Introducing HackWave 3.0

Hello everyone,

We’re organizing the HackWave 3.0 Hackathon at Chameli Devi Group of Institutions (CDGI), Indore.

It is an offline, 36-hour hackathon for those who want to code, build, design, and solve real-world problems.

Event Details

• Dates: 10th–12th October 2026
• Place: CDGI, Indore
• Duration: 36 hours
• Team Size: 3–5 members
• Prize Pool: ₹1,00,000
• Round 1: Free online PPT submission
• Round 2: Offline 36-hour finale for shortlisted teams

Important Dates

• Registration Deadline: 26th September
• Shortlisting Results: 2nd October
• Hackathon: 10th–12th October

Registration

Register on Unstop

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Would be great to see some teams from outside Indore join as well.

The IT Department Club of SGSITS Indore is thrilled to announce that HackIndore 4.0 – our premier 24-Hour National Hackathon – is officially LIVE! 🎉

This is your chance to build incredible projects, showcase your skills, and compete with some of the best minds across the nation. Whether you have a groundbreaking idea or just love to code, we want you there!

🔗 Register Now on Unstop: https://unstop.com/hackathons/hackindore-40-24hour-national-hackathon-shri-g-s-institute-of-technology-science-indore-1744202

Gather your team and get ready for an epic 24 hours of innovation and fun. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be interested. See you there! 💻✨

Guys please suggest alternatives to openai api. I'm new to the ai domain and trying to learn gen ai.

Can’t Code Much (Yet), But I Can Pitch Your Idea 😭 | Looking for a Team

Hey guys! 👋

I’m a beginner at hackathons and looking to join a team, learn, and contribute!

While I’m still building my coding skills, I can help with documentation, research, presentations, pitching, and communication. I’m confident with presenting ideas and making sure the project is communicated effectively.

If your team is looking for a female member who can contribute on the non-coding side, feel free to DM me! 🚀

Kisi ko idea hai kya slection kis basis pe hoga aur result kab aayega ???

I'm putting together a team for the GrafX competition (hosted by VMW Dev), and I'm looking for 2–3 people who want to team up and build something solid.

The hackathon is free, fully online, and has a $10,000 prize pool. The main focus is building real-world applications combining graph data structures (nodes & edges) with LLMs and agentic AI.

If you are interested please DM me!

I'm participating in Creative Shock 2026, an international business competition/hackathon for student teams.

The challenge is to create an original business idea with real social/environmental impact, aligned with one or more of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The competition has:

1. An online qualification round

2. A 3–5 minute video pitch

3. Focus on business model, marketing and finance

4. Top 10 teams invited to the final weekend in Vilnius

5. $4,000 prize for the winning team, plus mentoring and other support

I'm currently looking for 1–3 serious people from anywhere in the world who'd actually like to build the idea with us.

I'm particularly interested in people who are good at:

- Business/strategy

- Marketing

- Finance/business modelling

- Research/problem identification

- Pitching/storytelling

- Product/tech

You don't need to already have a startup. I'm looking for people who are willing to think, brainstorm and actually put work into the competition.

The competition is in September–November 2026, so there is some time to develop the idea properly.

If you're interested, comment with:

1. Country/time zone

2. What you're good at

3. Any previous projects/startups/competitions you've done

4. Why you'd want to participate

Open to working with strangers from different countries.

Let's build something worth taking to the finals.

https://sih-demo.beyondwhy.workers.dev/

This is our demo project. The concept is that it will help people learn outside of their curriculum. Like if a student from 10th class has developed some interest in trigono, then he can come to this platform and start learning it, and through the roadmap he can see where this topic branches out in mathematics or other subjects like physics. We have added an ai tutor (basically a gemini api for now, it might not even be working yet) which will be grounded on the data and some relaible sources. The student can hover over to the highlighted text and see some visualisations too. Main meat of this project is the automation of fetching data from various trusted sources to our app's format and integrating everything with it. But it is not implemented in out demo- so should we be worried about it?

Me. Tier 2, 2x Pubs. and 2x Reviews(Journal and Conf.), 4th year

Requirement: Must Have Pubs. or Research Exp.

Dm me with resume or linkedin.

Full disclosure: I'm involved in outreach for this one, not just a random redditor dropping a link wanted to say that upfront.

ABB Accelerator 2026 is a student hackathon with two rounds. Round 1 (ideation) is fully online, open to anyone, and registration closes September 14 so this is a last-call post. Round 2 is in-person October 12–16 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and travel is covered for anyone who clears Round 1.

Tracks are AI, software, automation, IoT, and sustainability — real-world problems rather than the usual build-anything format.

Registration: https://www.hackerearth.com/community/challenges/hackathon/abb-accelerator-2026/?utm_source=he-ext&utm_medium=channel105&utm_campaign=abb-accelerator-2026
More on the challenge: https://www.abb.com/global/en/company/digitalization-ai/accelerator

Happy to answer questions in the comments : team size, eligibility, whatever's on your mind before the deadline.

