About the Challenge
Hackonomics™ 2026 allows individuals passionate about finance, economics, and computer science in our community to fuse the aforementioned principles via projects with the potential to have a positive impact on our community.
Current Prize Pool Value: $10,500 USD
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View Hackonomics 2025 & Hackonomics 2024
Getting Started
Brainstorm project ideas, approaches to outreach, and potential impact. Additionally, join the discord server for more details on the event.
Requirements
What to Build
Create an innovative project, product, business, or idea that would help spread awareness about financial literacy and economics in the community.
This Hackathon is open-ended and beginner-friendly hackathon and allows submissions covering the wide range of economic or financial topics. We also allow submissions in all mediums and different stages of development.
What to Submit
A YouTube video or Google Drive video describing your project (1-2 Minutes Recommended, 5 Minutes Maximum) and a document of the source program (any medium). Designs, prototypes, and submissions from Hackonomics 2025 & 2024 are permitted. See criteria for more information.
Prizes
First Place
Most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.
Second Place
Second most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.
Third Place
Third most effective in satisfying criteria of all submitted projects.
Design Award
Incorporates a sleek, user-friendly, and polished design, maximizing accessibility of project content. (May be a Figma-based project or prototype.) Top two in presentation category.
Technical Award
Projects that demonstrate the best application by using data and integration to create a comprehensive app that covers all aspects of the project's task. Top two projects in the technical execution category.
Total Value of Prizes
Each winning project's team will be the recipients of:
Momen.app $1,500 credit
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Atharv Patil
Hackathon operations & logistics manager
Eytan Grumberg
Hackathon outreach & membership manager
Pankaj Verma
Senior Data Scientist at Shell
Dylan Lee
Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs
Sreeja Apparaju
Machine Engineer at Snapchat
Shreyas Sharma
Senior Software Developer at American Crystal Sugar Company
Pearl Li
Founder of Read Bean
Bhanuprakash Madupati
Senior Software Engineer at Minnesota DOC
Igor Piatkov
Software Engineer & Founder of 1Certify
Tony Chang
Software Engineer at Databricks
Mukeshkumar Khaniya
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Pulkit Goel
Staff Software Engineer at Activision Blizzard(Microsoft)
Nikita Baryshev
Senior Software Developer at Check Point Cyber Security
Saurabh Aggarwal
Principal Data Scientist at Autodesk
Rajesh Sura
Head of Engineering and Analytics at Amazon
Prashanthi Matam
Full Stack Engineer/Senior Software Engineer
Nimit Patel
Principle Data Scientist at McKinsey & Company
Rishab Bansal
Senior Software Developer at Tesla
Deepak Giri
Executive Director at Wells Fargo
Bhoomi Patel
Software Engineer at Meta
Subhash Chandra Bose Naripeddy
Technical Lead, Engineer at Meta
Albert Lie
Co-founder of SF VC-backed AI startup/Founding Engineer and Tech Lead
Judging Criteria
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Relevancy
How well does the project address the theme of economics and financial literacy while combining code? Does it also include an element of educating others on the topic? -
Technical Execution
How well is the project built? Does it demonstrate a high level of technical proficiency, scalability, and efficiency? Is the implementation technically sound? -
Presentation
How visually appealing and user-friendly is the project? Is the design intuitive, with a clear and attractive user interface, thoughtful color schemes, and a seamless user experience? -
Impact
What is the potential impact of the project? Could it have meaningful applications or scale beyond Hackonomics? Does it offer long-term value in terms of user benefit, business, or societal impact? -
Innovation
How unique or creative is the approach to solving the problem? Does the project push boundaries or introduce novel ideas or technologies?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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