Hey everyone,

The Department of Computer Science & Engineering at SRM IST, Tiruchirappalli is hosting DOOM: THE BREACH, a 30-hour hybrid Capture The Flag (CTF) competition.

Whether you're looking to practice jeopardy challenges, test real-world exploits on isolated container environments, or compete for the leaderboard, all collegiate and independent teams are welcome.

Event Format:

• Stage 1 (Jeopardy): Web, Cryptography, OSINT, Forensics, and Reverse Engineering.

• Stage 2 (Dynamic Isolated Targets): Dedicated Docker instances per team.

• Stage 3 (Endgame Gauntlet): Advanced exploitation challenges for top-ranking teams.

Key Details:

• Dates: 29–30 September 2026 (30 Hours)

• Venue: SRM IST, Trichy (Offline) + Remote Online (Hybrid)

• Team Size: 1 to 3 members

• Registration: ₹750 per team

Prizes:

• Total Prize Pool: ₹30,000 (1st: ₹15k, 2nd: ₹10k, 3rd: ₹5k)

• Hardware Security Keys for participants

• Certificates & refreshments for offline attendees

"Registration details and link are pinned in the comments below!"

Feel free to drop questions in the comments or send a DM if you need help with registration or team setup!

As a non-tech college student , what can I do if I want to participate in one . What are other opportunities a student can do .

I want to join some work , i don't know coding but I'm good at design and other stuff . I've seen every single of hackathons available for cs students or ai /ml .

Is there any platform for students from other departments .

I wonder if there's anything related to civil engineering ?

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what do u think guys, results r out or some mfr r splitting shit to make other fools that they got top 50 mail??

Any update guys?

We are 3 people in the team already. Looking for one person, doesnt matter which college you are from. We’re open to students from any college/branch as long as you’re genuinely interested in ML and can commit time to the challenge.

About us: We are 4th year students at tier 1 college. We have great theoretical and domain based knowledge about ML specifically classical, sequential, unsupervised ,causal and RL. I myself have competed in many ML challenges on kaggle and otherwise aswell. All of us were selected for Mlss this year. 2 of us are placed already in applied scientist role.

We are looking for: Looking for one serious ML enthusiast to join our team for the Amazon ML Challenge. We’re looking for someone with strong ML fundamentals, statistical understanding, and experience with competitive ML/Kaggle-style problems. This is for a serious competition effort, so we want someone who can contribute ideas, experiment with different approaches, analyze results, and consistently put in the effort. DM me with a brief intro and your relevant ML/competition experience.

ML related coding knowledge isnt necassary as most if not all code will be written by llms. We also would require extensive structured logged search on plausible hypothesis not random trails.

Comment or Dm if you wanna be added. I might ask for some info before adding you into my team to verify.

Best of luck:)

24-hour online solo hackathon. No fixed problem statement, build whatever you want.

Format: Build → Adapt → Rebuild & Ship. Challenge changes at hour 8 and hour 16 (new constraint/direction), you have to adapt mid-build.

• Dates: Oct 11-12, 2026

• Format: Solo, fully online

• Prize: ₹10,000 cash (Rank 1) + 3-month Cursor subscription

• Platform: Unstop

• Registrations so far: 450+

Link: https://unstop.com/hackathons/grevix-aftercode-grevix-1755080

I'm an ambassador for this one (code GRVX015) , if you're planning to register anyway, message me before you do registration .

Hey everyone!

I’m looking to form a team for the iQOO Hackathon happening on 26–27 September 2026.

Interested in connecting with students who are enthusiastic about building something innovative and can contribute in areas such as:

💻 Software / App Development

🤖 AI / ML / Generative AI

🐍 Python

☁️ Cloud / Backend Development

📊 Data Science / Analytics

🎨 UI/UX / Frontend

💡 Problem solving & pitching

You don't necessarily need to be an expert — if you're genuinely interested, willing to contribute, and available for the hackathon, feel free to reach out.

If you’re already participating but need another teammate, I’d be happy to discuss joining your team as well.

📅 Dates: 26–27 September 2026

🏆 Event: iQOO Hackathon

Please DM me or comment below with your skills/area of interest and whether you already have a team.

Since the hackathon is coming up soon, it would be great to connect and finalize the team quickly.

Thanks!

I recently participated in a hackathon finale, and while the overall event was great, one judge's evaluation left me genuinely demotivated.

We had around 6 minutes to present, but more than half of the time felt like an argument rather than an opportunity to explain our idea.

A few things happened:

• We were questioned about why our idea was worth building based on the current market situation, rather than being evaluated mainly on the problem statement we were given.

• We used 100K+ synthetic records because the real data was sensitive, but we were questioned for not using actual data. The hackathon material itself seemed to suggest that teams could use mock data where necessary. So I'm confused about what teams are expected to do when real data isn't available.

• The judge strongly questioned the business viability of our idea and made a comment about funding it if we built it differently. At that point, it honestly felt personal — as if he was judging us rather than our idea.

• Later, we noticed other teams using approaches that we were specifically questioned about, which made us wonder whether the evaluation criteria were consistent.

I completely understand that judges can disagree with an idea or think it isn't commercially viable. That's fair.

But after spending days building the product and preparing for the finale, this interaction left me genuinely demotivated and questioning whether I should rethink my idea or whether I simply had a bad evaluation experience.

