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Hackathon Radar

Find open hackathons that fit your team, with a fit score

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Hackathon Radar collects open hackathons from 16 public sources, for example Devpost, Devfolio, Kaggle and lablab. It gives each event a fit score from 0 to 100 for your team. The score uses reach, themes, prize, timing and solo entry. Then it reads the rules of the top 80 events to find student-only events, country limits and AI tool rules. You set your team profile in one JSON file. Python standard library only. MIT license.

PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: hackathons and coding competitions · 22 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Search & retrieval
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Commercial product
  • Productivity
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Yes The core is scraping public hackathon listings, scoring them with a weighted formula, and using an LLM to read rules pages. Each piece is standard, though maintaining 16 scrapers over time is tedious.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 66 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #35 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 304 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Linkwatch · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Opportunity Scout · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Eventio · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • bbradar.io · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • hackathon-starter-kit · github · 2026-10-26 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • Campus Radar · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Gamesathon · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • collusion_hackathon · github · 2026-10-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.38

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