awesome-hackathon

Hackathon platform directory

A curated list of platforms and tools for organizing hackathons.

Platforms, tools, and guides for critical organizers 🌆

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Awesome Hackathon / Platforms / Open Source 🌳

ApplicantAtlas 20 7 months ago Made for managing applicants, RSVPs and other communications
Civic Tech Exchange 97 4 months ago Online platform for Democracy Lab projects
DeltaHacks Portal 12 4 months ago The attendee & admin portal for DeltaHacks 10, the hackathon for change
Dribdat 66 4 months ago -
Hack the Back 4 6 months ago An elegant backend, with ready-made GraphQL and REST endpoints
HackAssistant 6 about 1 year ago Hackathon registration server
Hackatuning 10 over 2 years ago Early stage hackathon management platform
HackathonManager 30 6 months ago Hackathon registration & logistics, compatible with MyMLH
HackDash 70 over 1 year ago Organize hackaton ideas into a dashboard
Hackerspace3 21 6 months ago Competition Management System for the GovHack Hackathon
HackPortal 40 6 months ago A platform from HackUTD for user-friendly event management
Halo 7 4 months ago Hackathon Management System built on Django
Hibiscus 45 5 months ago An all-in-one, plug-and-play hackathon platform, created for HackSC
JunctionApp 63 4 months ago All-in-one hackathon platform for organisers, maintained by Junction
OpenHackathon 11 5 months ago Platform with Git-based Cloud Development Environment based on Next.js
Opportunity Hack Skills-Based Volunteering for Social Good, matching people to projects
project-hackathon 50 over 1 year ago Hackathon management tool created at Hackafor

Awesome Hackathon / Platforms / Closed Source 🔒

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 2 almost 2 years ago A fullstack suite of apps from Devtranet for hosting virtual hackathons
Hackworks ( ) - Open innovation challenge platform from experienced event organizers in Canada
Stackref ( ) - Internal hackathon and ideation, with cloud provisioning and judging features
TAIKAI Connects creators and companies, using hackathons, bounties and hiring challenges

Awesome Hackathon / Platforms / Unmaintained 🧊

chronicel 19 over 6 years ago A minimal registration system for a smaller, more personal hackathon
Find Hackathon A Cross-Platform Mobile Application for finding Hackathons
Hackfoldr 411 over 3 years ago Organize gdoc and hackpad documents for hackathons
Kent Hack Enough 6 about 2 years ago Legacy registration and staff management API for HackSU events
LaraHack 120 about 2 years ago Administration system designed for hackathons and similar competitions
Ninjathon 5 about 6 years ago Hackathon managing platform
Nucleus 51 about 9 years ago Hackathon application system that integrates with MyMLH, Slack and more from HackTX
Pepper 26 over 2 years ago Designed to work with MyMLH for sign in
Quill 447 over 2 years ago A registration system designed especially for large hackathons, maintained by HackMIT
React Hackathon Board 8 over 7 years ago Web application to manage Hackathon events
Scout24 3 over 4 years ago Hackathon management system from a company
Sledge 12 over 1 year ago A judging system for hackathons developed at Rutgers University
VersusVirus App 4 almost 5 years ago For managing teams at large online hackathons

Awesome Hackathon / Platforms / Organisations

Hack the Hackathon is an interdisciplinary community exploring scientific collaboration, learning & civic engagement
Hack2Skill hosts events on their and for technology innovators
Hackathon.com from promotes events globally, and offers
HackerEarth is a commercial platform for sourcing, assessing, interviewing, and upskilling developers
HYPE provides software to help idea and innovation managers collect and manage ideas
Mercer | Mettl sees for building tech teams and fostering collaboration
Microsoft sponsors and for hackathons - see the repo for participants
Random Hacks of Kindness global hackathon series for charities, non-profits and social enterprise (see also: and )
Tulula runs online competitions and hackathons based on an
Unstop provides virtual event platforms to organize hackathons and coding tests

