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About the challenge

Welcome to HackForge โ€” 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.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$200+ in prizes
+ other prizes
1st Place Winner
$30 in cash
1 winner

3 Gen.xyz domains

Personalized mentoring sessions with judges

Winner certificate

2nd Place
$10 in cash
1 winner

1 Gen.xyz domain

Personalized mentoring sessions with Judges

Winner certificate

3rd Place
$10 in cash
1 winner

1 Gen .xyz domain

Personalized mentoring sessions with judges

Winner certificate

Honorable Mention
2 winners

Personalized mentoring sessions with judges

Achievement certificate

Participants prize
$10 in cash
15 winners

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

Sparsh Jain
AI-Driven Automation & IoT Specialist

Chirag Agarwal

Chirag Agarwal
Senior engineer at Amazon

Vedant Wankede
Ideation Specialist

Jeet Mehta
SDE at Netflix

Ahan Jose

Ahan Jose
Aspiring prompt engineer, 3D designer and Race Kart driver

Skanda Suresh

Skanda Suresh
Machine learning engineer at Tinder

Venkata Padma Kumar Vemuri

Venkata Padma Kumar Vemuri
Senior Principal Software Developer at Oracle

Jay Nankani

Jay Nankani
Software Developer at Redfin

Suhas Holla Karkada Chandrashekar

Suhas Holla Karkada Chandrashekar
Senior Software Engineer at Pangolin Laser Systems,Inc

Pratik Sheth

Pratik Sheth
Technical Lead, Software Applications at Google

Nishant Prakash
Senior software engineer at Oracle

Judging Criteria

  • 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?

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