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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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon), hackdays and hacknights, and the community of organizers who run them! If you are 
▐ looking for tools to use as a _participant_ of a hackathon, see Awesome Hackathon Starters (https://github.com/geekcamp-ph/awesome-hackathon-starters). To enhance this list, please refer to
▐ the Contributing (#Contributing) section.

Contents

- Platforms (#platforms)
- Tooling (#tooling)
- Guides (#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. 

- Dribdat (https://github.com/dribdat/dribdat) - Hackathons with impact, based on open data and web standards.
- HackAssistant (https://github.com/HackAssistant/hackassistant) - Hackathon registration server.
- HackDash (https://github.com/impronunciable/hackdash) - Organize hackaton ideas into a dashboard.
- HackPortal (https://github.com/acmutd/hackportal) - A platform from HackUTD for user-friendly event management.
- Hibiscus (https://github.com/HackSC/hibiscus) - An all-in-one, plug-and-play hackathon platform, created for HackSC.
- JunctionApp (https://github.com/hackjunction/JunctionApp) -  All-in-one hackathon platform for organisers, maintained by Junction.
- OpenHackathon (https://github.com/kaiyuanshe/OpenHackathon-Web) - Platform with Git-based Cloud Development Environment based on Next.js.
- Civic Tech Exchange (https://github.com/DemocracyLab/CivicTechExchange) - Online platform for Democracy Lab projects.

Closed Source 🔒

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

- Agorize (https://github.com/agorize) - A French company that provides open innovation software.
- Devfolio (https://github.com/devfolioco) - Supporting India's 'largest and fastest growing community of builders'.
- Devpost (https://github.com/challengepost) - U.S. company whose customers market developer tools and jobs to the community.
- TAIKAI (https://github.com/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 (https://github.com/Find-Hackathon) - A Cross-Platform Mobile Application for finding Hackathons.
- Hackathon Manager (https://github.com/codeRIT/hackathon-manager) -  All-in-one platform for hackathon registration & logistics.
- Hackfoldr (https://github.com/hackfoldr/hackfoldr) - Organize gdoc and hackpad documents for hackathons.
- Quill (https://github.com/techx/quill) - A registration system designed especially for large hackathons, maintained by HackMIT.
- LaraHack (https://github.com/ScientificClubofESI/LaraHack) - Administration system designed especially for hackathons and similar competitions.
- Ninjathon (https://github.com/shilomagen/hackathon-matching-platform) - Hackathon managing platform.
- VersusVirus App (https://github.com/VersusVirus-Hackathons/VersusVirus-App) - For managing teams at large online hackathons.

Organisations

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

- Eventornado (https://eventornado.com/) provides an all-in-one platform for organising a hackathon.
- Hackathon.com (https://hackathon.com/) from BeMyApp Corporation (https://www.bemyapp.com/organize-your-hackathon.html) promotes events globally, and offers commercial services 
(https://corporate.hackathon.com/).
- HackerEarth (https://www.hackerearth.com/) is a commercial platform for sourcing, assessing, interviewing, and upskilling developers.
- Hack2Skill (https://hack2skill.com) hosts events on their own platform (https://hack2skill.com/organizeHack) and shares resources 
(https://blog.hack2skill.com/what-is-a-hackathon-a-complete-guide-about-hackathon) for technology innovators.
- HYPE (https://www.hypeinnovation.com/en/about) provides software to help idea and innovation managers collect and manage ideas.
- Mercer | Mettl (https://mettl.com/about/) sees hackathons as a tool (https://mettl.com/online-hackathons/) for building tech teams and fostering collaboration.
- Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/blog/category/hackathons/) sponsors and organises hackathons, and offers advice 
(https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/adoption/hackathons) for using their products to run an event.
- Random Hacks of Kindness (https://github.com/randomhacks) was a global hackathon series for charities, non-profits and social enterprise (see also: RHOK, Jr. (https://rhokjr.org/) and RHOK 
CPH (https://www.rhok-cph.org/)).
- Tulula (https://tulu.la/hackathons-and-challenges) runs online competitions and hackathons based on an online platform (https://tulula.gitbook.io/docs/setup-guide/quick-start).
- Unstop (https://unstop.com/) provides virtual event platforms to organize hackathons and coding tests.

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 (#guides) listed further down, which cover many of the same topics.

Organizing

- BoilerBot (https://github.com/BoilerMake/boilerbot) - Take control of your Slack by creating groups, assigning tasks, and more.
- Hubot-RedisRed (https://github.com/Detry322/hubot-redisred) - As well as hubot-group (https://github.com/anishathalye/hubot-group), hubot-conf (https://github.com/anishathalye/hubot-conf), 
hubot-shortcut (https://github.com/anishathalye/hubot-shortcut) by HackMIT are Hubot (https://hubot.github.com/) plugins to make organizing easier.
- Planning Kit (https://hackathon-planning-kit.org/) - Get information about how to design a hackathon that fits your needs.

