Figma opens Config Makeathon with $100,000 prizes and June 18 deadline

• figma's announcement opened the Config Makeathon on June 4, while tranmautritam's entry link and the Contra landing page point entrants to a competition with $100,000 in prizes.
• The submission window runs through June 18, according to tranmautritam's launch post and the official entry page.
• tranmautritam's preregistration post says all participants get temporary Figma Pro access and 1.5K Figma Weave AI credits with a new Weave account.
• The biggest hook is early tooling access: the preregistration details say the first 10,000 people to preregistered by June 3 at 5 p.m. PT get Figma's new design agent beta on June 4, while Figma's agent announcement says the broader beta is rolling out gradually.

You can enter on Contra, browse Figma's agent announcement, and cross-check the current beta terms in Figma's release notes. One useful wrinkle is that the makeathon bundled perks are more concrete than the general beta waitlist: tranmautritam's offer breakdown lists Pro access, Weave credits, and a fast path into the agent beta for early preregistrants.

Figma and community partners spent launch day pushing one simple message: the makeathon is live now, and the clock stops on June 18.

The clearest official path is the Contra entry page, which frames the event as a 14-day challenge for designers, builders, and creators. 0xCharlota's launch post adds one useful bit of social proof, she says she won $50,000 in the last Figma makeathon, while this one raises the total pool to $100,000.

The prize money is only half the pitch. tranmautritam's preregistration post turned the bundle into a short checklist:

• $100,000 total prizes.
• Figma Pro access for participants during the event.
• 1.5K Figma Weave AI credits with a new Weave account.
• Design agent beta access on June 4 for the first 10,000 people who preregistered by June 3 at 5 p.m. PT.

Those last two perks line up with Figma's bigger AI rollout. Figma's release notes say the agent beta is rolling out over the coming weeks, will be free during beta, and is limited to Full seat users on Professional, Organization, and Enterprise plans; The Figma Design Agent is Here says the tool lives directly on the canvas and in the left rail.

The makeathon is also a distribution play for Figma's newest AI surface. tranmautritam's beta-access post tied entry to the design agent beta the day before launch, and figma's own kickoff video pitched the event with "Design matters now more than ever."

According to The Figma Design Agent is Here, the agent can generate and remix designs, automate rote work, and pull from design-system context. The makeathon package effectively gives solo creators a live excuse to test that stack under deadline pressure, with Weave credits on one side and agent access on the other.

By June 3, Figma had already lined up public judging and community prompt bait. tranmautritam's judge post says he is an official judge and will score for innovative thinking, creative execution, and high-craft finish.

tranmautritam's idea prompt also floated a very Config-coded project brief: a tool that captures your facial expressions and turns them into animated UI elements, mascots, or icons. That detail did not appear in the launch posts, and it says a lot about the kind of entries Figma wants flooding the gallery over the next two weeks.