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Explore hackathon planning guides, blog posts, webinars, and more to learn how to run successful hackathons

Customer stories

Neo4j accelerates product adoption with strategic customer hackathons

How Neo4j uses 72-hour hackathons to turn unfunded ideas into production-ready products with Devpost for Teams.

All posts

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AI trends report 2026

What millions of developers are actually building with AI in 2026. Get the full report.

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Customer stories

How Grafana Labs scaled its internal hackathon program with Devpost for Teams

Find out how Grafana Labs turned nearly 40% of hackathon projects into shipped products and roadmap features with Devpost for Teams.

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Is it time to run a customer hackathon?

Discover 3 signs your accounts are primed for deeper AI product integration and how to get there with customer hackathons.

Driving AI innovation with internal hackathons

Learn how to build your AI strategy with Okta, Estée Lauder Companies and SAP

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A conversation with Microsoft hackathon organizers and winners

Catch up on this conversation with Microsoft hackathon organizers and winners

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Level up your next all-hands hackathon

Learn how to transform your company-wide hackathons from Motorola Solutions, Toyota North America, and JLL Technologies.

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AI hackathon playbook

Proven plays to distribute AI and accelerate adoption—for developers, employees, and customers.

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Internal company hackathon template and planning kit

Download this hackathon planning guide to see how to organize your next internal hackathon.

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Customer hackathon AI adoption playbook

Download the strategic blueprint for running customer AI hackathons that drive native adoption, surface new use cases, and secure upcoming renewals.

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How to plan an internal hackathon for your entire company

Download this guide to learn how to plan and manage company-wide hackathons.

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How to sell AI: Use customer hackathons to drive adoption

AI adoption is one of the biggest challenges companies face today. This guide shows how customer hackathons get customers building with your tools.

Calculating the total cost of running an online hackathon

Learn how to build your hackathon budget and calculate the total cost of running a public online hackathon in this free guide.

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How to run an online hackathon

Learn how to plan and run online hackathons for public audiences that inspire innovation and drive developer engagement.

Best practices for in-person hackathon managers

Your go-to guide for planning and hosting successful in-person hackathons.

How to boost public hackathon registrations and submissions

Learn how to boost hackathon registration and developer engagement in this free downloadable guide.

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How to build and scale your developer community with high-impact hackathons

Learn proven strategies to grow and sustain your developer community with hackathons that inspire participation and long-term engagement.

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Hackathon planning

The ultimate internal hackathon planning kit

Get the tools and templates you need to kick-start your next company hackathon.

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Business impact

What Devpost’s AI Trends Report 2026 reveals about how developers build

Enterprise hackathon growth, the agentic AI adoption gap, and what the data says about recurring programs.

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Business impact

3 proven plays to accelerate AI tool adoption

How to drive adoption through hackathons across your developer communities, employees, and customers.

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Hackathon planning

What the data shows about how to drive developer tool adoption in 2026

New data from enterprise and community hackathon programs shows what actually drives developer AI adoption.

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Hackathon planning

What a learning hackathon is and how our last one went

Inside our 30-day hackathon built around learning a skill, with results from 1,200+ developers.

Participant resources

Build AI agents for real-world challenges in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon

Build a Gemini-powered AI agent using MCP integrations from six technology partners and compete for prizes in the Google Cloud Rapid Agent Hackathon.

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Participant resources

User story: How Dylan Vu hacked his way from 50 lines of code to engineering at Amazon

Meet Dylan, a software engineer at Amazon who's been part of nearly 60 hackathons as a hacker, mentor, and judge.

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What internal hackathons actually produce

Here's what leading companies are getting from their internal hackathon programs.

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Business impact

What to expect from a hackathon program (and how it compares to running just one)

Running more than one hackathon compounds your results—more developer touchpoints, richer insights, and a stronger community over time. Here's what to expect.

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Hackathon planning

A 48-hour hackathon example for engineering teams… exactly how we ran ours

An inside look at how our dev team used an internal learning hackathon to explore new AI integration paths and build functional features in just 48 hours.

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Participant resources

User story: How a former ship navigator and a Snapchat veteran built a VR world in one week

Discover how Pavlo Tkachenko and Artem Maslov turned a physics prototype into a winning Meta Horizon entry in just 168 hours.

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Hackathon planning

Don’t let your AI tool become shelfware: Use customer hackathons to drive measurable adoption

A practical guide to using customer hackathons to identify power users, secure executive buy-in, and drive product adoption.

Make a real impact on customer retention with hackathons

Here are 5 reasons to run customer hackathons.