Dev tools hackathons
5 open dev tools hackathons, each checked against the organizer's official page. 2 close in the next 7 days.
A hackathon gives you a deadline, a theme and a prize pool. Many run online for several weeks and accept solo builders, so you can enter from anywhere and work in your own time.
Money for people who build tools for other developers: grants for libraries and infrastructure, hackathons from platform companies and bounties on developer products.
Dark Factory hackathon 2026
WeAreDevelopers and BAND run an online hackathon from September 26 to October 5, 2026. You build a software factory of coding agents in BAND Desktop.
SerpApi India Hackathon 2026
SerpApi India Hackathon 2026 offers prizes worth ₹3 lakh+ for developers in India. Submit by October 5, 2026.
AWS Communication Developer Services Agentic AI Partner Hackathon 2026
AWS pays a $40,000 prize pool for agentic AI built on its communication services. Open to AWS Partners until October 28, 2026.
Galuxium Nexus V2 hackathon
Galuxium Nexus V2 is an online hackathon for building paid software products, with $14,944 in prizes and a submission deadline of October 31, 2026.
Vultr: Agent Rush Hackathon
Vultr and lablab.ai offer a $9,000 cash prize pool plus $5,000 in credits for sandboxed AI agents that do real work. Online build November 3 to 8, 2026.
Questions
How many dev tools hackathons are open right now?
5 as of 5 October 2026. 2 close in the next 7 days.
Which dev tools hackathons close soonest?
Dark Factory hackathon 2026 from WeAreDevelopers and BAND closes on 5 October 2026. SerpApi India Hackathon 2026 from SerpApi closes on 5 October 2026. AWS Communication Developer Services Agentic AI Partner Hackathon 2026 from Amazon Web Services closes on 28 October 2026.
Can I apply from any country?
4 of the 5 accept applicants worldwide. The others are limited to a region or a country, and each entry says which.
How is this list checked?
Every entry is written from the organizer's official page and links to it. Programs with a rolling deadline are checked again for closure, and an entry moves to the archive on the day it closes.