DOGFOOD 2026 — Build the Open-Source Platform That Will Judge You

DOGFOOD runs September 25 to 28, 2026, online and free, with a $2,500 prize pool. Every team builds the same product: the submission and judging platform Hackathon Raptors will actually run on. Open source, self-hosted, production-ready in 72 hours. If we cannot run it, we cannot adopt it, and every rule of the event is downstream of that one. Every submission is reviewed against four published criteria on a five-point scale: Tier Completion & Correctness (40%), Judging Integrity (25%), Adoptability & Operability (20%), and Code Quality & Innovation (15%). Submissions must be OSI-approved open source, new code only, running from a single command, with no hosted-service dependency. Registration is open at dogfoodhack.com.