What's new on Hackathon Radar

Pro Plus sits between Dev Pro and Enterprise. It adds organizer contact details on every event, the full organizer directory, and Google Sheets sync, for judges, mentors and organizers who need to reach event teams without a full sponsorship toolkit.

Everything in Dev Pro is included: the full calendar of upcoming events, custom view alerts, judge accessibility scores and CSV export. Upgrade from the pricing page or from any locked section on an event.

There is now a dedicated Europe page for people who want to browse hackathons across the region without jumping country by country. It covers EU countries, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the Nordics and other major European hubs.

The page gives European builders a cleaner starting point, with upcoming events, prize signals, categories and format breakdowns in one view. It also links out to focused European topic pages for AI, social impact, data science, fintech, health and climate hackathons.

The homepage now opens with a live view of hackathons you can act on right away: what's open now, what's starting soon, what's new this week and what is closest to you.

It also gives newcomers a cleaner path into the rest of Hackathon Radar, from curated browsing and quality signals to sponsor tools and community updates, without making you dig through the database first.

Country pages show you when hackathon season actually is in a given country — the busiest and quietest months, the cities that host the most, and the platforms organisers there use to list. Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Finland and Poland now have theirs.

These pages already worked if you knew the URL; they just weren't listed anywhere, so nobody found them. Italy alone tracks more upcoming hackathons than any European city we cover except London.

Every other list on Discover sorts by when a hackathon runs. This one sorts by when we found it. It shows hackathons our ingestion first picked up in the last 7 days that are live now or start within the next 7 days — the things that appeared out of nowhere and are already about to happen.

That's usually where the late-announced local events, the one-off company jams and the newly listed university hackathons show up. Two clocks have to line up: found this week, running this week. Everything on the page is free to view, and it refreshes as new events land.

Six new tools, free to use. Organizers can score how good their hackathon listing looks to participants and sponsors, see what comparable events actually award in prizes, and check a date before committing to it. Sponsors can weigh up whether an event is worth backing. Hackers can find events that suit them, or check whether one is worth a weekend.

Every number comes from the hackathons we already track, so you get real comparisons rather than a rule of thumb: what similar events pay out, how far ahead they announce, how many people they draw. Each answer becomes its own shareable report. A free account gets you three runs a day on each tool.

Most people can't take a week off to hack. There's now a page for the ones that fit around a job or a course: short-format events, three days or less end to end, that actually run across a Saturday or Sunday. Friday night to Sunday demo, or a single Saturday jam — build it, ship it, back at your desk on Monday.

The list is worked out from each event's real start and end dates, so a three-day event running Tuesday to Thursday doesn't sneak in. Events with no end date stay out rather than being guessed at. It refreshes as new hackathons appear and sits alongside the other curated lists on Discover.

Want something you can join from your laptop, the real thing with teammates in the room, or just whatever's on right now? There are three new pages: online & virtual hackathons you can enter from anywhere, in-person hackathons at real venues, and hackathons happening this week — live now or starting within 7 days.

All three sit alongside the other curated lists on Discover, refresh as new events appear, and carry the full FAQ and structured data so they're easy to find on search.