awesome-hackathon

ApplicantAtlas

Made for managing applicants, RSVPs and other communications

Civic Tech Exchange

Online platform for Democracy Lab projects

DeltaHacks Portal

The attendee & admin portal for DeltaHacks 10, the hackathon for change

Dribdat

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Hack the Back

An elegant backend, with ready-made GraphQL and REST endpoints

HackAssistant

Hackathon registration server

Hackatuning

Early stage hackathon management platform

HackathonManager

Hackathon registration & logistics, compatible with MyMLH

HackDash

Organize hackaton ideas into a dashboard

Hackerspace3

Competition Management System for the GovHack Hackathon

HackPortal

A platform from HackUTD for user-friendly event management

Halo

Hackathon Management System built on Django

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

Skills-Based Volunteering for Social Good, matching people to projects

project-hackathon

Hackathon management tool created at Hackafor

A French company that provides open innovation software

Supporting India's 'largest and fastest growing community of builders'

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

( ) - Open innovation challenge platform from experienced event organizers in Canada

( ) - Internal hackathon and ideation, with cloud provisioning and judging features

Connects creators and companies, using hackathons, bounties and hiring challenges

chronicel

A minimal registration system for a smaller, more personal hackathon

A Cross-Platform Mobile Application for finding Hackathons

Hackfoldr

Organize gdoc and hackpad documents for hackathons

Kent Hack Enough

Legacy registration and staff management API for HackSU events

LaraHack

Administration system designed for hackathons and similar competitions

Ninjathon

Hackathon managing platform

Nucleus

Hackathon application system that integrates with MyMLH, Slack and more from HackTX

Pepper

Designed to work with MyMLH for sign in

Quill

A registration system designed especially for large hackathons, maintained by HackMIT

React Hackathon Board

Web application to manage Hackathon events

Scout24

Hackathon management system from a company

Sledge

A judging system for hackathons developed at Rutgers University

VersusVirus App

For managing teams at large online hackathons

is an interdisciplinary community exploring scientific collaboration, learning & civic engagement

hosts events on their and for technology innovators

from promotes events globally, and offers

is a commercial platform for sourcing, assessing, interviewing, and upskilling developers

provides software to help idea and innovation managers collect and manage ideas

sees for building tech teams and fostering collaboration

sponsors and for hackathons - see the repo for participants

global hackathon series for charities, non-profits and social enterprise (see also: and )

runs online competitions and hackathons based on an

provides virtual event platforms to organize hackathons and coding tests

BoilerBot

Take control of your Slack by creating groups, assigning tasks, and more

Hackme

(unmaintained?) - Minimalistic hackathon registration and participant status monitoring

HaQR

(unmaintained) - A modular QR code management system for hackathons and other events

Hubot-RedisRed

As well as , , by HackMIT are plugins to make organizing easier

Get information about how to design a hackathon that fits your needs

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

Scrapbook

by HackClub - A daily streak system & portfolio for your projects

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

Dridbot

Multiplatform chatbot, for pepping up the experience for participants and organizers of hackathons

A bullet-point list from UC Berkley

Sample app that allows hackathon participants to form a team based on challenges they want to tackle

64 fun ideas from SessionLab

volunTree

Volunteer Management System for DSC Hack4Good Hackathon

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

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)

Evaluates three years of organizing hackathons in Chicago civic tech

Strategies for determining criteria &

Expo Table app

Create a Devpost Expo table frontend

Gavel

A project expo judging system by HackMIT that uses fancy math to get good results

Rankeer

An elaborate student project about management and evaluation of hackathons

Dribdat wiki

Community sourced guidelines from an open source project

Join a community connected by code, with tips & tricks from GitHub

A wiki for helping hackers get into hackathons and organise them!

Principles for hackathons from the Swiss open data community

Hackathon Hackers Guide

Collection of high quality hackathon resources. See also and

Hackathon Leitfaden

(In German) Printed guide for municipalities

Suggests technical tools by stage of hackathon development

Hackathon.guide

A step-by-step guide by seasoned organizer Joshua Tauberer

Hackday Manifesto

How to make your event a success, and avoid common pitfalls

Theodoros Ploumis has great advice for attendees, evaluators and organizers

(In German) An in-depth guide to organizing youth events

Practical guidelines from the open source Mattermost chat server

For digital transformation of large organizations

Suggestions from the Mediawiki community (which powers Wikipedia)

MLH Organizer Guide

Guide from Major League Hacking, popular at US schools

A short and tidy list of hackathon software that overlaps with the one you're reading now

Open 4 Citizens hackathon handbook from an EU project

From a popular Web3 community

A web library of references on research into the Impacts, Landscape, Motivation and Organizing of hackathons