Promoting

- Hackathon Sponsorship (https://github.com/Neuro-Hack/sponsorship#readme) 🕶️  A crowdsourced 'Awesome List' of companies to contact.
- Hackalist (https://github.com/Hackalist/Hackalist.github.io#readme) - A list of upcoming hackathons from around the world. 
- Hack Club (https://github.com/hackclub/hackathons#readme) - A curated list of hackathons organized for high schoolers.
- Open Source Events (https://github.com/Catalyst-IN/OpenSourceEvents-Frontend) - This website contains a monthly calendar of events and hackathons.
- Upcoding (https://github.com/sahanmndl/UpCoding-Web) - Get event details of competitive programming contests, hackathons etc.

Teambuilding

- Dridbot (https://github.com/dribdat/dridbot) - Multiplatform chatbot, for pepping up the experience for participants and organizers of hackathons.
- Steps to Building an Effective Team (https://hr.berkeley.edu/hr-network/central-guide-managing-hr/managing-hr/interaction/team-building/steps) - A bullet-point list from UC Berkley.
- Team Builder for MS Teams (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/healthcare-and-life-sciences/hackathon-team-builder-a-teams-tab-application/ba-p/3334437) - Sample app that allows 
hackathon participants to form a team based on challenges they want to tackle.
- Team building activities (https://www.sessionlab.com/blog/team-building-activities/) - 64 fun ideas from SessionLab.

Coaching

- HELPq (https://github.com/ehzhang/helpq) - Queue application with interfaces for mentors and hackers to answer/submit questions, respectively.
- Hangar (https://github.com/AmericanAirlines/Hangar) - A Slack bot to help with judging and coaching at hackathons.
- Treehacks-MentorBot (https://github.com/TreeHacks/slack-mentorship) - Slackbot that provides mentors a channel to claim help requests and attendees to submit help requests within slack. 
Queues requests in a #mentors channel.
- Leadership & Governance (https://opensource.guide/leadership-and-governance/) - Handbook for open source project, that also applies well for hackathon teams.

Evaluating

- @CivicWhitaker Anthology (https://smartchicagocollaborative.org/launch-the-civicwhitaker-anthology/) - Evaluates three years of organizing hackathons in Chicago civic tech.
- Eventflare's Journal (https://eventflare.io/journal/crafting-effective-hackathon-judging-criteria-a-step-by-step-guide) - Strategies for determining criteria & recruiting judges 
(https://eventflare.io/journal/how-to-select-the-right-hackathon-judges-for-your-event).
- Expo Table app (https://github.com/nealrs/expo#fork-destination-box) - Create a Devpost Expo table frontend.
- Gavel (https://github.com/anishathalye/gavel) - A project expo judging system by HackMIT that uses fancy math to get good results.

Guides

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

- Dribdat wiki (https://github.com/dribdat/docs/wiki) - Community sourced guidelines from an open source project.
- GitHub Guide to Hackathons (https://hackathons.github.com/) - Join a community connected by code, with tips & tricks from GitHub.
- Hackathon Guidelines - Opendata.ch (https://opendata.ch/guidelines) - Principles for hackathons from the Swiss open data community.
- Hackathon Hackers Guide (https://github.com/HackathonHackers/Hackathon-Resources/blob/master/RESOURCES.md) - Collection of high quality hackathon resources. See also Etiquette 
(https://medium.com/hackathon-hackers/hackathon-hackers-etiquette-cbcb9d1cda54#.dmgz1wp4y) and Subgroups (https://github.com/HackathonHackers/groups).
- Hackathon.guide (https://github.com/JoshData/hackathon.guide) - A step-by-step guide by seasoned organizer Joshua Tauberer.
- Hackathon Leitfaden (https://github.com/okfde/hackathon-leitfaden) - (In German) Printed guide for municipalities.
- Hackday Manifesto (https://github.com/hackdaymanifesto/site) - How to make your event a success, and avoid common pitfalls.
- hack.athon.uk (https://hack.athon.uk/) - A wiki for helping hackers get into hackathons and organise them! 
- Handbuch Jugend-Hackathons (https://handbuch.jugendhackt.de/) - (In German) An in-depth guide to organizing youth events.
- Mattermost Handbook (https://handbook.mattermost.com/contributors/contributors/how-to-run-a-hackathon) - Practical guidelines from the open source Mattermost chat server.
- McKinsey: Demystifying the hackathon (https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/demystifying-the-hackathon) - For digital transformation of large organizations.
- Mediawiki Handbook (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook) - Suggestions from the Mediawiki community (which powers Wikipedia).
- MLH Organizer Guide (https://github.com/MLH/mlh-hackathon-organizer-guide) - Guide from Major League Hacking, popular at US schools.
- OpenDataLab.eu Handbook (http://handbook.opendatalab.eu/) - Open 4 Citizens hackathon handbook from an EU project.
- Ultimate Ethereum Hackathon Survival Guide (https://consensys.net/developers/ultimate-hackathon-survival-guide/) - From a popular Web3 community.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please read the guidelines (contributing.md) 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 (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-your-first-pull-request-on-github-3/) will be an opportunity to discuss and make amends.

Footnotes

This repo is made with generator-awesome-list (https://github.com/dar5hak/generator-awesome-list) by Darshak Parikh and :heart: motivated by awesome-hackathons 
(https://github.com/cconsidine/awesome-hackathons) by Camille Considine.

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