#lets build

Audiotool is a free, browser-based multiplayer music production platform with over 300,000 monthly active users across 200+ countries — a community that has created over 10 million tracks and more than 600,000 collaborations. Built for real-time co-creation from the ground up, Audiotool recently launched NEXUS, the first open developer platform for collaborative music production, giving developers, AI tools, and music apps full read/write access to live DAW sessions.

Running May 11-July 6, 2026, they will host a hackathon series around the world that will bring together students, musicians, music lovers, and developers to make the apps and DAW extensions they’ve always dreamed of using AI-powered coding and NEXUS, Audiotool’s SDK. Events will happen online on Audiotool’s Dev Discord, as well as in real life at partnering organizations who will hold hackathon sprints, meetups, and other moments of community connection and creation.

The resulting projects will go before a panel of judges, including Manon Dave, Head of Future World Design at BBC Research & Development, where he focuses on using emerging technologies to help creators better own, control and monetise their work through fairer systems. He is also an award winning technologist and music producer, having worked on projects for leading names including will.i.am and Idris Elba. 

Along with some of the best music schools in the world, such as Berklee and NYU in the US, Audiotool will collaborate with some of  its long-standing supporters, including the Esports World Cup, Esports Nations Cup, and the WHO Youth Council, to help amplify the message to young people everywhere. Let’s Build! is also supported by OpenAI, Base44, and ElevenLabs, among others.

With more than 300K MAU and millions of tracks and collaborations, the online DAW Audiotool was created to sweep away all barriers between people who want to make music together. Audiotool users have proven what's possible when these barriers fall: Almighty Quise, a teenager from Watts, California, made his track “Uno” on a school computer. It went on to hit Billboard and generate over 50 million Spotify streams.

Let’s Build! extends that mission, tearing down the wall between musical prowess, playfulness, and technical knowhow. It’s the first step in what promises to be the complete transformation of music into a flexible world where everyone can play thanks to AI code assistants. 

Audiotool recently launched a new layer, its NEXUS SDK. This umbrella SDK forms the perfect basis for “vibe coding” music apps that are as multiplayer and multifaceted as Audiotool itself. The platform can read and write all separate tracks of a project (song) and gives an AI a system-wide view of a music project, free from the limitations of other DAWs and their VST/plugin protocols. These capabilities make coding plugins, remote control programs, and other cool software far simpler. Audiotool has also made its SDK open source and offers documentation, ready-made prompts and example code to inspire and support aspiring developers and music makers. 

“Audiotool is a multiplayer music creation platform by design, and our ethos is community-first,” explains Audiotool co-founder and CEO Andreas Jacobi. “We have worked for years to remove barriers to collaboration, creativity, and exploration, and now technology is allowing us to tear down yet another, the technical barrier between a cool idea and an amazing new piece of software. If you can describe it, you can now build it. We can't wait to see what community members, music-loving developers, artists, really anyone who’s excited about coding, come up with.”

“I’m super excited to be invited to judge the Let’s Build! hackathon. I started out making tunes in my bedroom and hacking away on software similar to AudioTool, trying to find a unique sound for my music, so I know how powerful it is when you’re given the chance to get under the hood and bring your ideas to life,” says Manon Dave. “What Audiotool is doing here is opening that up even further, bringing creativity and coding together so people can build entirely new ways of making music. I’m excited to see what people create when you have the space to experiment.”

The company was founded by the team behind Make.TV's patented Live Video Router — the low-latency broadcast infrastructure powering live production for the NBA, NFL, BBC, and major esports leagues — bringing proven expertise in real-time distributed systems to music creation.

Audiotool is backed by Unlock Venture Partners, BITKRAFT, T.Capital (Deutsche Telekom), FTW Capital, and Spitfire Audio, with angel investors including Ralf Reichert (co-founder of ESL), Kevin Lin (co-founder of Twitch), Aaron Elharar (manager of Bruno Mars), and Stefan Glaenzer (Last.fm)

Hey guys! Rylie here. Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend and drinking plenty of water! 

This evening I wanted to put together a brainstorming session for the new project I’m going to try to tackle. I’ve been working through a few ideas, and I’m thinking I’ll mash some of them together and try my hand at building a custom world in Sims 3 from the ground up! This way I can experiment with landscaping, home and community lots, different building and design styles; the works! So if you’re interested in seeing what we can come up with along the way feel free to join me for the journey on my YouTube or maaaybe even Twitch if I can figure that out! 

Some things I want to try so far:

Neighborhoods

Vista Village (some type of trailer park area, cheaper housing)

Affluere Hills (the rich, extravagant homes playing off of my own local hilled neighborhood and a district from a D&D homebrew world I’ve made)

Sunset Circle (nice middle of the road housing, comfy neighborhood)

Community Spaces

Center City (an area of the world with your basic lots like hospitals, city hall, police station, and other necessities)

Dusk Drive (a strip somewhere near Center City, where you will find the nightlife and excitement of the area, bars and clubs and maybe 18+ hangouts)

Shops/Small Businesses (a metaphysical shop, thrift stores, book store, craft market, things like that!)

Parks Galore (of course a variety of different public parks and hangouts, fishing spots, small and large scattered through neighborhoods and otherwise)

Other Ideas

The Wandering Woods (an area of the world with a small mix of residential and community lots, lots of fishing and rivers and trees, a longer drive out with a nature-loving vibe)

But I need your help!

I’m always open to ideas and suggestions and if you’d like to build this world with me, let me hear 'em! 

Specific Things I Need Help Figuring Out

Cemeteries (this is a necessity of course, but I’m not sure if I should do small one’s spread out through the world or one big community one or something? I’m open to suggestions!)

Ideas for cute small businesses to include!

What to name the world as a whole!

Anything else you come up with that could be a neat addition! The world is our oyster :) 

Thanks guys! I look forward to building with you!