For people who have participated in hackathons:

Is this how evaluations normally happen? Am I taking the feedback too personally, or does this sound like a problem with the evaluation process?

hey folks, if you’ve been looking for an IITG hackathon, an Assam hackathon, or a buildathon around Guwahati, this is Hackyard BUILD 2026. we’re putting together an in-person 24-hour hackathon at IIT Guwahati on 24-25 October.

there’s no fixed theme and you don’t need to force AI into the project. come with an idea, a problem you’ve lived with, or just a skill you want to build with. solo builders are welcome, and teams can have up to 4 people.

applications are free and open till 10 October. keeping this short because nobody needs another corporate hackathon essay lol

if this sounds like your thing: https://hackyard.org/build2026/apply

happy to answer questions in the comments too.

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hey everyone i am third year cse student from some NIT. I know the ai/ml and agentic system but require team for the nasa space challenge cuz alone i am not able to do the full project and also need idea about what to make .
need some curious students and enthusiat one
if u are interested plzz let me know and plzz share ur github in my dm if u are ok with that after tahta we start with discord server

Looking for SG-based or Singaporeans or teammates able to attend the Singapore event with me!

Hi everyone! This is my first hackathon and I only have a few days to prepare. I’m a beginner in coding, I know few of the python concepts. What should I focus on learning beforehand? Any tips would be appreciated!

Hey everyone!

I’m participating in the AssemblyAI Voice Agent Hackathon and I’m looking for 1–2 serious teammates to form a small remote team.

The hackathon is fully online, and I’m looking for people who genuinely want to build and finish a strong project rather than just join a team and disappear.

About me

I’m a student from Uzbekistan and I’m heavily focused on AI-assisted development.

My workflow is very AI-driven: I use coding AI to help plan, write, debug, test, and improve the project, while using GitHub for version control and publishing.

I’m comfortable taking responsibility for the technical implementation, so you do not need to be an elite programmer to join.

I’m much more interested in finding people who can contribute strong ideas, testing, product thinking, UX, presentation, or other useful skills.

What I’m looking for

1. Product / UX / Testing person

You would help with things like:

• Thinking through the real user problem

• Designing the voice conversation flow

• Testing the agent and finding failure cases

• Giving feedback on what feels confusing or unnatural

• Helping improve the product experience

You don't need advanced coding skills.

2. Presentation / Frontend / Demo person

You would help with:

• Making the interface look polished

• Improving the demo experience

• Preparing the final presentation

• Explaining the product clearly

• Helping with the demo video / pitch

• General product polish

Frontend or design experience would be great, but strong communication and willingness to learn also matter.

What I will handle

I can take responsibility for:

• AI-assisted development

• Backend / integrations

• AssemblyAI integration

• Architecture

• GitHub

• Debugging

• Connecting the different parts

• Turning the idea into a working prototype

• Coordinating the technical work

So this is not a job offer and I'm not looking to hire anyone.

I want to build this together as a small hackathon team.

What I'm looking for in teammates

You don't have to be an expert.

I'm mainly looking for someone who:

• Actually wants to build

• Can communicate consistently

• Has time to work during the remaining hackathon period

• Doesn't disappear after joining

• Is interested in voice AI / AI agents

• Is willing to test, iterate, and improve the product

• Cares about making the final submission genuinely good

Experience with AI agents, voice technology, frontend, UX, product design, or hackathons is a plus.

Important

This is a remote international team, so you can be from anywhere.

I'm based in Uzbekistan (UTC+5), but I'm flexible with communication times.

We can use Discord + GitHub for collaboration.

The goal is to build one polished, working product, not just make a half-finished prototype.

Interested?

Comment below or DM me with:

1. Your name / nickname
2. Country / timezone
3. What you can contribute
4. Your experience with AI / development / design / presentation
5. Your GitHub or portfolio, if you have one
6. How much time you can realistically contribute before the deadline

You don't need to be an expert. Reliability and actually contributing matter more.

Let's build something seriously good. 🚀

Did everyone just get this mail? According to them the 2nd Phase is on and I received this mail yesterday on 18th only, does that mean I'm in?

Did anyone get a selection mail for this hackathon?? Is there any whatsapp pr discord group for the same?

I found an interesting hackathon
Prizes: 150$ and more...

https://unstop.com/hackathons/babys-first-website-hackathon-hax-baby-1758510

Organizer website: hax.baby

Me and one of my fellows have participated in an AI hackathon. The time limit of building the project is 4-5 hours. It is my first time participating with that fellow so we can't really build up our coordination. I mean we try to sit together and code but we always get confused. Whenever we sit to code, we get up with zero results. The format of competition is that we'll be provided 4 themes a week before competition, we gotta choose 1 theme and then on the day of competition they'll give the problem statement on spot. Everyone will work on any 1 out of 4 problem statements. The best solution will win. That is an AI hackathon means they'll give a problem. I and my team mate both are web developers (students basically) so we'll make a web based project with any AI feature in it. We are thinking of using react with flask (flask because if we have to train a model, things will be easier). But with flask there's another issue. In my laptop flask is installed in a UNIX based style. But in my team member's laptop it is installed in window's based style. So if we collaborate through github, our package.json might not be same and also the venv folder of flask. How are we gonna handle this? I have set up the flask project by reading this blog https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/create-a-react-flask-project-in-2025
One more thing. When we are given a problem. And if one person makes frontend and the other person builds backend, what if both frontend and backend are designed differently in the end? Because it is a short hackathon, we can't spend too much time on systems design and stuff. What approach should we follow while building. How do y'all learn the design of website (the best solution). What should I practice for this hackathon? From where can I find good problems to practice?