How to run a Perfect Online Hackathon.

Want to run a virtual event but you don’t know where to start? In this article, we will examine in detail how to start an online Hackathon. This is a real case of one of KreativDistrikt’s successful past global events. KreativDistrikt is a world-leading Online Hackathon Agency helping customers to achieve their goals.

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Online Hackathon Website

In order to know how to start a Hackathon first a good, clear, and engaging website is crucial. Take a look at the one we designed.

It contains all the main sections. Consider it while designing your online hackathon website.

Hackathon registration rorm

Of course, it’s important in how to organize an online Hackathon to get contact details but trying to understand if registrants are serious about the hackathon could also important. Therefore, we asked them to provide the following:

• Perceived Effectiveness. That is, how effectively the idea/solution addresses issues related to one of the four challenge categories (If the challenge has categories)
• Technical Feasibility. I.e., how technically feasible would the solution be to create and produce.
• Uniqueness. In brief, how unique the idea/solution is? Moreover, how can it help promote the usage of the challenge technologies and/or products?
• Business Potential. For instance, how much short and long-term revenue potential would the idea represent? Also, how feasible the proposed business model would be to implement?

At last, you can use these online tools to organize a Hackathon WordPress plugins Contact Form 7 or WPforms to help you keep track of the registration form and your Hackathon process flow in a simple way and. At the same time, you don’t need to know much about databases.

Once we got a minimum of 40 registrants, we scheduled a couple of explanatory webinars in our Hackathon program. Surely, you want to do this before the selection announcement.

Zoom is still the most valuable tool in town. Firstly, you can choose a license depending on your webinar audience size. Secondly, you can also record the webinar. Lastly, you can upload and share it with stakeholders that couldn’t attend it for any reason.

In these calls, we went through any technical aspect of the challenge. In sum, we clarified any registrants’ doubt collecting requests and suggestions.

Only if your online hackathon is global, try to find a suitable time for each country.

Undeniably, you want to keep track of project progress. Another key point is monitoring participants’ commitment. To this end, we set the following 3 milestones. As can be seen in these Hackathon steps, these items should be delivered before the Project Submission:

#1 – Essay: this document explains the idea behind the app. Nonetheless, it should also describe the methods and laying outflows and features.

#2 – Mockup Demo: It’s a basic visual prototype. However, it also gives a look and feel of the future app. This is useful to test the core concepts and clear the loose ends.

#3 – Final video: That is when participants showcase the different structures of the app they designed.

 #4 – Project Submission: Make clear from the beginning how you want the project delivered. In particular, language required, email a ZIP file, Apple App Store / Google Play Store. Also, Google forms is a great way to have the submission documentation all in one place.

And the winner is…

Spread the word in many ways:

• Online hackathon website update.
• Posts on social media.
• Online blog articles.

For instance, one can provide teams’ company and project links. Also, honorable mentions, prize pool, and information about future events should be included.