For hackathon organisers

Run the Hackathon, Not the Spreadsheets

Registration, teams, checkpoints, judging, results and certificates in one place, in your event's own words.Registration, teams, checkpoints, judging, results and certificates in one place that speaks your event's language: teams, projects, participants and judges. Your crew spends the event with the teams, not reconciling sheets.

Book a demo Every kind of event

From Registration to Certificates

The life of an event, with IdeaScore doing the bookkeeping.

Registration
Teams form themselves
Participants register, build a team or find one, and teams lock on the date you set.
Build
Work in by a date
Every team sends its repository, demo video or deck; a grid shows who has sent what.
Judging
Judged the right way
Rubric, ranking, head-to-head, live pitch or public vote, chosen for each round.
Results
One page to share
The winner in a card of its own, the next two beneath it, and a search for every team.
After
Certificates that prove themselves
Participation, merit and winner certificates, each with a QR code anyone can check.

Event types

It speaks hackathon from the first screen

Choose hackathon and every screen, email and public page says teams, projects, participants and judges, with the right features on.Say what kind of event you are running when you create it, and every screen, email and public page uses its words: a hackathon has teams, projects, participants and judges. The features that suit it switch on with it, such as team formation and checkpoints, and you can rename any word, or switch a feature off, without losing anything.

Rename the words people see at any time, even once entries arrive
Switch a feature off and nothing is deleted
Coding, machine learning and hardware contests have types of their own

See every kind of event

The new programme window, where the kind of event sets its words and switches on features such as Pitch day, Interviews and Mentors. — Name the programme and say what kind of event it is; the right features switch on.

Team formation

Teams form, and lock, without your inbox

Set team size and a lock date. Leads invite or approve requests, and a team finder that never shows an email address helps people find a team.Set the team size, whether people may take part solo, when formation opens and the date it locks. Leads invite people or approve join requests, and anyone without a team uses the team finder, where nobody's email address is ever shown. You see every team, everyone still looking, and any team below the minimum to follow up.

Invitations last 7 days and work only for the address they were sent to
Merge solo registrations into a team, and unmerge them
Eligibility rules are checked when someone registers or joins

HackDeccan's Team Formation page: 51 teams, 157 people on teams, and the team policy settings. — Team sizes, when teams form and lock, and a finder for people without a team.

Schedule and checkpoints

Repositories, demos and decks, by a date

Ask for a repository, demo video or deck by a date. A grid shows who sent what, late work is marked, and the timetable reaches every calendar.Ask every team for a GitHub repository, a demo video, a deck, a design file or a short answer by a date, with a late period of up to 7 days if you want one; work sent then is marked Late. A grid shows teams against items, with versions and anything still missing, and the programme timetable reaches every team's portal and calendar.

Judges see what a team sent while they score
In a blind round, repository links and file names stay hidden
Sending again keeps the earlier versions

HackDeccan 2026

Prototype checkpointDue Sun 16 Nov, 18:00 IST

TeamRepositoryDemo videoDeck

E-Auto Swap Gridv3v1v2

GridSense Labsv2Latev1

Kisan Konnectv1v1Missing

Byte Brigadev4v2v1

Neural NomadsMissingMissingMissing

Open 3 days after the due time · work sent then is marked Late

Event page

Tracks, prizes and problems on one public page

Tracks, prizes, problem statements revealed on time and community links, on one shareable event page.Set the tracks teams enter under, name the prizes, and publish problem statements when you choose, now or at a reveal time. Eligibility rules, announcements and up to five community links sit on the same shareable event page. Prizes are captions: IdeaScore never handles, holds or pays prize money.

Problem statements start hidden until you reveal them
Tracks become the options on the registration form
Winners appear once you publish results

Meridian Research Park presents

HackDeccan 2026

14 to 16 Nov · Hyderabad and online

Tracks

ClimateMobilityAgritechOpen data

Prizes

Winner₹1,00,000
Runner-up₹50,000
Best first-year team₹25,000

Problem statements

Revealed Fri 14 Nov, 09:00

Rules · Eligibility · Chat group · Forum

Judging modes

Judge each round the way it should be judged

Rubric, ranking, head-to-head, live pitch or public vote, round by round, with judges opening on what to score next.Choose for each round: rubric scores, a ranking of each judge's projects, head-to-head pairs that IdeaScore balances, live pitch scoring on the day, or a public vote. Judges open on what to score next, and Turn my notes into feedback helps them give every team something useful to read.

Head-to-head is fair once every project has been compared five times
Live pitch rounds are scored on the day with the round's rubric
The mode is fixed once rankings, comparisons or votes exist

See what judges get

Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

How this round is judged

Edit round · Semi-final

Fixed once rankings, comparisons or votes exist.

Prediction contests

Prediction contests, scored on every upload

Upload a private answer file and set the metric. Teams' predictions are scored automatically, with a public leaderboard and a private reveal.For machine learning and data contests, set the metric and upload your answer file: it is stored privately and never shown, not even to staff. Teams upload predictions and see their score on the public share while the contest runs; the rest stays private until you reveal it, and a public leaderboard shows who leads.

Accuracy, macro F1, RMSE, MAE, ROC AUC or log loss
A daily limit on uploads per team
Reveal the private leaderboard when the contest ends

HackDeccan's contest leaderboard: the rooftop solar forecast task led by E-Auto Swap Grid, with the private score spread and submissions per day. — The leader, the score spread and submissions per day for every task.

