User Story: Inside Gaurav's 11-Year Journey on Devpost
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 4:17 am
Let’s shift gears and focus on the folks who bring their creativity and ingenuity to hackathons—our users.
We welcomed nearly 1.4 million new users to Devpost in 2023! Let’s get to know them.
Top user locations
One of the best parts of online hackathons is that they attract participants from around the world. Here are the countries where most users participated in 2023:
India
United States
Canada
Nigeria
United Kingdom
In total, Devpost users from 163 countries registered for hackathons this year.
Get to know Devpost users
We love shining the spotlight on our users! Read these user stories to get to know a few of our community members.
User Story: Mitchell’s Journey to Enhance Healthcare with Machine Learning
User Story: How Crystal’s Love for Hackathons Inspired Her to Host Her Own
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A look at Devpost for Teams
Did you know that Devpost has a platform for private, invite-only hackathons? Devpost for Teams (DFT) is a recent addition to our product lineup, and we’re thrilled that businesses are using it to spark innovation through internal hackathons.
Here’s how businesses are leveraging internal hackathons with DFT:
How Okta Engaged More Employees in Its Hackathons With Devpost for Teams
How Finastra Ignites Employee Innovation With Hackathons and Devpost for Teams
How Healthcare Bluebook jordan telegram screening Leveled Up Its Internal Hackathons With Devpost for Teams
We’re working on improving DFT every day, and we launched some pretty cool features in 2023 (if we do say so ourselves). Some of our favorites include:
Guest hackathons: Allows hackathon organizers to seamlessly invite individuals and entire teams to participate in private hackathons, like customer hackathons
Project templates: Gives hackathon participants a starting point as they build their projects, and helps organizers streamline judging since all projects are formatted the same way
Hackathon templates for organizers: Allows organizers to easily set up new hackathons with a pre-set or customized template
AI hackathon template: Gives organizers a leg up in creating AI hackathons since the template comes fully loaded with AI and LLM resources to help participants
Team building tools: Makes it easy for hackathon participants to find teams and join projects based on their specialty.
We welcomed nearly 1.4 million new users to Devpost in 2023! Let’s get to know them.
Top user locations
One of the best parts of online hackathons is that they attract participants from around the world. Here are the countries where most users participated in 2023:
India
United States
Canada
Nigeria
United Kingdom
In total, Devpost users from 163 countries registered for hackathons this year.
Get to know Devpost users
We love shining the spotlight on our users! Read these user stories to get to know a few of our community members.
User Story: Mitchell’s Journey to Enhance Healthcare with Machine Learning
User Story: How Crystal’s Love for Hackathons Inspired Her to Host Her Own
An illustration of a computer screen that reads Devpost for Teams with an illustration of a laptop screen beneath it
A look at Devpost for Teams
Did you know that Devpost has a platform for private, invite-only hackathons? Devpost for Teams (DFT) is a recent addition to our product lineup, and we’re thrilled that businesses are using it to spark innovation through internal hackathons.
Here’s how businesses are leveraging internal hackathons with DFT:
How Okta Engaged More Employees in Its Hackathons With Devpost for Teams
How Finastra Ignites Employee Innovation With Hackathons and Devpost for Teams
How Healthcare Bluebook jordan telegram screening Leveled Up Its Internal Hackathons With Devpost for Teams
We’re working on improving DFT every day, and we launched some pretty cool features in 2023 (if we do say so ourselves). Some of our favorites include:
Guest hackathons: Allows hackathon organizers to seamlessly invite individuals and entire teams to participate in private hackathons, like customer hackathons
Project templates: Gives hackathon participants a starting point as they build their projects, and helps organizers streamline judging since all projects are formatted the same way
Hackathon templates for organizers: Allows organizers to easily set up new hackathons with a pre-set or customized template
AI hackathon template: Gives organizers a leg up in creating AI hackathons since the template comes fully loaded with AI and LLM resources to help participants
Team building tools: Makes it easy for hackathon participants to find teams and join projects based on their specialty.