Conducting hackathons? Try this new tool

BANGALORE, INDIA: HackerEarth has come up with a tool for conducting hackathons with minimum effort and time.

Hackathons are now a critical element at all technology companies to enable community outreach, talent recruitment, ideation, internal team development exercises and platform/API evangelization. Not only does HackerEarth help these companies hire the best developer using their platform, it also helps them with positive branding and intra-company engagement. The tool also provides organizations with insights into their developer community and helps in identifying hidden talents in the workforce.

This new product, HackerEarth Sprint automates the entire process of conducting such sprints – starting from creating teams, online collaborative development among participants, showcasing products, tracking progress, peer review/voting to judging the submissions. HackerEarth Sprint allows participants to link with online platforms like Github, Heroku, AWS etc. for code hosting and deployment.

In the next version, it will have integrations with social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, so that the entire activity in the hackathons can be driven socially. Most importantly the tool makes hackathons more scalable as they can be conducted online, with participation from anywhere.

Vivek Prakash, CTO & Co-founder said, “Hackathons are being leveraged to bring the developer community together. They are already an effective hiring strategy for companies of all scales. Furthermore, technical recruitment companies are facing challenges due to a fragmented developer community. HackerEarth Sprint is aimed at helping run hackathons better and bigger.”

Ravi Gururaj, Chairman, NASSCOM Product & Executive Council, “The best hackmasters run great events by employing a range of robust web tools, managing the process with agility and flexibility, communicating with participants in real time with rich information feeds, hot wiring everyone up to social media, delivering frictionless DevOps, and ensuring high levels of fun, engagement and participation. HackerEarth's new offering captures all of these key ingredients into a simple yet powerful cloud based platform which ensures all hackmasters can deliver world class hackathons experiences.”

HackerEarth Sprint will be the platform on which the Aadhar Hackathon, in association with NASSCOM, will be conducted on January 10 -11, 2015.