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The themes for Season 2 are as follows:

- Climate change and Environment
Climate change is an ongoing problem with our planet, so we want to encourage hackers to build solutions to tackle this issue and come up with some innovative solutions.

- Blockchain and Crypto
Blockchain, the next generation of the internet is decentralized. It'll be a great experience for the hackers to learn new blockchain techs and work with various chains and come with unique ideas while learning.

- Open Innovation
We don't want our hackers to limit their ideas, so we also have an Open Innovation track where hackers can come up with their own ideas, and make awesome innovative projects irrespective of any theme.

- Diversity & Inclusion
Build a hack that helps communicate the importance of managing bias and make it more diverse and inclusive. With this track, we aim to promote the development and advancement of underrepresented groups. 

Requirements

Few important things to keep in mind.

- This is a team hackathon. Hackers must form a team of 2 - 4 members.
- It is mandatory for every member of a team to be registered for the hackathon on Devpost.
- We require all teams to submit a 2 minute or less demo video.
- Your video must be created on the weekend of the hackathon [22nd Oct - 24th Oct].
- Your project submission must be completed within the submission period.
- Your code must be available in a public repository.
- Create your projects from scratch and during the hackathon only.
- If you're working on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on 1) before this day one of Hack This Fall 2.0 and 2) during the day of Hack This Fall 2.0
- Do not submit projects from past hackathons or projects which were built before the hackathon. This will straight away void the hackathon guidelines and disqualify your submission.
- Cross submissions from hackathons happening on the same weekend are not allowed!

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

1,475,001 in prizes

Overall Winning Team [Hack This Fall Prize]

- INR 50,000 Prize to winning team.
- USD 250 Amazon Gift Card from Quicknode.
- USD 250 of free S3-compatible object storage credits with Filebase
- USD 449 of 1 year of Draftbit Pro
- USD 375 of Wolfram Award [1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition +1 year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro]
- USD 250 of Digital Ocean Credits
- Hack This Fall Swag Pack
- Certificates to members
- Special Mention on @hackthisfall Socials

Overall Runners-Up Team [Hack This Fall Prize]

- INR 35,000 Prize to winning team.
- USD 100 Amazon Gift Card from Quicknode.
- USD 150 of free S3-compatible object storage credits with Filebase
- USD 449 of 1 year of Draftbit Pro
- USD 375 of Wolfram Award [1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition +1 year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro]
- USD 125 of Digital Ocean Credits
- Hack This Fall Swag Pack
- Certificates to members
- Special Mention on @hackthisfall Socials

Overall Second Runners-Up Team [Hack This Fall Prize]

- INR 20,000 Prize to winning team.
- USD 50 of free S3-compatible object storage credits with Filebase
- USD 449 of 1 year of Draftbit Pro
- USD 375 of Wolfram Award [1 year of Wolfram|One Personal Edition +1 year subscription to Wolfram|Alpha Pro]
- USD 100 of Digital Ocean Credits
- Hack This Fall Swag Pack
- Certificates to members
- Special Mention on @hackthisfall Socials

Agoric Build Challenge (3)

Agoric is offering prize for the best NFT related projects. Hackers can choose what they want to build in the NFT space.

1. Create and launch your own non-fungible token project using the Agoric smart contracting framework.

2. More Difficult: Complete a contract to allow NFT creators to perform “NFT drops” which are currently popular on other blockchains. [Work with dapp-nft-drop as a starting point]

- 1st team wins USD 1,500
- 2nd team wins USD 700
- 3rd team wins USD 300

Storyblok Track

Teams may use Storyblok APIs (Content Delivery API or Management API) to integrate Storyblok with their project.

We encourage you to also check out how to expand Storyblok using custom apps and field types (plugins) to create an awesome hack.

- Storyblok will give away a mechanical keyboard to each member of the team with the best hack integrating Storyblok.

Storyblok plans to look closely at everyone who provides the best Storyblok hack to see if they could be an asset to one of their teams (see the open positions).

