Products, features & resources for serious hackathon ecosystems
HackSight turns messy hackathon submissions into structured, searchable dealflow. From AI judges to builder discovery, we help organizers, ecosystems and investors find the signal fast.
Built for hackathons, accelerators, dev rel & venture teams
Signals, not spreadsheets
Unified view of code, market, sentiment & traction.
Products
Structured, repeatable evaluation of projects using AI agents tuned for hackathons.
- • Code, market & sentiment agents for deep analysis.
- • Judge-style scorecards with comments per criteria.
- • Auto-generated risk & fund-strategy style insights.
Turn several cohorts of hackathon submissions into a living, searchable pipeline of teams.
- • Public “Explore” surface for investors & partners.
- • Private scoring views & saved watchlists.
- • Growth history, traction scores & AI summaries.
A control room for organizers and judges to manage criteria, scoring and feedback.
- • Criteria & rubric editor with weights.
- • Judge dashboards & conflict-of-interest flags.
- • Exportable reports for sponsors & community posts.
Key features
- • Code Agent clones repos, inspects architecture & flags risk.
- • Market Agent maps competitors, positioning and go-to-market.
- • Sentiment & Traction look across commits, stars and project updates.
- • Milestone tracking & simple growth timelines.
- • Judge-style scoring that survives beyond demo day.
- • Watchlists & “follow project” so you don't lose promising teams after the hackathon.
- • GitHub repos & on-chain addresses per project.
- • Support for Lean Canvas / project intake forms.
- • Optional: custom scoring exports for your CRM.
- • Shared views for organizers, mentors and judges.
- • Comment threads & AI-summarized feedback.
- • Audit trail for decisions and sponsor reporting.
Resources
Short, opinionated guides to running modern hackathons with AI in the loop.
- • Designing criteria judges actually use.
- • Turning hackathons into founder funnels.
- • Writing prompts for technical project reviews.
A periodic email with templates, case studies and experiments from real events.
- • Best scoring rubrics we've seen.
- • Builder retention experiments that worked.
- • Ecosystem & grant program integrations.
For ecosystems that want to plug HackSight into their own dashboards or grant flows.
- • Project ingestion API & webhooks.
- • Judge score export & reporting endpoints.
- • Example workflows for grants & accelerators.
Ready to run your next hackathon on HackSight?
Whether you're running a weekend hack, a multi-city series, or a grant program, we can help you turn projects into a repeatable builder & dealflow funnel.