For Organisations
Grow your business by running a hackathon.
We plan, launch, operate, judge, and report on developer hackathons where the goal is real product usage, contribution activity, and measurable community reach.
Campaign OS
Managed
Position
Audience, story, prize, technical hook
Launch
Landing page, rules, resources, outreach
Activate
Support, office hours, community prompts
Evaluate
Eligibility checks, judging, winner comms
Report
Repos, demos, feedback, recap content
Product Usage
Get developers building with the product
For Kiro, the core metric was meaningful product usage inside submitted projects. We shape the challenge, rules, and rubric so builders have to use the product for real.
Repo Actions
Drive qualified developers to GitHub
We can focus the campaign on opening your repo and submitting a company-specific flow or PR, so attention turns into visible contribution activity.
2,000 to 3,000 Stars
Build measurable repository momentum
When GitHub stars matter, we plan community distribution around that secondary goal while keeping the primary contribution path front and center.
Multi-Format Reach
Activate every channel that matters
We push through external channels like YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and newsletters, plus internal spaces like Discord, Telegram, and community platforms.
Pick the business outcome first.
A hackathon works when the brief, distribution, builder support, and judging all point at the same commercial goal.
New APIs, SDKs, agents, models, and platforms
Developer Launch
Give builders a concrete reason to try the product during the launch window.
Products with docs, examples, and early users
Adoption Campaign
Move developers from awareness to working projects, then learn where they get stuck.
Partner stacks, cloud platforms, and technical communities
Ecosystem Challenge
Generate examples, integrations, and use cases around a broader developer ecosystem.
Treat the hackathon as a product feedback engine.
Registrations matter, but the deeper value is what developers reveal while they try to build something real with your product.
Which product paths builders understood
Where documentation slowed them down
Which use cases felt real, not demo-only
What participants built without hand-holding
Which demos and repos deserve follow-up
What objections showed up during support
Built like a service, packaged like a product.
You get the practical pieces needed to run the campaign, plus the judgement to shape them around a technical audience.
Theme and positioning
Landing page production
Rules and eligibility
Technical rubric
Builder resources
Community prompts
Submission review
Judging support
Winner comms
Recap content
Project teardown
Signal report
Kiro, AWS
Ready, Spec, Ship Hackathon
A sponsored developer challenge with a $9,600 prize pool, public repository submissions, demo videos, and a structured technical rubric.
Case data
- Prize pool
- $9,600
- Deadline
- Aug 23, 2026
- Rubric
- 100 points
Plan the run
Tell us what developers should build with.
Send the product, target developer audience, timing, and what a successful campaign should prove.