HackMe

Inspiration

HackMe started from my experience as a technical student. I often looked for smaller hackathons and competitions where I could compete with students around my level. This made me think: instead of always searching for someone else's hackathon, why can't students create their own?

That question became HackMe.

The Problem

Students who want to organize a small hackathon may need to depend on colleges, institutions, or organizers. There is also a need for smaller competitions within friend groups, college communities, clubs, and local student communities.

The Solution

HackMe is a student-first hackathon platform concept where students can become both participants and hosts.

The workflow is:

Create → Configure → Share → Join → Build → Submit → Judge → Results

The goal is to bring this experience into one simple platform.

What I Built

For this submission, I built a functional frontend prototype demonstrating the main HackMe workflow.

The prototype includes:

Landing page
Explore hackathons
Create hackathon
Join hackathon
Hackathon details
Dashboard
Team management
Project submission
Judging interface
Leaderboard

The current prototype uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript with browser LocalStorage for prototype state and is deployed on Vercel.

How I Built It

I focused on building the core user experience first: how a host creates an event and how participants discover, join, build, submit and view results.

The current version is intentionally a lightweight prototype rather than a production backend system.

Challenges

The main challenge was designing a simple experience that supports both hosts and participants while keeping the workflow easy to understand.

What I Learned

Building HackMe helped me understand how to turn a product idea into a complete user workflow and how to think about the experience from both the host and participant perspective.