It’s an online edition of the biggest stationary hackathon in Europe!

We’re gathering together (virtually) to work on finding solutions to the aftermaths of COVID-19 pandemic.

3 – 5 APRIL 2020!

Where? ONLINE!
You can work from the comfort of your room.
Stay in your PJs or favorite onesie!

We believe HackYeah is for everyone.

The only thing you need to have is an eagerness to create and work on the solution. Obviously, you can be a programmer, UXer, graphic designer, business developer or so but YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ONE! Everyone is welcomed at HackYeah!

Not sure how to manage if you can’t code but want to take part in HackYeah? Check out the next question!

HackYeah is open to everyone.

You don’t know anything about programming? Come on in!

Are you a student? Join us!

Are you an undergraduate? We’ll be glad to meet you.

If you are a specialist in your branch — you have to be here.

No matter if you’re an entry-level, a junior, mid, senior or an IT star.

We invite all of you!

We are calling for fans of creative thinking, problem-solving, planning, idea implementing, leading and also of VR, AR, AI, IoT, Data Mining, Gamedev, Productdev, Mobile, and specialists in programming languages: Java, C/C++, C#,.Net, Scala, Swift, Objective C, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, HTML5, SQL.

1. First read all the tasks
2. Read the rules of the tasks you find interesting
3. If you accept all the rules, choose the task you want to work on
4. If you have trouble with figuring out what to do contact our mentors through our discord channels and ask for advice!
5. Once your project is done, upload it to the platform listed in the task rules.
6. If you feel your project might win, work on a pitch presentation to present to the jury.
7. Wait for the announcements on the main screen
8. Win the eternal fame and a nice prize!

• The tasks during HackYeah will challenge you in every possible way, this is a great space for bonding and team development.
• We expect great experts from various fields to take part in our event. You’ll have a chance to meet IT specialists, GovTech gurus, CEOs of big companies and NGO professionals.
• HackYeah will be a perfect place for networking, no matter if you’re looking for a job, employee or partnership opportunity.
• The prizes are huge.

• HackYeah ONLINE is a free event. All you need to do is register.

Read the requirements of the task you want to work on, if you agree with them, proceed. If you’re lost or not sure what to do,  contact our mentors through our discord channels and ask for advice!

The team should be 1 to 6 people, so you can go as a lone wolf or gather together with your friends! You don’t need to register your team prior to the event unless specified otherwise in particular task’s terms.

No problem with that! You can work alone but…

If you want to form a team there are two ways to find team members:

• register to our Discord where’s a special channel for attendees looking to join or form a new team
• Talk to your friends or university buddies! Tell them about the cause, we’re sure they’ll join you!

If you’re impatient you can start looking for your teammates just now on HackYeah Discord and on the HackerEarth platform!

HackerEarth allows one person to be in only one team. If you are in more than one team then please create a new account and join another team from this account.

Sure, you can change your team as many times as you want. Just make sure to be a member of one when you upload the project, this is the final declaration of who is in your squad. 

If you’re uploading to HackerEarth then it is not possible to change the team members once the project is submitted, however, if your team wins then you will state the final members of Winner Sheet.

Yes! No problem with that! We do not verify your team until you upload the project, it is totally up to you in how many teams you’ll be a part of.

Just make sure that if your tasks require uploading to HackerEarth and you upload more than one you need to use a different email address for each of them.

Yes, of course!

There will be 5 open categories of tasks:

• Security in times of the pandemic
• Business, science & technology during the crisis
• E-commerce and logistics
• Education and leisure
• Freestyle 

 In these categories, the direction in which you’ll go is completely up to you! We are not giving you any more details on the tasks, you will need to decide how do you understand and want to interpret it.

The prize pool of each category is 20 000 PLN.

Feel free to talk to our mentors and partners on our Discord channels and ask for advice. Or organize a brainstorm with other HackYeah Online attendees!

Each of the tasks will have separate rules regarding evaluation. All the details can be found in the description section of each task.

For the Main Tasks the judges will judge according to the following proportions:

• Idea — 30%
• Technical aspects — 30%
• Design — 20%
• Relation to category — 10%
• WOW! Factor — 10%

The current pool of prizes is at 100 000 PLN for the open categories. More tasks and prizes will be announced in the upcoming days!

Upload your project to the platform required for each task. The majority of the tasks should be uploaded to HackerEarth, however, each Partner might choose their own platform. Check the task descriptions to learn where to upload your project. 

Finished early?

• If you feel like your task might win, start thinking about your pitch (the short presentation in which you’ll briefly tell the judges about your project).
• Start another task! There is no limit on how many you can fulfill!
• You’re tired and don’t feel like doing anything? Chill a bit or watch one of our webinars!

No, if you don’t like what you came up with it is not mandatory to upload it. Yet we still encourage you to try as maybe the judges will see something in it that you don’t see!

It depends on the task.

In the Main Tasks, it is you who keep all the rights to the projects.

Some Partner Tasks might require you to transfer the rights after you accept the prize. To make sure what are the regulations in your task check the rules of it. You will find a link with regulations next to the task description.

You should upload it to the platform required by the terms of the task.

The Main Tasks need to be uploaded to the HackerEarth platform. Here you can find a dedicated FAQ for HackerEarth

Partners Tasks may have different regulations, check the rules in the task section on the website.

Sure, do as many as you can! There are no limits to that!