Public vote

Let the audience have a say

Available once your organisation turns it on: voting by confirmed email, flagged spikes for you to review, and an optional blend with the jury.Public vote is available once your organisation turns it on. Voters confirm their email with a one-time link, and their address is never stored with their vote. Sudden spikes and unusual patterns are flagged for you to review, votes for a voter's own team never count, and you can blend the vote into the jury's score, up to 20%.

1 to 5 votes per person, and one per team if you choose
Void a vote with a reason, kept in the audit log
The public sees no counts while the vote runs

Seed Fund 2026 · Cohort III

Vote Integrity

Grand finale · open

1,184
Counted: 37
Held for review: 12
Void

Flagged votes

Sudden spike · Kelpline21 votes
Many voters on one network · Tessel Labs16 votes

Public Vote Reach

652 people voted, from 38 colleges and organisations

Available once your organisation turns it on. An address is never stored with its vote.

Certificates

Certificates anyone can verify

Participation, merit and winner certificates in ten designs with your logo and signatures, each with a QR code anyone can verify.Issue participation, merit and winner certificates from ten designs, Bold hackathon among them, with your logo, a partner's logo, your colour and up to three signatures. They are made in the background, and each participant finds theirs in the portal. Every certificate carries a QR code and an ID that open a public verification page, and you can revoke one with a reason.

Winner certificates go to the prize winners
Participation can be limited to teams that sent a checkpoint
Design with IdeaScore AI drafts a look from your brand

The Certificates page with a Certificate of Participation previewed beside its design settings. — Templates, your colour, your words and signatures, with a live preview.

Running One Event? Start Free.

Run your first event free on Starter. Professional covers more.Run your first event free on Starter, start to finish. For more rounds, a pitch-day final or several events a year, Professional covers 5 programmes a year.

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Starter
Free
no card needed
Programmes
1
Entries each
100
Evaluators
3
IdeaScore AI credits, once
150
Professional
₹3,99,999
a year, before GST
Programmes
5
Entries each
2,000
Evaluators
25
IdeaScore AI credits a year
25,000

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What IdeaScore AI Does for You Here

It drafts and suggests; your crew and your judges decide.

Names and contact details are swapped for labels before anything reaches IdeaScore AI. It never picks a winner.

Set up with IdeaScore AI
A few short questions, then a draft of the form, rubric, rounds and letters for your event.
A live preview shows the draft as people will see it
Design certificates with IdeaScore AI
One design for each kind of certificate from your brand and your prizes, tried on your longest names.
Nothing changes until you save the design
Draft team intros
Two-line introductions for each team, for the compere on pitch day.
A draft for you to edit
Turn my notes into feedback
Helps each judge give every team kind, specific feedback from their own notes.
Free · reads only the judge's own scores, notes and the rubric

What It Takes Off Your Plate

Matching people into teams
A team finder with skills and roles, and no email address on show.
Collecting work
Repositories, demo videos and decks by a date, in one grid.
Checking repositories
A GitHub badge on every repository link, with Recheck.
Sharing the timetable
The agenda in every team's portal, and as a calendar file anyone can add.
Time zone arithmetic
The event keeps its own time zone, and people elsewhere see their own time alongside.
Building a results page
The leader in a card of its own, the next two beneath it, and a search for every team.
Telling teams how they did
A rank band such as Selected: 40 of 312, never a position.
Certificates by mail merge
Issued in the background, skipping anyone who already has one.
Lost checkpoints
A deleted checkpoint can be restored for 30 days.

Matching people into teams
A team finder with skills and roles, and no email address on show.
Collecting work
Repositories, demo videos and decks by a date, in one grid.
Checking repositories
A GitHub badge on every repository link, with Recheck.
Sharing the timetable
The agenda in every team's portal, and as a calendar file anyone can add.
Time zone arithmetic
The event keeps its own time zone, and people elsewhere see their own time alongside.
Building a results page
The leader in a card of its own, the next two beneath it, and a search for every team.
Telling teams how they did
A rank band such as Selected: 40 of 312, never a position.
Certificates by mail merge
Issued in the background, skipping anyone who already has one.
Lost checkpoints
A deleted checkpoint can be restored for 30 days.

Questions Hackathon Organisers Ask

No. Prizes are captions on your event page; IdeaScore never handles, holds or pays prize money. Naming a winner records who is named, and winners appear publicly once you publish results.

Yes. The team finder shows each person's name, institution, skills and what they are looking for; email addresses are never shown. People reach each other through an invitation or a join request.

Only if you allow it. A checkpoint can stay open for a late period of up to 7 days after its due time, and anything sent then is marked Late.

Public vote is available once your organisation turns it on. Voters confirm their email, flagged votes wait for your review, and after the vote closes you can blend it into the jury's score by up to 20%.

Every certificate carries a QR code and its ID. The verification page shows who it was issued to, the programme, the organisation and whether it is valid or revoked, never an email address.

Your first hackathon can run free on Starter: one programme in total, up to 100 entries and 3 evaluators, in a single round. For screening rounds, a pitch-day final or several events a year, Professional covers 5 programmes of up to 2,000 entries each for ₹3,99,999 a year, before GST. Or let our team run the hackathon with you through IdeaScore Programmes, quoted for your event.

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From Registration to Certificates

RegistrationTeams form themselves
BuildWork in by a date
JudgingJudged the right way
ResultsOne page to share
AfterCertificates that prove themselves

What IdeaScore Does for a Hackathon Organiser

It speaks hackathon from the first screen

Choose hackathon and every screen, email and public page says teams, projects, participants and judges, with the right features on.

Rename the words people see at any time, even once entries arrive
Switch a feature off and nothing is deleted

See every kind of event