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Chatforce sponsored SOON, a weekend hackathon near Toronto
- Event
- SOON (Something out of Nothing), May 2026
- Date
- Friday, May 8 to Sunday, May 10, 2026
- Where
- $3 million cottage, Greater Toronto Area, Toronto
- Organizer
- SOON
- Chatforce’s role
- Sponsor, judge and speaker
Chatforce sponsored SOON (Something out of Nothing), a hackathon held May 8 to 10, 2026 in a $3 million cottage in the Greater Toronto Area. The SOON website lists 50 hackers, 17 projects and 9 workshops.
Patricia Wong and Victoria Chernobay won the Chatforce track with Lootboard, a product placement marketplace for indie games. The prize was two ModRetros loaded with Mario, Pokémon and Tetris.
Caellum Yip Hoi-Lee, Chloe Houvardas, Darshan Shah and Jeremy Liu, all Chatforce engineers, entered as a team and won the Polarity and Cloudinary tracks with Auctopus. Chatforce CEO Robert Ciborowski was a judge and speaker.
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About Chatforce
Chatforce is a Toronto startup building an AI platform that turns your game idea into a playable 2D or 3D game you can share with a link. Users describe a game in plain English and AI agents build it. Multiplayer is supported, and creators own their games. See plans.
Chatforce was founded by Robert Ciborowski (CEO), Maeesha Biswas (COO) and Peter Won (CTO), and raised a $2.1M CAD pre-seed round led by Drive Capital in November 2025. Company facts are on the press page. Chatforce is hiring engineers in Toronto: jobs.chatforce.com.