One of our key tips for hackathon organizers is to keep things simple and aligned with your goals. As noted above, we wanted to find out the current state of incentive to submit and ease of submission.
With this in mind, we launched Hack Devpost. Participants were asked to answer feedback-related questions and, as a bonus, come up with an idea for a project that would help hackathon participants. The feedback questions focused on identifying their incentive to submit and ease of submission. The bonus idea submissions significantly luxembourg telegram screening enhanced our understanding of the ease of submission by providing valuable insights into different hacker experiences and the perspectives of developers on how to improve the process.
How did it go?
In short, it exceeded our goals and expectations. With a modest prize budget of $3,500, full marketing efforts from our marketing team, and less than a month we saw:
7,873 visitors to the hackathon site
1,340 registrants
213 submissions from 202 individuals
It had a submitter conversion rate of 15% and the overall results in reach and submissions were beyond our goals. However, the real gold was what those submitters shared with us and the community connection we built during the hackathon.
Through workshops and our Discord chat, participants got to know the Devpost team and felt engaged and part of the community.