Join us for a weekend full of financial and fintech hacks! Whether that means building a hack to help you tackle your budget, building a financial hack for stock trading, we can't wait to see what you'll make!
Join us for a fun weekend of hacking, mini-events, workshops, and more! While we'd love to have you build something on the theme, our themes are only here for inspiration. As always, build whatever you'd like!
Eligibility
This event open to hackers, all over the world. While we primarily work with student hackers or those who have graduated within the last 12 months, working professionals are also welcome to join us. Students can include high school students, university undergraduate or postgraduate students, and people who are in vocational training such as apprenticeships.
As per our Code of Conduct, there is no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, economic status, veteran status, disability, or age.
Requirements
- We require all teams to submit a 2 minute or less demo video.
- Your video must be created the weekend of the hackathon.
- Your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
- We do allow you to submit your project to other hackathons (this weekend only) as long as the other hackathon also allows this.
- If you're continuing work on an old project, you MUST specify in your Devpost what was worked on 1) before the hackathon and 2) during the hackathon.
Prizes
First Overall
Fire 7 tablet + MLH Swag
Second Overall
Anker Soundcore Wireless Earbuds + MLH Swag
Third Overall
Anker PowerCore Portable Charger + MLH Swag
Best Investment Hack
This weekend, building a finance hack would bring home great returns. Think outside the box and work on problems faced by our fintech industry. The best on-theme hack would receive two highly recommended personal finance books, "I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi" and "Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki" along with your favorite MLH swag.
Shiny Penny Hack
New to the hackerspace? Don't worry, we got you covered. Learn something about the fintech industry with us this weekend by creating your first finance hack. Be innovative with your ideas and get a chance to win the classic game of Monopoly and MLH Swag.
Teams must be at least 50% first time hackers to be eligible.
Best Domain Name from Domain.com
Register a .tech domain name using Domain.com during the weekend. Each team may submit one entry per person on the team. Each winning team member will receive a PowerSquare Qi Wireless Phone Charger & Domain.com Backpack.
Best Hardware Hack presented by Digi-Key
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Using your preferred hardware or hardware emulator, build a hack for your chance to win a Grove Beginner Kit, with an embedded Arduino compatible board. 1 prize for each winning team member with 2 winning teams per event!
Best Use of Linode
Use any one of Linode's wide array of cloud products and take your hack to the next level! Whether you're looking for data storage, compute power or hosting, Linode has what you need and the complimentary credits to get you started. Sign up and start hacking for your chance to win a Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit.
Best Domain Name from GoDaddy Registry [APAC Only]
GoDaddy Registry is giving you everything you need to be the best hacker no matter where you are. Register your domain name with GoDaddy Registry for a chance to win a Hack from Home Kit! Each Kit contains wireless earbuds, blue light glasses, selfie ring light and a pouch for easy transport.
Best use of Google Cloud
Build your hackathon project with a suite of secure storage, powerful compute, and integrated data analytics products provided by Google Cloud. See full list of products here: g.co/cloud. Each winning team member located in the US will receive a Google Cloud Swag Bag complete with a beanie, pillow, journal, socks and lanyards. International winners will receive a Google branded backpack.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

Major League Hacking
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Has this project been done before at hackathons in the past? How creative is their project in solving the problem at hand? -
Adherence to Theme
Does the hack adhere to the event's theme? Does it implement that theme fully or just partially? -
Completion
Does the hack work? Did the team achieve everything they wanted? -
Learning
Did the team stretch themselves? Did they try to learn something new? What kind of projects have they worked on before? -
Design
Did the team put thought into the user experience? How well designed is the interface? -
Technology
How technically impressive was the hack? Was the technical problem the team tackled difficult? Did it use a particularly clever technique or did it use many different components? Did the technology involved make you go "Wow"?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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