Show HN: Railway hackathon – deploy an idea over a weekend

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Build and create projects, templates, and content to win up to $1000 in cash prizes

Timeline

Mark your calendar: develop, submit, and vote to win

Submission Categories

You can win through both categories, all are equally important to us, the organizers.

Submission Criteria

Make sure your submission meets all the requirements to be considered

Required Criteria

All submissions must meet these basic requirements to be eligible for prizes and credits.

  • Create Railway project after start date

  • Your Railway project is public

  • Create template from your project

  • Create written content showcasing project

  • Meet basic depth criteria

Optional Enhancements

These additional steps to boost your own content discoverability.

  • Publish template to marketplace

  • Post on social media about project

Ideas & Suggestions

Need inspiration? Here are some ideas for content and templates we would love to see

AI and MLOps

We're seeing a lot of interest in AI and LLMs. We're excited to see how you can wrap models into agents on our platform.

Headless CMSes

Marketing tech is booming. Everyone is a developer now. We want to see how devs can enable marketing teams to build more better faster.

Modern Frameworks

There's an explosion of new frameworks, and we're looking for new templates that showcase how they can be deployed on Railway.

The Next Big Thing

Many companies start on Railway. If you've been interested in building a new product, why not submit here?

Technical Content

As much as we like LLMs, there's nothing like an opinionated guide that helps users. If you're one to teach, we'd love it.

Community Requests

Ever wanted to get involed in Railway's community? Our users would love to guide you towards the biggest opportunities.

Build something amazing

Join the Railway community hackathon and show us what you can create. The form opens August 6th - mark your calendar!

Questions? Ask in our Discord #hackathon25 channel


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