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Awesome Hackathon

A curated open list of platforms and tools that can help you to organize and run tolerant and productive hackathons.

This list tries to cover what is ⚡️awesome⚡️ about hackathons, hackdays and hacknights, and the community of organizers who run them! See also 🕶️awesome-hackathons, 🕶️awesome-hackathon-projects and 🕶️awesome-hackathon-starters. Are you interested in the science of hackathons? Join our new 📚 Zotero library.

To help improve this list, please check out the Contributing section.

Platforms

By awesome 🕶️ hackathon platforms, we mean web or mobile applications that are specifically designed to run a hackathon, or which have effectively adapted for use in events of this type. They typically allow organizers to announce the schedule and topics, register participants, and document the results.

Open Source 🌳

These can be run with a cloud provider or self-hosted, to take full control of the data. Being open source efforts, they typically embrace open standards. Several are developed by non-profits and volunteer communities.

  • Dribdat - Hackathons for impact, based on open data and web standards.
  • HackAssistant - Hackathon registration server.
  • HackDash - Organize hackaton ideas into a dashboard.
  • HackPortal - A platform from HackUTD for user-friendly event management.
  • HackathonManager - Hackathon registration & logistics, compatible with MyMLH.
  • Hack the Back - An elegant backend, with ready-made GraphQL and REST endpoints.
  • Hibiscus - An all-in-one, plug-and-play hackathon platform, created for HackSC.
  • JunctionApp - All-in-one hackathon platform for organisers, maintained by Junction.
  • OpenHackathon - Platform with Git-based Cloud Development Environment based on Next.js.
  • Opportunity Hack - Skills-Based Volunteering for Social Good, matching people to projects.
  • Civic Tech Exchange - Online platform for Democracy Lab projects.
  • DeltaHacks Portal - The attendee & admin portal for DeltaHacks 10, the hackathon for change.

Closed Source 🔒

Despite having a presence on GitHub, the core sources of these applications are at this time closed, or their licenses unspecified.

  • Agorize - A French company that provides open innovation software.
  • Devfolio - Supporting India's 'largest and fastest growing community of builders'.
  • Devpost - U.S. company whose customers market developer tools and jobs to the community.
  • Hacksuite - A fullstack suite of apps from Devtranet for hosting virtual hackathons.
  • TAIKAI - Connects creators and companies, using hackathons, bounties and hiring challenges.

Unmaintained 🧊

These projects, while open source, are currently not showing signs of active development. Please contact us if you think otherwise! They might need your help, or have valuable content that could be reused.

  • Find Hackathon - A Cross-Platform Mobile Application for finding Hackathons.
  • Hackfoldr - Organize gdoc and hackpad documents for hackathons.
  • Quill - A registration system designed especially for large hackathons, maintained by HackMIT.
  • LaraHack - Administration system designed especially for hackathons and similar competitions.
  • Ninjathon - Hackathon managing platform.
  • Pepper - Designed to work with MyMLH for sign in.
  • Sledge - A judging system for hackathons developed at Rutgers University.
  • React Hackathon Board - Web application to manage Hackathon events.
  • VersusVirus App - For managing teams at large online hackathons.

Organisations

Companies that provide products and services for, or regularly organise, hackathons.

Tooling

These are frameworks, utilities and online tools for solving a variety of issues that hackathon organizers commonly face. They often have some way of integrating with the platforms above. See also the Guides listed further down, which cover many of the same topics.

Organizing

Promoting

  • Hackathon Sponsorship 🕶️ A crowdsourced 'Awesome List' of companies to contact.
  • Hackalist - A list of upcoming hackathons from around the world.
  • Hack Club - A curated list of hackathons organized for high schoolers.
  • Open Source Events - This website contains a monthly calendar of events and hackathons (project is archived as of Feb 5, 2024).
  • Upcoding - Get event details of competitive programming contests, hackathons etc.

Teambuilding

Coaching

  • HELPq - Queue application with interfaces for mentors and hackers to answer/submit questions, respectively.
  • Hangar - A Slack bot to help with judging and coaching at hackathons.
  • Leadership & Governance - Handbook for open source project, that also applies well for hackathon teams.
  • TreeHacks Slack Mentorship System - A Slack bot that queues requests in a #mentors channel (unmaintained as of 2015).

Evaluating

Guides

These are helpful handbooks, literature collections and articles that will give you some orientation, and help you to prepare a plan for organizing your event.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please read the guidelines first. Make sure to provide a name, link, description, in alphabetical order, in the appropriate section. Don't worry about making a mistake: your Pull Request will be an opportunity to discuss and make amends.

Footnotes

This repo is made with generator-awesome-list by Darshak Parikh and ❤️ motivated by awesome-hackathons by Camille Considine.

Licensed CC0 - Creative Commons Public Domain