Just make sure that if your tasks require uploading to HackerEarth and you upload more than one you need to use a different email address for each of them.

The deadline is the deadline. You cannot bend it and cannot break it so better make sure everything is ready a few minutes earlier not to miss it! You can upload not finished project on HackerEarth earlier and keep changing it later — this way you won’t miss the deadline.

If you make it to the Pitches, then yes. The jury chooses the best teams from each task and invites them to a video conversation where they pitch their ideas one by one.

You’ll be notified through our channels once the jury board chooses the finalists.

Yes! The registration will be open all the time so you can register online and join us even in the middle of the night!

Jasne! Organizatorzy wydarzenia i uczestnicy będą mówić po polsku więc nie musisz się martwić.

Pamiętaj tylko że prezentacja Twojego projektu musi być wygłoszona po angielsku więc upewnij się, że chociaż jeden członek Twojego zespołu mówi po angielsku!

We knew it would come to this… So here it is.

A brief guide on how to survive HackerEarth 😉

If it’s your first time on HackerEarth:

• Register to the platform
• Register to our hackathon — HackYeah ONLINE
• Create a team and invite your mates!

If you have already used HackerEarth:

• Register to our hackathon — HackYeah ONLINE
• Create a team and invite your mates!

If you got an invitation to join a team:

• HackerEarth will automatically create your account for HackYeah. Just follow their lead!

This may be because once you are a member of a team you cannot create a new one.

But there is an easy solution! Simply set up a new account with a new email address, and we promise it will work!

The reason for this might be the fact that you are a member of a different team. Simply set up a new account with a new email address and use it to join another team/task!

Yes! As long as you didn’t upload your task solution, you can edit the team name. Click the view team button to edit the name.

Yes! As long as you didn’t upload your task solution, you can add/remove team members. Click the view team button to edit your crew.

Yes! As long as you didn’t upload your task solution, you can add/remove team members. Click the view team button to edit your crew.

Yes! As long as you didn’t upload your task solution, you can add/remove team members. Click the view team button to edit your crew.

Yes but to do so you have to have a separate account for each team. Use two different email addresses while registering and tell your new teammates to invite you to the second team with the new one. 

The deadline passes at 10 AM on Sunday. Sharp! But… don’t leave it for the last moment, the platform is rock solid but imagine lot of people will try to upload their solutions all at once… It might lead to an accidental DDOS attack.

Prepare it in any program you want but please save it in the PDF format — not all judges will have PowerPoint, keynote or whatever you use and all of them will be able to see PDF file.

Make it a short PDF file, it can be done in PowerPoint, keynote or anything else. Make sure to use any mock-ups, screenshots you have, describe your idea briefly but with all the details you believe are important, let it be an online pitch of your project.

HackerEarth allows you to submit one project to only one category, so we believe the answer is no.

It should be a short description (more of 3 paragraphs than 3 pages). Tell the judges what is the problem you are solving, how you want to solve it, how is the project supposed to work, don’t tell them the story of the world cause they won’t have time to read it all.

It should be rather short (let’s say 3 paragraphs max). Remember that the judges have to evaluate plenty of projects, so they don’t have the time to read your 5-page essay 😉

Do it in English please! Some of the judges do not speak Polish, so they won’t be able to evaluate your project if you do it in polish.

Please put it all in one repository that can be checked out online (GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc), if your code consists of few modules (API, web, mobile) you can place them in separate folders.

Don’t make it to long. 3 minutes is a maximum of how much a judge can spend on watching it. Make it an awesome ad of your project, not a story of the universe (not that the history of the universe is not interesting… it’s just that the judges didn’t come here to hear it 😉

Add anything you have, mock-ups, simulations, sketches, prototypes, screenshots, let the jury see the full picture of your project.

Please remember to upload it with an example passes because the judges have to have access to it.

Important! Only one team member can edit the project submission at the time. We strongly recommend all teams uploading to HackerEarth to follow the instructions.

Project title [MANDATORY]:

a. in English
b. no longer than 5 words

Team ID [MANDATORY]:

a. name of the team

Select a theme [MANDATORY]:

a. choose the task you want your project to be uploaded to
b. important! one project can be submitted to only one task if you’re working on different projects and will be uploading two different solutions, please register at HackerEarth using new email and then upload new project to new task

Project description [MANDATORY]: 

a. in English
b. no more than 500 words

Built with [MANDATORY]:

a. name the technologies or programming languages the team used

Upload snapshots [MANDATORY]:

a. no more than 15 snapshots
b. you can upload screenshots, prototype interface, etc 

Video link [OPTIONAL]:

a. either video of your project or team member explaining the project
b. no longer than 60 seconds
c. in English

Presentation [MANDATORY]:

a. in English
b. in PDF only
c. no more than 10 slides

Demo Link [MANDATORY]:

a. make sure to provide login information

Repository link [MANDATORY]:

a. everything in one repository (if your project has different modules please put them in separate folders)
b. available to view online

Yes! You just need a separate account on the HackerEarth platform. But there is no limit on how many tasks you and your team can solve!

Simply sign up with a different email address (each of the team members has to do so) and create a new team with this account.

Sure thing! You just need a separate account for each task you want to solve. 

Simply sign up with a different email address (each of the team members has to do so) and create a new team with this account.

You choose the task once submitting your project so you don’t have to click anywhere before. Once the project is ready to go to the Submission section and choose the task (it’s the first bracket on the submission form).