Changelog
What's new on Hackathon Radar
Every notable feature and improvement we've shipped, newest first.
Jun 2026
Hack Passport — your public hackathon profile
Explore Hack PassportHack Passport turns your scattered hackathon history into one credible profile. Track every event you've hacked, judged, mentored, organized, sponsored or spoken at, and collect a stamp for each one as your record builds up over time.
It's multi-role by design, because most people in this scene wear more than one hat across a year. The result is a single public link you can drop in a bio or an application that shows the full shape of your involvement, not just the weekends you happened to win.
Jun 2026
Welcome email for new signups
New accounts now get a proper welcome on signup instead of landing on an empty dashboard. The email orients you around what Hackathon Radar does and points you at the first few things worth doing.
It's a gentler first run: rather than figuring the product out cold, a brand-new builder gets a short map of where to start and what's worth their time.
Jun 2026
Globe events preview on the homepage
Open the mapThe homepage hero now previews real, live events on an interactive globe rather than a static graphic. It's an immediate sense of scale: hackathons happening all over the world, refreshed as new events ingest.
We lightened the surrounding effects and refreshed the call to action so the path from landing to browsing is shorter. See an event spin past that catches your eye and you're one click from the full database.
May 2026
Get alerts when new hackathons match your search
Set up a saved searchSave any search you've built — a region, a tech stack, a minimum prize pool — and Hackathon Radar will watch it for you. The moment a new hackathon matches, you get pinged, so you stop having to re-run the same search every few days.
Alerts reach you wherever you already are: email, Slack or Discord. Set up one saved search per thing you care about and let the matches come to you instead.
May 2026
Broader hackathon coverage
Browse the databaseWe widened the net considerably, adding far more events across web3, ML and general builder hackathons. The database now spans a much bigger slice of what's actually happening each week.
Everything arrives normalized — consistent dates, prize pools, locations and tags — so a listing reads the same no matter where it originated, and you can search and filter across all of it in one place.
May 2026
The State of Hackathons report
Read the reportAn editorial, data-driven essay on where hackathons are heading, built on top of everything we ingest. It pulls the database into a single narrative about format shifts, prize-pool trends and the steady takeover of AI themes.
The centrepiece is a scrollable timeline that walks through the eras year by year, paired with a hi-res world map and a set of charts. It's the page the changelog you're reading borrows its look from.
May 2026
A smoother sign-in and sign-up
Create an accountSigning in and creating an account now happen right here, on pages styled to match the rest of the product, instead of bouncing you off to a separate-looking screen.
The result is a calmer first run: fewer jarring jumps, a consistent layout, and no moment where you wonder if you've landed somewhere you didn't mean to.
May 2026
Hackathon links that look good everywhere
Drop a hackathon link in Slack, X or a group chat and it now unfurls into a proper preview card — title, image and detail — instead of a bare URL nobody clicks.
Pages also load faster and are far easier to find through search, so more hackathons turn up when people are looking, not just when they're already on the site.