// about
about hackathons australia
An independent directory of hackathons happening around Australia — one place to find every build weekend, jam and design challenge, without checking four platforms.
what this is
Hackathons Australia is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Australia and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one. Right now there are 30 upcoming eventslisted across 8 city hubs, plus 37 past events kept as an archive.
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. A scrape pipeline checks the four public platforms Australian hackathon organisers actually use — Humanitix,Eventbrite, Luma and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening here. 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, and it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:
- Australia only. The Humanitix, Eventbrite and Luma searches are scoped to Australia. Devpost is global, so an event from there is only accepted when its location resolves to an Australian state or territory —
NSW,VIC,QLD,WA,SA,TAS,ACTorNT. - Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, datathons, capture-the-flag competitions and similar hands-on events. A conference that merely mentions the word does not qualify.
- Still upcoming. Once an event's last day has passed it moves to the past-events grid rather than the main listings — on the homepage and on its city's page alike.
- Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link and its name, and merged into one listing.
What survives is then expanded into a full page — the organiser's own description condensed, dates normalised, prices read as Australian dollars, the banner image saved — and published.
Automated aggregation means mistakes reach the site. If a listing has the wrong date, the wrong city, or should not be here at all, tell us and it gets fixed or removed.
how cities work
There are 8 city pages — Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart, Darwin — one for each capital. Coverage follows the events, not the population: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide have upcoming listings today, and the remaining hubs stay published so that a city with nothing on right now still has a page to land on when something is announced.
An event's own page always shows its real venue and address, including for events outside the capitals. The city grouping only affects which hub page you find it under.
who it's for
Developers, designers, students and founders looking for something to build this weekend — and organisers who want their event found by those people. Student-run university hackathons, corporate innovation weekends, government and civic challenges, charity build days and independent game jams are all in scope.
how this site makes money, and what that changes
Being listed is free — the directory would be worthless if it only contained events that paid to be in it. Organisers can optionally pay for a featured listing, which buys a banner across the site for seven days and a place in the weekly email.
A featured listing buys placement and nothing else. It does not change whether an event is listed, and it does not reorder the ordinary listings, which are sorted by date. We are not affiliated with Humanitix, Eventbrite, Luma or Devpost, we are not paid by them, and the outbound links to organiser pages are not affiliate links — the/go/ address a registration link passes through counts the click and forwards you to exactly the URL the organiser published. We earn nothing when you register for an event.
editorial stance
- Completeness over curation. The aim is every Australian hackathon, not a shortlist of the ones we like. We do not rate, rank or review events.
- Organisers own their description. Summaries are condensed from the organiser's own listing. We do not add promotional claims of our own.
- Corrections are free and fast. There is no fee to fix or remove a listing, including a featured one.
- No dark patterns. No cookie wall, no advertising trackers, no third-party analytics. The privacy policy lists exactly what is collected and which other companies see anything.
get in touch
Corrections, questions, removal requests and press enquiries all go to the same place — see thecontact page. Organisers with an event to add should use thesubmit form.