PixelFlow, an AI-powered mood board generator developed by Bangladeshi coder Rezaul Karim Arif, has won the AI Showdown Hackathon held on Thursday. The competition was organised by Swedish platform Lovable with support from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Arif’s project stood out among 5,118 global entries and was built within the hackathon’s 40-hour time limit.
Arif told Dhaka Tribune: “I have a plan to polish the prototype and sell it as a SAAS (Software as a service) in the future.”
“I was shocked when I heard I won,” said Arif.
“This project shows the capability and pushes the boundaries of AI tools nowadays, and anyone can build powerful things,” he added.
In the initial round, he received $10,000 from Anthropic as he was using Anthropic's Claude 4 LLM model. In the final round, he named the overall winner of the hackathon, awarding him another $10,000.
Arif said: “I want more people from Bangladesh to get into this new AI-powered coding field.”
Arif is currently working as a Network Engineer in an Australian-based company. Arif started his career in freelance design when he was in school. He moved to Australia to study IT at LaTrobe University in 2015.
