“Amala isn’t just food — it’s a warm embrace from your ancestors, wrapped in history and spiced with pride.” — Idris Bello, Afropreneur

Now more than ever, speed & execution is a competitive advantage. Great ideas die in backlog; working products win hearts. We’re running this buildathon to compress months of “we should build this” into a single day of shipping and two focused weeks of polish, so the community can actually use something real.

We’ll help with speed, you focus on execution. GDG Lagos and partners provide starter kits, mentors, and a clear Definition of Done. You bring product instincts and cultural context. Together, we’ll launch a usable MVP on Day 1, then refine it for a public beta by finals.

What We’re Building and Why It Matters. Finding authentic Amala shouldn’t be luck. We’re creating a vertical discovery & verification layer (not a Google Maps clone): a crowdsourced atlas that auto-discovers likely spots from the public web, prevents duplicates, and lets the community add photos and reviews, open-sourced so it can live beyond the event.

DevFest Lagos season = ship, not just talk. The Amala Hackathon is our proof: build and launch fast, in public, with the community. Winner takes all, code goes open source, and the platform gets a real domain, so future generations never struggle to find the good bowl.

• Storytelling & Impact - (5%)
  Amala spirit, clarity, usefulness
• Scalability, Openness & Architecture - 10%
  Clean repo, OSS release, domain setup, data model.
• Maps Execution - 10%
  Clustering, filters, geosearch, performance.
• Autonomous Discovery - 15%
  Effectiveness of web scanning, candidate extraction, scoring, and verification flow.
• Agentic Intelligence - 20%
  Quality of prompts/skills; A2A or multi‑agent orchestration where useful.
• Working Prototype & UX - 25%
  Quality & intuitiveness across platforms
• Data Quality & Trust (15)
  Data used and how it is cleaned.