Built for hackathons

AgendaForge for hackathons.

Run a hackathon end to end — project intake, judging, schedule, mentors, sponsors, and free registration in one place.

A hackathon is a logistics problem wearing a fun hat. You need a clean way for teams to submit projects, a fair way to judge them against criteria, a schedule that keeps mentors and rooms from colliding, sponsors who feel taken care of, and a front door where builders can register without friction. AgendaForge runs that whole arc from one platform. Project and team intake uses the same branded submission forms that power academic calls for papers; judging uses real reviewer assignment, rubrics, scoring, and review rounds; the agenda builder handles multi-track days with rooms and mentor sessions; and free registration opens on a public event page. Everyone — builders, judges, mentors, sponsors — lives in one directory that carries from one hackathon to the next, so you spend the weekend running the event instead of reconciling five spreadsheets.

The old way

What slows you down today.

Project intake held together with forms and forwards

Teams submit through a generic form, then you copy names, repos, and demo links into a sheet by hand — and chase the half that filled it in wrong.

Judging that nobody trusts

Scores arrive over Slack, email, and a shared doc, criteria drift between judges, and at the end you cannot reconstruct how a winner was actually chosen.

Schedule, mentors, and sponsors in separate worlds

The agenda, the mentor sign-ups, the sponsor commitments, and the registration list each live somewhere else, so a single change means updating four places.

The better way

How AgendaForge helps.

01

Structured project and team submission

Build intake with 16+ field types and conditional logic — repo links, tech stack, team members, demo URLs — with autosaving drafts, co-submitters, and duplicate detection that flags lookalike entries.

02

Real judging, not a group chat

Assign judges to projects, score against shared rubrics, run more than one review round, and keep every score attached to the submission so the outcome is defensible and reproducible.

03

One schedule, one directory, one front door

Plan a multi-track agenda with rooms and mentor sessions, track sponsors in the same CRM as everyone else, and open free registration on a public event page — no separate tools to wire together.

Questions

For hackathons, answered.

Q.01 Does AgendaForge have a Devpost-style project gallery and live leaderboard?
No — and this is where dedicated hackathon platforms genuinely win. AgendaForge has no public project showcase gallery or real-time leaderboard. Judging runs through reviewer assignment, rubrics, rounds, and scoring rather than a bespoke hackathon scoring app, and you can publish your agenda and speakers via public pages and JSON embed feeds, but a hosted project gallery is not part of the product today.
Q.02 How does judging actually work for hackathon projects?
You collect projects through a submission form, then assign judges to them and have them score against shared rubrics. You can run more than one review round — for example a first-pass screen followed by a finalist round — and every score stays attached to the submission, so you can explain exactly how each result was reached after the dust settles.
Q.03 Can builders register for free?
Yes. Free registration and RSVPs are built in: define ticket types, attach a custom registration form, and open sign-ups on a public event page. Note that registration is free-only right now — paid ticketing exists in code but is not generally available, so a hackathon that needs to charge entry fees today should plan around that limitation.
Q.04 Is AgendaForge available to anyone running a hackathon?
Not yet — AgendaForge is invite-only while we onboard early design partners with white-glove setup. You can request an invite or book a demo, and the team will help bring your first hackathon onto the platform rather than handing you a complex tool to learn alone.

Built for hackathons. Bring yours in.

Invite-only while we onboard early partners. Tell us about your event and we'll bring you in — white-glove, no training course required.

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