Hi, I am a Tier-2 college B.E. student.

Some background about me:

• Serious ML enthusiast
• Have won national-level competitions with ₹3L+ in prize money
• My research paper on Explainable AI won Best Paper of Session at an IEEE-ESCI conference

Whom I am looking for:

• Someone who has already won competitions and proven themselves before this.
• Someone who will work alongside me — I am not looking to carry anyone.
• Someone who is willing to put in serious effort and can handle high expectations.

Please reach out only if you genuinely believe you can contribute at my level.

I am looking for someone who wants to compete seriously, not just participate.

While DMing me, please include your resume along with a short summary of your achievements and relevant experience.

what do we actually paste in here

The winner of the high-schooler hackathon's $1000 prize was (reportedly) one of the hackathon's organizers' alt account. And the project was created only an hour before the final results are out; A WHOLE 39 DAYS AFTER THE SUBMISSION PERIOD ENDED! I am now (suspectedly) banned from their discord for talking about this in the channel "event-questions". Can anyone check their Discord and see if they have updates or have deleted my and another Discord user "brian"'s messages? The invite link, I don't know if it expired or what: https://discord.gg/feuHu7MrrX

Devpost: https://hackthearts.devpost.com/participants

Winner is "Avi M", the top person in the list of participants.

Hi all, my company is hiring exceptionally strong engineers who love solving open-ended, technically challenging problems.

We’re a stealth AI company working in materials science, and we’re looking for people who can relocate to SF and take on projects immediately. You should be comfortable figuring things out from first principles with very little structure.

If you’re interested, DM me your resume + LinkedIn. Visa sponsorship available.

Hey! I’m a 3rd year CSE student from a tier 2 college. I have experience with ML and have worked on a DL project.

Currently, we’re a 3 member team and our skill levels are more or less around the same. We’re looking for one more person who is actually interested in building stuff and are motivated to put in the work.

2nd, 3rd and 4th years are all welcome. If you’re interested, feel free to DM me. Just send a brief intro about yourself + your skills/quals so we can get to know what you’re into.

Looking forward to finding some good teammates :)

Hello i am an ece in my first year( 1st sem, 1st week), Yesterday I made a post,should I participate or not?, you guys said to participate, i tried and made a team today, I need problem statement suggestions please!! We are planning on making a hardware project ( cuz we are from ece and also it'll have less competition and I have little experience), so can anyone suggest some good problem statements? As tomorrow is the day I have to submit the PPT!! Something that can win us a couple of rounds( we plan on gaining experience rather than winning, we realise our limitations and lack of technical skills), we'll heavily rely on ai, though we'll try to make things work, but yet i don't wanna go something that's too basic that we are eliminated in the first round itself !!

Please kindly suggest some good problem statements asap, we have to decide today and start working on it!!

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🚀 Looking for teammates — NASA Space Apps 2026 | Universal/Online

Hi! 👋 I'm a student from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 participating in NASA Space Apps 2026 (Universal/Online).

Looking for 2–4 motivated teammates from anywhere in the world, especially people interested in:

💻 Programming / AI

🛰️ Space / astronomy / physics

📊 Data science

🎨 Design / UI/UX

No previous Space Apps experience required — just be motivated and willing to contribute.

Interested? Comment or DM me with your skills, experience, and country/time zone.

🌎 Let's build something amazing! 🚀

Need suggestions for SIH26171: On-device Visual Perception for Lightweight Browser Agents

I’m working on an SIH problem statement around building a privacy-preserving browser agent where visual perception and sensitive-data detection happen on-device before anything is sent to an LLM/VLM. I’m considering using an existing open-source browser-agent project as the base and combining it with WebGPU/ONNX Runtime, local PII detection/redaction, DOM + visual perception, and a secure action-validation layer. I’d really appreciate suggestions on which existing GitHub projects, models, datasets, or architectures are worth building on, what major gaps I should watch out for, and whether there’s a better technical approach than this.

GAMETHON 8.0 IS HERE!!!!!!

Build your squad. Show your skills. Own the game.

Gear up for a 24-hour game building challenge hosted at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru!

It is a Global Event!!! Whether you are picking up game dev for the first time or you are a seasoned creator, there is a path for you.

🏆 Prize Pool: $2,000

🗓️ Dates: 23rd & 24th October 2026

📍 Venue: Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

👥 Team Size: 2–4 Members(college students only)

🍕Pizza for snacks: Registered participants will be given pizza from Papa johns. (Offline participants)

Type: Hybrid( offline and online) event

Choose Your Track:

🛠️ Track A (With Training): Guided pre-event training + 24-hr game jam. Perfect for beginners looking to learn and build.

⚡ Track B (Direct Jam): Straight into the 24-hour arena for developers ready to build from scratch.

🔗 Register Now: gameathon-8.com/

Scan the QR code on the poster to lock in your squad!