Developer Camps in 2026

Developer Camp continues to expand this year, with editions planned in San Francisco and Singapore later in 2026. Specific dates and programming will be announced in dedicated posts.

Closing

There’s a lot we could say in closing, but we’ll fall short every time in trying to find words for how grateful, honored, and impressed we were with you and what this experience meant to us. So instead, we’ll close with meaningful things the participants themselves had to say:

“I came into that room expecting nothing. I’m leaving with a product, a team, and a whole lot of belief that you don’t have to be the most technical person in the room to build something that matters. You just have to show up.” — a Developer Camp Manila participant

“Making it a collaborative atmosphere instead of competitive makes it more relational and fulfilling.” — Rome Cañete, Artner

“One mentor saw something in AGOS that even we, the people who built it, couldn’t see anymore. Her belief in us brought us back. It reminded us why we started and why this project matters.” — a member of the AGOS team

“Being in the Top 15 Finalists is one thing, but having to share ideas, gain more knowledge, exchange conversations, and meet the people you look up to is the biggest win I could ever ask for.” — a Developer Camp Manila finalist

Thank you, Manila. This is just the beginning—and what an unforgettable beginning it has been. We can’t wait to see what we’ll all do together next.

— Anna, Dom, Giselle, Paula, and the entire Developer Camp Team

Appendix: All Project Submissions

Every project that was submitted at Developer Camp Manila 2026, listed as recognition for the 200+ builders who showed up and shipped something in 72 hours. Alphabetical by project name.

