about hackathons india

what this is

Hackathons India is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in India and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one, and it browses by 10 city hubs.

Right now there are 47 upcoming events listed. That number moves every week — the collection run adds what it finds, and an event drops out of the main list into the archive once it has happened. The directory is new, so expect it to be on the thin side for a while; what is here is real.

We do not run hackathons. Every listing links out to the organiser's own page, which is where registration, rules, schedules and any questions about the event itself belong. Think of this as an index, not an intermediary.

where the listings come from

Listings are gathered automatically. Once a week, on a Sunday, a collection run checks the public event platforms that Indian hackathon organisers actually use — Luma first of all, then Eventbrite, Meetup and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in India, whether the listing calls it a hackathon (हैकाथॉन in Hindi). Organisers can also add an event directly through the submit form.

Automated collection is the only way to keep a directory of this kind current, but it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:

• India only. The risk here is the subcontinent's online calendar: Unstop and Devfolio host thousands of online listings, and Hyderabad exists in both India and Pakistan. An event is accepted when an Indian venue, a .in link, the Asia/Kolkata timezone, an Indian college or company, or a six-digit PIN code confirms it.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify.
• Online events need a Indian signal. An online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a local link, a local timezone, or India-only eligibility rules.
• Still upcoming. Past events move to an archive section rather than the main listings.
• Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link or its title and merged into one listing.

how the listings are written

Once an event is accepted, its page is read and the details are pulled out — dates normalised to the local format (26 Sep 2026 / 26 सित॰ 2026), prices to rupees, written ₹2,500 with lakh grouping (₹1,00,000) as Indian organisers do, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser. Titles stay exactly as the organiser wrote them. Both scripts are read — हैकाथॉन and hackathon — and the search box matches either; Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata are written as the organisers now write them, with the older exonyms folded onto them.

how the city hubs work

Ten hub cities — Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Chandigarh — plus the campuses and satellite towns around them. Each hub covers the area around it rather than the city limits alone, so events in Whitefield, Gurugram, Hinjewadi or Gandhinagar all show up under their nearest hub. Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Coimbatore, Indore, Bhopal and Lucknow keep their own name and show under all events. The kinds of event you will find — campus hackathons (the IITs, NITs, BITS, VIT, SRM and the Smart India Hackathon), platform-hosted competitions on Unstop and Devfolio, corporate and fintech challenges, civic open-data events and game jams — are listed on the guide page.

money

The directory is funded by featured listings: an organiser can show their event as a banner on every page for seven days for a one-time fee. The order of ordinary listings is unaffected — it stays chronological.