The Global
Hackathon Database
The most comprehensive public index of hackathons, with 13,257 tracked across 118 countries, refreshed daily. From weekend jams to million-dollar flagships. Discover, filter and track the right event, or plug the whole dataset into your own product.
One dataset, four ways in
An intelligence platform for the whole hackathon ecosystem
Every event quality-scored and enriched with structured metadata. Whatever you came for, start here.
Find a hackathon
Search, filter and track every event worldwide. Quality-scored, so you skip the duds.
Browse the databaseSponsor hackathons
Reach hackers at scale: sponsor directories, featured placements and audience data.
Sponsor solutionsBuild on the data
Enterprise API, MCP and webhooks. Normalized hackathon data, straight into your tools.
Developer hubExplore the ecosystem
Prize pools, geography, sponsor dynasties: annual data essays on the whole scene.
State of HackathonsFrom the blog
Hackathon data, guides and community
What We Learned Adding Friction to Our Onboarding
The obvious way to onboard someone is to get out of their way. We did the opposite — we added a few deliberate steps before the payoff — and it made the first session far better. Here is what worked and why.
4 min readWho Is Actually in the Room? Why We Built Estimated Audience Profiles
Sponsors do not pick events by headcount. They pick by who shows up. So we built a way to estimate that for every hackathon.
3 min readThe Most Active Hackathon Cities in the World
The most active hackathon cities are not just the places with the most developers. They are the places where universities, sponsors, venues, and organiser networks compound.
3 min read