zh.run/hackathon

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Join Zenith Hosting and UNSW Founders for a fast-paced weekend of turning cool ideas into real products! You'll build an app, publish it to the Zenith catalogue, then share what you've made with your community and see who will actually pay you for a hosted instance of it.

This is not a pitch competition built around hypothetical customers. By Sunday, your app will be live on Zenith and competing for real users and sales. The hosted deployments you sell will count towards the judging alongside what you built. Be sure to join our Discord for discussion and reminders. All essential event updates will also be posted on Luma.

Prizes ($600 cash pool) 🥇 First place - $300 🥈 Second place - $200 🥉 Third place - $100 🏅 People's Choice

The Challenge Your team has three days to: 🔨 Build an app people really want ⤴️ Publish it to Zenith ✨ Promote it and attract users 💰 Sell as many instances as you can The best teams will combine a great product with the ability to get it into people's hands.

The Weekend Friday October 16th @ 2pm - 7pm: 💥 Kickoff Meet the other builders, form a team and settle on your idea. We'll introduce the Zenith platform, then let you get to building.

Saturday October 17th @ 12pm - 7pm: 🚀 Build and launch Finish your app, and publish it with help from the Zenith team. When it's live, start selling. Share your app with relevant communities, speak to anyone you think might use it, and start driving deployments.

Sunday October 18th @ 1pm - 7:30pm: 🏆 Demo Day Keep promoting your app and give it a final polish. Then get ready to show everyone what you've built and how you've sold it. Teams will demo on stage before the room opens into an expo where attendees can try one another's apps. The judges will announce the winners at the end of the day.

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