About the challenge
Welcome to HackForge — where bold ideas are forged into powerful tech!
This hackathon invites developers, designers, and innovators from all backgrounds to build impactful, creative, and technically sound solutions to real-world challenges. Whether you're crafting AI-powered tools, health tech apps, climate solutions, or next-gen hardware, HackForge is your launchpad.
Get started
- Form a team or fly solo
- Brainstorm, prototype, and pitch
- Submit your project before the deadline
- Win prizes, earn recognition, and maybe even build your next startup
Requirements
What to Build
Participants can build any kind of tech solution that solves a real problem. This could be a website, app, game, hardware device, or AI-powered tool. Projects will be judged on creativity, usefulness, and execution.
What to Submit
Teams must submit a video or live demo of the project, a GitHub link or codebase, a short write-up explaining what the project does, how it works, and who is on the team.
Prizes
1st Place Winner
3 Gen.xyz domains
Personalized mentoring sessions with judges
Winner certificate
2nd Place
1 Gen.xyz domain
Personalized mentoring sessions with Judges
Winner certificate
3rd Place
1 Gen .xyz domain
Personalized mentoring sessions with judges
Winner certificate
Honorable Mention
Personalized mentoring sessions with judges
Achievement certificate
Participants prize
15 .xyz domains worth $10 each for the first 20 people to claim them on the discord server.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Sparsh Jain
AI-Driven Automation & IoT Specialist
Chirag Agarwal
Senior engineer at Amazon
Jeet Mehta
SDE at Netflix
Skanda Suresh
Machine learning engineer at Tinder
Venkata Padma Kumar Vemuri
Senior Principal Software Developer at Oracle
Jay Nankani
Software Developer at Redfin
Suhas Holla Karkada Chandrashekar
Senior Software Engineer at Pangolin Laser Systems,Inc
Pratik Sheth
Technical Lead, Software Applications at Google
Nishant Prakash
Senior software engineer at Oracle
Ahan Jose
designer and prompt engineering specialist
Vedant Wankede
Ideation Specialist
Judging Criteria
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Innovation
Is the project original, creative, or solving a problem in a new way? -
Technical Execution
How well is the project built? Does it demonstrate good coding, architecture, or hardware use? -
Real-World Impact
Does the solution address a genuine problem or need? Can it be applied in real scenarios? -
Design and Usability
Is the interface clean, user-friendly, and thoughtfully designed? -
Presentation and Clarity
Is the demo clear and effective? Does the team explain the idea and functionality well?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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