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Yuhmmy Codeathon: Presented by Labs
Engineering Taste. Earning Equity. Building the Future.

Yuhmmy Codeathon

Beverly Hills, Fall 2025 — Private Location
Event Time: 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Apply: apply@codeathon.dev

Labs proudly presents the Yuhmmy Codeathon™, a one-of-a-kind engineering sprint where the rewards aren't just prizes — they're shares. Designed for the next generation of taste-tech builders, the Codeathon is your opportunity to step into Labs not as an employee, but as an owner.

This is not your typical hackathon.
It's a founder-track experience embedded inside a billion-dollar company.

What Is the Yuhmmy Codeathon?

A daylong, on-site engineering sprint hosted in Beverly Hills, California, where 12 elite engineers will be selected to compete and collaborate on building real, high-impact systems for Yuhmmy — the Social-Taste Super App™, and the core platform inside lab6: LavLabs of Labs Companies, Inc.

This is where:
Social meets Taste.
AI meets Flavor.
Commerce meets Cravings.

What You'll Build

Participants will prototype, iterate, and ship critical modules across the Yuhmmy stack, including:

  • Cravecoins + Cravecash (T2T Payments & Tokenization)
  • Tastefeed + Tasterooms (Real-time Taste Sharing)
  • Yuhmmy Wallet + Tastebank (FinTaste Infrastructure)
  • STAGs + STAMs (Social-Taste Agents + Models)
  • T-Commerce Engine (Taste Commerce Systems)
  • Yuhmmy AR/VR (Immersive Taste Interfaces)

You'll have direct access to product leaders, AI engineers, and immersive technologists to support your builds — and your vision.

The SWEAT Program™

Start With Equity Allocation Team

The Codeathon is the official entry point into Labs' SWEAT Program™ — a bold new initiative designed for early engineers to join Labs not through salaries, but through sweat equity.

SWEAT stands for Start With Equity Allocation Team, a philosophy that talent should earn ownership before compensation. At Labs, we don't hire employees — we recruit co-creators.

What You're Competing For: SWEAT Shares™

The top-performing engineers at the Yuhmmy Codeathon will receive:

  • 0.25% equity in Labs Companies, Inc.
  • 325,000 Class A Common Stock shares
  • A 1-year cliff, 4-year vesting structure
  • Access to the Labs ESOP pool post-Series Seed
  • $1 starting salary until the $25M Series Seed closes
  • Official Founding Team recognition
  • A lifelong badge as a SWEAT Engineer™

This is true founder equity inside a $1B+ trajectory company.

Focus Areas

// iOS Frontend + Backend
// Audiovisual / Multimedia Handling
// Real-Time Streaming
// Cloud Infrastructure + DevOps
// API Development + Integration
// Database Management
// AI / ML , NLP + Algos
// AR / VR Filters + Effects

Who Should Apply?

You are a full-stack, back-end, or infrastructure engineer who:

  • Wants to build at the edge of taste, tech, and culture
  • Can code with speed, clarity, and creative intent
  • Has startup grit and a founder's mindset
  • Prefers equity-first roles and co-ownership over corporate tiers
  • Dreams of redefining social platforms, immersive computing, and transaction models

If you're tired of "jobs" and ready to build something generational, this is your shot.

Why Labs + Yuhmmy?

Yuhmmy, operated by LavLabs (lab6), is the world's first Social-Taste Super App™, combining entertainment, financial tech, and social commerce into a single sensory experience.

We're building:

  • The Social-Taste Stack™
  • T-Commerce Infrastructure
  • Taste Now, Pay Later™ (TNPL) systems
  • AR/VR Tasteworlds
  • A marketplace where human taste is programmable

And we want you to help lead it.

Codeathon Perks

  • All travel & accommodations covered
  • All meals by Yuhmmy Chefs
  • Exclusive training & mentorship from Maya Elz Davis & Duránd F. Davis Jr.
  • Direct ownership of engineering roadmap modules
  • Full integration into Labs' 7-Lab ecosystem post-raise
  • Priority access to future roles, leadership, and innovations

The Details

Event Date: Fall 2025
Time: 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Location: Private Labs HQ — Beverly Hills, CA
Apply Now: apply@codeathon.dev

Your Moment. Your Module. Your Move.

Come for the pizza.
Stay for the equity.
Leave with a future.

Yuhmmy Codeathon™ — Build What the World Will Taste.™