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.

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Contents

• Platforms
• Tooling
• Guides

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.

• Civic Tech Exchange - Online platform for Democracy Lab projects.
• DeltaHacks Portal - The attendee & admin portal for DeltaHacks 10, the hackathon for change.
• Dribdat - Hackathons for impact, based on open data and web standards. python js
• Hack the Back - An elegant backend, with ready-made GraphQL and REST endpoints.
• Hackathon Management System - A comprehensive WordPress plugin by Teplitsa. php
• Hackerspace3 - Competition Management System for the GovHack Hackathon. ruby
• 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.
• Opportunity Hack - Skills-Based Volunteering for Social Good, matching people to projects.

Closed Source 🔒

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

• Agorize (www) - A French company that provides open innovation software.
• Devfolio (www) - Supporting India's 'largest and fastest growing community of builders'.
• Devpost (www) - Recognizable U.S. company, whose customers market developer tools and jobs to the community.
• HackHQ - All-in-one hackathon management platform for internal corporate hackathons with registration, submissions, judging, voting, and live results in 30 minutes.
• HackHub (www, docs) - Canadian company with a featureful event and talent scouting app.
• Hackworks (docs) - Open innovation challenge platform from experienced event organizers in Canada.
• Nosu (formerly Sprint.dev) - AI tools to manage hackathons, aiming to upend tech recruiting by quantifying hackathon performance.
• Stackref (docs) - Internal hackathon and ideation, with cloud provisioning and judging features.
• TAIKAI (www) - Connects creators and companies, using hackathons, bounties and hiring challenges.

Inactive 🧊

These projects, while open source, are not showing signs of active maintenance (a release in the past year). Please contact us if you think otherwise! They might need your help, or have valuable content that could be reused.

• ApplicantAtlas - Made for managing applicants, RSVPs and other communications.
• chronicel - A minimal registration system for a smaller, more personal hackathon.