Awesome Hackathon / Tooling / Organizing

BoilerBot 1 about 6 years ago Take control of your Slack by creating groups, assigning tasks, and more
Hackme 0 4 months ago (unmaintained?) - Minimalistic hackathon registration and participant status monitoring
HaQR 8 about 5 years ago (unmaintained) - A modular QR code management system for hackathons and other events
Hubot-RedisRed 12 over 8 years ago As well as , , by HackMIT are plugins to make organizing easier
Planning Kit Get information about how to design a hackathon that fits your needs

Awesome Hackathon / Tooling / Promoting

Hackathon Sponsorship 50 over 7 years ago 🕶️ A crowdsourced 'Awesome List' of companies to contact
Hackalist 482 7 months ago A list of upcoming hackathons from around the world
Hack Club 149 5 months ago A curated list of hackathons organized for high schoolers
Scrapbook 175 4 months ago by HackClub - A daily streak system & portfolio for your projects
Open Source Events 64 over 2 years ago This website contains a monthly calendar of events and hackathons (project is archived as of Feb 5, 2024)
Upcoding 14 over 1 year ago Get event details of competitive programming contests, hackathons etc

Awesome Hackathon / Tooling / Teambuilding

Dridbot 0 4 months ago Multiplatform chatbot, for pepping up the experience for participants and organizers of hackathons
Steps to Building an Effective Team A bullet-point list from UC Berkley
Team Builder for MS Teams Sample app that allows hackathon participants to form a team based on challenges they want to tackle
Team building activities 64 fun ideas from SessionLab
volunTree 0 about 1 year ago Volunteer Management System for DSC Hack4Good Hackathon

Awesome Hackathon / Tooling / Coaching

HELPq 266 about 5 years ago Queue application with interfaces for mentors and hackers to answer/submit questions, respectively
Hangar 39 11 months ago 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 1 over 9 years ago A Slack bot that queues requests in a #mentors channel (unmaintained as of 2015)

Awesome Hackathon / Tooling / Evaluating

@CivicWhitaker Anthology Evaluates three years of organizing hackathons in Chicago civic tech
Eventflare's Journal Strategies for determining criteria &
Expo Table app 54 almost 8 years ago Create a Devpost Expo table frontend
Gavel 445 4 months ago A project expo judging system by HackMIT that uses fancy math to get good results
Rankeer 11 over 3 years ago An elaborate student project about management and evaluation of hackathons

Awesome Hackathon / Guides

Dribdat wiki 0 4 months ago Community sourced guidelines from an open source project
GitHub Guide to Hackathons Join a community connected by code, with tips & tricks from GitHub
hack.athon.uk A wiki for helping hackers get into hackathons and organise them!
Hackathon Guidelines - Opendata.ch Principles for hackathons from the Swiss open data community
Hackathon Hackers Guide 27 over 9 years ago Collection of high quality hackathon resources. See also and
Hackathon Leitfaden 13 over 3 years ago (In German) Printed guide for municipalities
Hackathon Toolbox Suggests technical tools by stage of hackathon development
Hackathon.guide 176 almost 5 years ago A step-by-step guide by seasoned organizer Joshua Tauberer
Hackday Manifesto 403 9 months ago How to make your event a success, and avoid common pitfalls
Hack Tools Theodoros Ploumis has great advice for attendees, evaluators and organizers
Handbuch Jugend-Hackathons (In German) An in-depth guide to organizing youth events
Mattermost Handbook Practical guidelines from the open source Mattermost chat server
McKinsey: Demystifying the hackathon For digital transformation of large organizations
Mediawiki Handbook Suggestions from the Mediawiki community (which powers Wikipedia)
MLH Organizer Guide 321 4 months ago Guide from Major League Hacking, popular at US schools
MLH Software for Hackathons A short and tidy list of hackathon software that overlaps with the one you're reading now
OpenDataLab.eu Handbook Open 4 Citizens hackathon handbook from an EU project
Ultimate Ethereum Hackathon Survival Guide From a popular Web3 community
Zotero - Awesome Hackathon A web library of references on research into the Impacts, Landscape, Motivation and Organizing of hackathons

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