AGOS — IoT flood monitoring and early-warning system with triple-redundant communications. Eliesha Mae Francisco, Lance Miguel Evangelista, Lorenz Velasco, Kenny Ivan Zamora
Agapay.ph — AI-assisted platform connecting Filipinos to nearby government, NGO, and community social services through a multilingual chatbot. William McEwan, Shaina Mae Totisano, Alfeo Ephraim Quintay, Janine Illejay
Agent Daredevil — sports prediction and analysis platform powered by an AI agent. John Sedano, Jared Dillinger, Jose Estrella
Agero — full-stack platform for building and deploying AI agents fast, with RAG, custom HTTP tools, and WhatsApp/Messenger deployment. Marc Dagatan
Alagang Pamilya — family health platform centralizing data for OFWs and busy professionals watching over loved ones from afar. Jasper Jamir, Raia Quitoriano, Angel Zoleta
AniDex — farmer-first agricultural intelligence platform with seed data, market visibility, and a direct marketplace. Sherimie Camua, Marco De Dios, Angelie Martirez
AURA — AI-powered focus monitor that detects attention drops during digital learning and intervenes with timely nudges. Joanne Costo, Desiree Capacia
Auracle — global platform for discovering intentional real-world experiences, connecting hosts, practitioners, and seekers. Jhon Dolor, Dionel Vincent Manzo, Nicole Pastor
BiyaHEY! — grassroots, community-driven commute map for Metro Manila’s fragmented public transit, built on crowdsourced routes and a RAG pipeline. Andrew Alangcao, John Joseph Donato, Matthew Javier, Alain Zuriel Marcos, Hans Jared Sescon, Darryl Johnson Ty, Ryu Kisen Unisan, Derrick Valdellon
Commutenity — commuter assistant analyzing real-time traffic, weather, and cost to generate smarter routes with voice summaries. France Khalil Romero, Timothy Raj Thadani
CoSkillLink — AI-powered skill exchange platform where people trade skills instead of buying them. Troy Lazaro, Shaan Mansukhani, Brian Metrillo, Fan Liu, Leo Feng, Dan Zhu, James Tian, Wenjuan Xu
cTrue — hiring platform that strips away resume noise and bias to connect talent with opportunity based on proven ability. Emmanuel Ivan Bernardo, Eunice Angeline Cruz, Kerby Denilla, Osyris Benedict Fajardo, Jian Kyle Hornales
Daluyan — mobile-first flood alert and community resilience platform with hyper-local alerts and LGU accountability tools. Catherine Notado, Emiel, Benedict Jane, Emmanuel Fabella
EcoWatch PH — civil-tech platform for reporting street issues directly through Telegram. Ethan Segovia, Sherwin Sayo
Fylo — AI-assisted email routing layer for customer support that explains its decisions and pauses for human review when confidence is low. Vincent Ferrer, Miguel Kalaw, Lauvigne Lumeda, Roi Roberto, Kean Rosales
I Deserve to Exist: A Neurodivergent Adventure — visual novel concept bridging neurodivergent and neurotypical players through lived empathy. Johnny Chuidian, Sana Schifferer
Ideaspace — AI agents for non-engineers; a visual desktop workspace fork of OpenCode for planning and running AI workflows. Andre Dalwin Tan, Chris Melvin Factoriza
JuanWork — merit-based home-repair hiring platform on Facebook Messenger with mandatory KYC and a trust-ladder accountability system. Kenneth Gonzales, Pierre Victor Zurbito
Kernal / Quedan / DriftStream — solo entries on agricultural commodity DeFi, a digital ledger for Philippine food security, and AI-powered vehicle performance tuning. Nickjohn Ibuyat
Kita — AI-powered inclusive service marketplace with voice-command booking and blockchain-based reputation for skilled workers. Jet Timothy Cerezo, Gabriel Nasol, Jericho Andrew De Castro, Brian James Dela Cruz, Jeremy Brooklin
KuboDex — mobile app for farmers combining crop health analysis, weather forecasting, and a quality-priced produce marketplace. Lloyd Urbino, Shawn Calda
Kumpuni — AI-empowered (not replaced) matching platform for informal skilled laborers, using computer vision to identify repair problems from a photo. Christian Mark Francisco, Danilo Casim Jr, James Ryan Amba, Richmonde Paulo Gatchalian, Ryan Saavedra, Addysson Diculen
Ligtas — AI-powered spatial mapping system that equips barangay workers to detect and measure stagnant water — the breeding ground of dengue mosquitoes — before outbreaks start. Czarina Lily Sy
LULA — demand-first digital platform connecting regenerative producers directly with businesses and consumers, with verifiable sustainability certification. John Chris Kwong, Jasper Adrian Dwight Castro, Alyssa Patricia Ocampo, Nick John Ibuyat, Nerielyn Pablo, Ethyl Joy Badiang
Marahan — onboarding and coordination engine for a Filipino builders’ cooperative, matching skilled talent to reform-driven operators. Carl John Salces, John Paul Poliquit, Kyle Gabriel Reynoso, Raymund Klien Mañago
MetaVision — preoperative intelligence platform for neurosurgery, aggregating MRI imaging, radiology, labs, and clinical notes into a queryable interface with AI-driven tumor segmentation. Louella Agui, Neil Casas, Nigel Ryen Rillera, Sudip Shah, Ysabella Manay, Gillian Acero
OWLARK (formerly Fightclub) — offline AI learning platform for low-end Android devices using a hardware-aware LoRA-adapter architecture. Lou Diamond Morados, Jasper Abogado, Adrian Gallano
PASAKAY — ride-hailing app built specifically for TODA-registered tricycle drivers and passengers, with a bilingual AI driver assistant. Justine Altaire Concepcion, Axel De Juan, Nazh Manuel Lingatong, Gerard Jose Salvador, Marc Joseph Odon
PillSafe — medication safety app with scanning, dosage reminders, and drug-interaction alerts, built for elderly patients and polypharmacy. Monta Venida
PlanTipid — peso-budgeted, palengke-organized 7-day meal planner with Taglish recipes and offline support. Ardiel Drew Cristobal, Carl Louise Martin, Ma Ellery Brienne Santiago, Arnold Estores (mentor: Ellah Benerado)
PockIT — social-impact fintech for frictionless daily expense tracking that turns everyday spending into a bankability-ready expense behavior report. Kiel Velarde, Gian Reyes, Jeff Pascual, Ralph Garcia, Dann de Asis
Pulsify — gamified running app turning real heart-rate data into Beats, a biometric currency powering evolving rhythm creatures and weekly leagues. Rhussel Jhone Combo, Rolan Jero Pinton, Princess Abigail Talidano, Ken Patrick Garcia, Mark Angelo Siazon, Prince Zablan, Eusef Cadano, Raiden Bernard Bayacal
Resilience AI — AI-powered app generating hyper-personalized disaster survival plans per household, functioning even when infrastructure fails. Edward Russell Gutierrez
Roberto — Metro Manila flood dashboard scoring how well DPWH infrastructure actually covers each city’s hazard zones. Xynil Jhed Lacap
Roundtable — real-time intelligence platform for public policy that visualizes meeting stakeholder dynamics as an explorable map. Angelica Casuela, Lenz Dagohoy
Salita — free AAC app turning cheap Android tablets into communication boards in Tagalog, Bisaya, and native Filipino dialects. Arnold Estores
SEEGLA — B2B SaaS corporate wellness platform built for the Filipino workforce, rewarding healthy habits through a gamified app. Jenzele Cabangon, Joseph Tolentino, JV Bialen, Karl Mangapot, Druv Soni, John Rey Calipes, Julius Silvano
SkillSeed — platform that trains, connects, and deploys the volunteers and skilled workers a climate and disaster response actually needs. Melfred Bernabe, Jed Allen Delovino, Julio Del Rosario, John Michael Elaurza, Shintaro A. Suzuki, Nene
Sourcely — building-materials price comparison and AI-agent ordering across Wilcon, Lazada, Shopee, and Alibaba for Filipino contractors. Joaquine Ataya, Sebastian Atencia, Gabriel Arellano
Sparq — AR-powered relationship quotient tool designed to augment human intuition so no spark of connection goes unnoticed. AJ Miller T. Perez
Tinig-Cleft2Speech — interactive speech therapy app for people with cleft lip/palate, using voice-cloned pronunciation playback for more natural practice. Jommel Rowin Sabater
Ulam — mobile-first food recommendation platform tuned to health goals, daily budget, and palengke-available ingredients, built on Philippine medicinal plant data. Christian Bayquen, Ericson Muros
Visual Novel App Builder — real-time tool that converts text, audio, or video expressions into visual novel scenes reflecting emotional state and narrative style. Bino Sañez, Marnel Barnatia, Kent Laurence Gentilezo, Edwin Maduro
WellRead — B2B clinical operating system using Model Context Protocol to bridge hospital databases with a patient’s personal data for more accurate consultations. Donsir Arcilla, Klyde Apostol, Atsushi Vengco
Wika — gamified Filipino-language preservation platform powered by a custom LLM for Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Asi. Kien Leriss Serapio, Alexander Galedo, Jhondel Mico Abas, David Memorando, Leony Santos, Jude Tabuzo
WORM — intelligent reading mentor using standard device cameras to track eye movement and pull attention back to long-form text. Psalter Placer, Shan Tagala
Zenbox AI — centralized messaging platform unifying Gmail, Slack, and Discord into a single calm interface to cure notification fatigue. Russell Martinez

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Developer Camp Manila 2026 Winners