Co-Hosting a Travel and Hospitality Hackathon in NYC
A LinkedIn post announcing a one-day travel and hospitality hackathon in NYC — co-hosted with Somya Gupta of localhost:nyc and powered by Lovable — built around AI trip planning, hotel and hospitality operations, local experiences, and the future of travel.
What this shows
Framing a hackathon around the real broken workflows in travel and hospitality — trip planning scattered across tabs and group chats, messy guest operations, and travelers landing in cities with no clear answer to 'what should I actually do here?' — and pulling AI builders, engineers, founders, and travel-adjacent operators into one room to ship against it.
Why this matters
This sample shows how I use IRL events as distribution — assembling the right builders around a real theme, partnering with an established NYC builder community, and turning a one-day hackathon into a repeatable way to surface teams working on the same travel-tech problems WanderWorth cares about.