Hackathons & Developer Meetups
A hackathon is a time-boxed event where developers build working software against a theme, and running one means handling production, mentoring, judging, prizes, and what happens to the teams afterwards.
We run hackathons, builder houses, and developer meetups across India — end to end. From production and judging to mentor pools, prize operations, and post-event activation. Partners include Creditcoin, BNB Chain, Ludium, and Flow — ecosystems looking to land in the Indian developer market.
Who this is for
- Chains, protocols, and AI platforms entering the Indian developer market without a local team
- Ecosystems that have run one-off events and want a programme that compounds instead
- Teams whose previous hackathon produced registrations but no lasting builders
- Foundations with a grant budget and no pipeline of teams to spend it on
When it's not a fit
- The objective is registration volume for a report. We optimise for builders who keep shipping, and the two lead to different events.
- There is nothing for developers to build on yet. If the SDK or docs are not ready, a hackathon surfaces that publicly and at speed.
- The date is weeks away and the prize pool is not approved. Announcing and then changing a prize pool costs more trust than the event earns.
- Nobody on your side can follow up afterwards. Without that, the activation stage — where most of the value is — does not happen.
What We Deliver
Ecosystem Hackathons
Online and in-person hackathons for chains, protocols, and AI platforms — themed tracks, mentor networks, and qualified builder pipelines.
University Tours
Multi-city, multi-campus hackathon and workshop tours across the IITs, NITs, and other engineering schools.
Builder Houses & IRL Events
Builder houses, hacker homes, and demo days during major Indian tech weeks — high-signal rooms rather than noisy expos.
Developer Meetups
Recurring city-level meetups, talks, and AMAs in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai for long-term community presence.
Judging & Mentor Ops
Curated judging panels, mentor pools, and written evaluation rubrics, so results are consistent and defensible.
Post-Event Activation
Grants, follow-on programmes, content, and warm introductions to keep the strongest builders in the ecosystem.
Common Use Cases
- Ecosystem go-to-market for chains and AI platforms entering India
- Multi-month hackathon series across universities and cities
- Builder houses during major Indian tech weeks
- Launch-cycle hackathons and demo days
- Recurring developer meetups for long-term community presence
- Grant programmes and post-hackathon builder activation
- Recruitment funnels for senior Web3 and AI engineering hires
Tech Stack
Outcomes you can expect
- Qualified builder submissions rather than a registration count
- On-the-ground presence in India without standing up a local team
- Press, content, and ecosystem amplification built into the programme
- A community that still exists thirty and ninety days later
What you receive
Everything below is handed over to you. Code and infrastructure live in your accounts, not ours.
- A written programme plan: objective, tracks, timeline, and owners
- The event itself, produced end to end, online or in person
- A judging rubric agreed before judges are invited, and the scores against it
- Mentor and judge rosters, briefed in writing
- Prize operations: payout process, records, and confirmation each winner was paid
- A post-event report covering submissions, retention, and what to change next time
- Written feedback returned to every team that submitted
Engagement models
Fixed-scope project
A defined deliverable at a fixed price, scoped up front. Best when you know what you need built and want a firm schedule and budget.
Best when: You know what you need built and want a firm budget and date.
Retainer
Ongoing delivery, maintenance, or advisory billed monthly. Best for continuous improvement after launch, or when priorities shift faster than a fixed scope allows.
Best when: The work is continuous and priorities shift faster than a fixed scope allows.
Extended team
Our engineers working inside your team, your process, and your repositories. Best when you have the roadmap but not the capacity or the specific skills.
Best when: You have the roadmap but not the capacity or a specific skill.
Frequently asked questions about Hackathons & Developer Meetups
End to end: production, registrations, themed tracks, mentor recruitment, a judging panel with a written rubric, prize operations and payouts, then post-event activation. You bring the ecosystem and the prize pool; we run everything on the ground, including comms before, during, and after.
From the ecosystem and from our own network of builders. Judges are chosen for relevance to the tracks and briefed on a written rubric, so scoring is consistent and defensible. Mentors are recruited for the specific stack teams will build on, not as generalists.
Activation, which is where most hackathons fail. We follow up with the strongest teams, route them into grants and follow-on programmes, amplify their work through content, and make warm introductions. The aim is builders still shipping months later, not a burst of submissions.
Both, and often together. Online hackathons reach the widest pool of builders; in-person builder houses, demo days, and city meetups produce higher-signal rooms and real relationships. Multi-city and multi-campus tours combine the two across a programme rather than a single event.
City-level meetups and events in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, and campus programmes across the IITs, NITs, and other top engineering schools. Multi-city university tours run as a series rather than a single stop, so an ecosystem presence builds up over months instead of appearing once.
Discovery. We agree the goal, review whatever exists already, and produce a written scope: what will be built, in what order, what you will receive, and what we need from you. It ends with a plan you can approve, amend, or take elsewhere.
The outcome you want and how you will judge it, access to any existing code, designs, hosting, and analytics, one person who can make decisions, and any hard constraints — a fixed launch date, a required stack, compliance obligations. Missing pieces we can work around; an unnamed decision-maker we cannot.
Both. Our published work spans early-stage products and established companies, and our smallest engagements are single fixed-scope projects. What matters is that someone on your side can make decisions and that the problem is defined well enough to scope, not company size.
Yes, as a retainer covering monitoring, security patching, dependency upgrades, performance work, and a monthly allowance for fixes and small changes. You get a report each month showing what was done. It is a separate engagement from the build, so upkeep does not compete with feature work.
Engineering and design work is delivered remotely, so location is not a constraint for those. Our in-person work — hackathons, builder houses, developer meetups, and campus programmes — runs in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Mumbai, plus university campuses across the country.
You get a written summary of what we understood, a proposed scope broken into phases, what each phase delivers, and the engagement model we would recommend. If we think you should buy something off the shelf or not build yet, the summary says that instead.