Hack Africa

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Inspiration

Hack Africa emerged initially as a potential solution to curb the non-transformative culture that hackathons are conducted in on various platforms. Typically, after the projects have been submitted, regardless of whether the participant has won the competition or lost to a more worthy project, by significant percentage, the projects are abandoned in github accounts or on local machines, with no definite strategy for enabling enhancement of the prototypes to make them market worthy. So many worthwhile projects have been left unattended, a culture that is non sustainable in light of development of Africa technologically.

What it does

Hack Africa hosts hackathons and contribution bounties for participation, rewards winning projects and follows them up for further development

How we built it

We built the platform as a web application using ReactJs, TailwindCSS and NodeJs for serverside logic. We are still building and are integrating crypto payments functionality

Challenges we ran into

During the building process, some technical issues with data fetching emerged, that slowed our deployment schedule. Designing a meaningful criteria for vetting legitimate hackathon hosts and a reliable system for rewarding the participants.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The platform is live and ready for hosting of hackathons and bounties. We are able to devise a hosting and participation protocol that is relatively trustless and reliable

What we learned

We learned that nothing is really easy without determination, even the most slight undertaking can take an adverse course but its always an opportunity to learn more and become more robust, every time there is a challenge. About the projects I have personally learnt that Africa actually has potential global standard tech products but their value is discounted and shadowed by hackathon prizes

What's next for Hack Africa

Beyond hosting hackathons and bounties, our prospect is establish a technology start-up acceleration program for African builders and founders.

Built With

• javascript
• nextjs
• node.js
• react
• solidity
• yul