Courier Track

Courier offers a fast and cost-effective solution for developers to build notifications into their products.

We are looking for the project for the best implementation - the most innovative, fun, and or practical - of notifications using the Courier API.

- Each team member of the winning team will receive a $100 Amazon gift card + Courier swag kit.

Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [MLH Prize]

GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are.

Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit!

Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.

Best Web Monetization Project [MLH Prize]

Coil is all about providing better ways to access and reward the creators, publishers and platforms that you love.

Coil members get to view web monetized sites while streaming micropayments directly to the website owner, or in this case, you! In turn, you can react to payments in real time by displaying a thank you message, unlocking bonus content, features and so much more!

Build a web monetized hack using Coil for a chance to win an Anker Quick Charge Portable Charger, Coil pin and $60 Coil credit redemption card!

Most Creative Use of Twilio [MLH Prize]

Twilio allows you to incorporate mobile messaging, phone calls and a ton of other awesome communication features right into your hackathon project using a web service API.

Are you building an e-commerce website and want to send text notifications or email confirmations once an order is completed? Or maybe you'd like to verify users based on their mobile numbers? Twilio makes all this possible and more.

Build a hack that simplifies your life using any Twilio API for a chance to win Twilio Swag Box & GameGo Console! Get started with $50 in free credit!

Best Use of Linode Cloud [MLH prize]

Use any one of Linode's wide array of cloud products and take your hack to the next level!

Whether you're looking for data storage, compute power or hosting, Linode has what you need and the complimentary credits to get you started.

Sign up and start hacking for your chance to win a Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit.

SAWO for Auth Challenge

SAWO admires & recognizes true talent, and they've tons of rewards in store for everyone who incorporates the SAWO Auth API in their hack. We are looking for out-of-the-box prototypes/MVPs that push the boundaries of scale, novelty, and imagination.

- $100 Prize to winning team
- 1-month free access
- Feature in our Blogs & Articles
- SAWO funds 100% of the Playstore / App store subscription fee for the best mobile apps.
- SAWO funds 100% of the hosting fee for the best web-apps
- For extra special products - Special opportunity to pitch your hack to VCs and Investors in SAWO’s Pitch day Hack

Build With SymblAI (2)

The best hack build using the SymblAI APIs wins $100 Amazon Gift card + SymblAI Swags.

Raahee Mental Health Track

For the track challenge, we will choose one winning team that builds a mental health project, the project should be unique and innovative.

The team members will be offered a chance to work with Raahee. The internship would be 2 months long, the interns will be mentored by our mentors from CISCO ThingQbator.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Abel Mathew

Abel Mathew
Auth0 Ambassador

Abhishek Doshi

Abhishek Doshi
Google Dev Expert [Dart & Flutter]

Aditya Oberai

Aditya Oberai
MLH Coach

Harshit Singh

Harshit Singh
SDE, Amazon India

Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma
Organizer, Flutter India

Kartik Choudhary

Kartik Choudhary
Frontend Engineer, Klinify

Khushboo Verma

Khushboo Verma
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Pragati Verma

Pragati Verma
Software Developer, DPhi

Pranshu Khanna

Pranshu Khanna
Community & Events Manager, GraphCMS

Sahil Sen

Sahil Sen
Developer Evangelist, QuickNode

Santosh Yadav

Santosh Yadav
Google Dev Expert [Angular]

Sashrika Kaur

Sashrika Kaur
Software Engineer, Microsoft

Soumya Ghosh Dastidar

Soumya Ghosh Dastidar
SDE, Chaos Native

Yashovardhan Agrawal

Yashovardhan Agrawal
DevRel Manager, RocketChat

Judging Criteria

  • Originality
    Has this project been done before at hackathons in the past? How creative is the project in solving the problem at hand?
  • Completion
    Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted?
  • Design
    Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface?
  • Innovation
    Does the project attempt to solve a previously unsolved problem?

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