Hands-On: Production AI Agents with Apify, The AI Runtime Boston
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Hands-On: Production AI Agents with Apify

An evening for people building, shipping, and scaling with AI. Agents are moving from demos to production fast, and reliable agents take more than wiring an LLM to a few tools. In this hands-on session with Apify, you will build agent workflows that gather data from the web, connect to external tools, and run real tasks end to end. Bring a laptop. Supported by HackerSquad and Builders Collective.

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Presenters

Who shared what

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Kranthi Manchikanti
AI Architect · Microsoft

Founder of The AI Runtime and an AI Architect at Microsoft, based in Boston. He hosts the Boston meetups and runs the Field Lab.

Talk

Welcome and intro

Opening the build night: The AI Runtime, the format for the evening, and what a good show and tell looks like.

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Petros Hong
Developer Community Manager · Apify

Developer Community Manager at Apify, working with developers who build and ship AI agents. He leads the hands-on Apify workshop.

Talk

Apify: Power to the Builders

The featured talk of the build night: how builders use Apify actors to give agents live web data and real tools, setting up the hands-on workshop that followed.

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Agenda
  1. 6:00 PM Networking and food
  2. 6:30 PM Hands-on workshop with Apify: building agent-powered workflows with tools and web data
  3. 8:00 PM Show and tell
  4. 8:30 PM Close
Platform partner
Apify Workshop partner HackerSquad Supported by Builders Collective Supported by
Recap

What happened

A hands-on build night at Microsoft NERD with Apify, HackerSquad, and Builders Collective. Kranthi Manchikanti opened the night and Petros Hong (Apify) gave the featured talk, “Apify: Power to the Builders.” Then the room built: 18 projects shipped in one evening, most wired to Apify actors and assembled with tools like Bolt, Claude Code, and Supabase. Recordings and full build details live on the HackerSquad event page.

What got built

  • TicketTracer: tracks the real-time delta between face-value tickets and secondary-market markups across major touring events. Repo
  • TruckCast: shows the weather along a truck route using Apify’s Google Maps Route and Weather scrapers. Repo
  • WealthWire: turns the risk-factor section of every 10-K and 10-Q into structured, comparable data for screening the S&P 500. Live
  • Domain Expiry Tracker: paste a list of domain names and see which are expiring soon. Demo
  • Trends Radar: a trends radar for social media. Demo
  • Configgo Lead Radar: scores Boston’s public development filings into prioritized real estate leads, flagging permits no one has covered yet. Built with Apify’s RAG Web Browser and Bolt. Demo
  • Quick Question: a party game where every player writes a question for a given answer, then the room votes for the funniest. Demo
  • HypeIndex: scrapes what the press writes and plots it against what players actually do, to spot who is overhyped and who is flying under the radar. Repo
  • NightFinds: finds shops, restaurants, and services actually open right now, anywhere in the world, evaluated against each venue’s local time. Repo
  • InterviewForge: interview prep across 16 tech companies, with 417 interview rounds and 1,143 practice questions. Demo
  • The Multiverse Decider: simulates branching future timelines from your life choices, grounded in live Apify search data. Link
  • Prospect Scout: finds the first few customers for your project. Repo
  • Congressional Trading Digest: tracks trades by members of Congress.
  • Azure IaC Generator: generates Azure infrastructure-as-code templates, parameter files, and deployment scripts, ready to run.
  • Situent: an agent that helps you make sense of your time and how to do better. Repo
  • Pain Miner: extracts complaints from Reddit posts, ranks them by intensity and volume, and surfaces business opportunities. Demo
  • Job + HR Finder: filters live-scraped AI/ML job postings by keywords from your resume, then finds the recruiters at each company. Built with Apify actors and Claude Code. Repo
  • GamePulse AI: a real-time sports copilot that gives every live game an explainable 0 to 100 watchability score and tells fans what to watch right now. Repo

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