For hackathon organizers

The hackathon platform for vibe coders

Your participants ship Claude artifacts, Lovable apps, v0 components, and Cursor outputs. Devpost is built for GitHub repos. tinytools is built for what your people actually make.

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Free for student and community events. No vendor contracts, no setup fees, no credit card.

The problem

You're gluing together three tools that weren't built for this.

Notion for rules. Discord for announcements. A Devpost account nobody wants to make, where half the submissions are links to Lovable apps that don't even have a repo. Judges score on a Google Form. Winners get announced in a message thread that scrolls away by Tuesday.

The event runs fine. But the week after, there's nothing to point to — no permanent page, no leaderboard anyone can share, no way for a participant's parents to find the thing they built.

Comparison

Why organizers are switching

Devpost is great for 48-hour repo-based hackathons with 3 judges and a sponsor. It starts to creak when participants ship static web tools from Claude or Lovable, and when you want blind judging with per-track rubrics.

	tinytools	Devpost
Live preview of each submission on the entry page	check_circleBuilt in — visitors try the tool without leaving the page	Links out to a GitHub README
Blind judging with custom per-track rubrics	check_circleBuilt in — each track has its own criteria	One rubric across the whole event
Accepts non-repo submissions	check_circleHTML file, ZIP, URL, or Lovable/v0/Claude artifact	Designed around GitHub repos
Setup time	check_circle~5 min to create an event	Account approval + back-and-forth
Cost for student events	check_circleFree	Event pricing varies
What happens after the event	check_circlePermanent page for every entry, with upvotes and analytics	Gallery page, but engagement drops off

What's included

Everything you need to run it, nothing you don't.

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Tracks with their own rubrics

Define tracks (AI, social impact, best UI, sponsor prize) each with their own criteria, prizes, and sponsor logos. Judges see the right rubric for each entry automatically.

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Blind scoring

Creator names and upvote counts are hidden from judges. Scores are 1-5 per criterion with private notes. You see the aggregate on your organizer dashboard.

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Live preview, not a README

Every submission renders inline — judges and attendees click Try and the tool runs. Works for HTML uploads, URLs, Lovable/v0 apps, anything embeddable.

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Judge invite links

Generate an invite URL. Judges click it, sign in, and they're scoring. No manual allowlisting, no CSVs, no Slack DMs to chase down accounts.

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Leaderboard + winner ribbons

Public leaderboard sorted by score. Mark winners per track. Gold/silver/bronze ribbons that follow the tool page after the event. Embeddable on your own site.

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Resource hub

Attach credit codes, sponsor APIs, setup guides, schedule, and rules to your event page. Everything participants need in one place instead of a Notion dump.

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Post-event analytics

Every submission page tracks views and upvotes over time. Participants see real engagement signal after the event ends — better than a single thumbs-up count for their CV.

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One link for everything

Share /e/your-event. Participants submit, judges score, and attendees browse — all at the same URL. No ten-tab scavenger hunt.

What we'll help with

We'll help you run it, not just host it.

For student and community events, book a 20-minute call and we'll walk through the setup together.

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Branded event landing page

Your logos, your copy, your banner image, your sponsor strip. Participants land somewhere that feels like your event, not a generic template.

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Help recruiting judges

We keep a list of active judges from past events — AI engineers, designers, product folks — who've said they're open to being asked for student events.

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Run-of-show template

A battle-tested timeline for a weekend hackathon, including kickoff script, check-in points, submission deadlines, and judging windows.

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Day-of support (select events)

For a handful of events each month we put someone from tinytools on standby over the submission window — stuck submissions, judge login issues, anything platform-side. First come, first served; ask on the intro call.

Process

How it works when we run one together

20-min intro call

We understand your event — size, theme, tracks, judges, deadline. If we can help, we lock a date.

Setup week

You send us your logos and rules. We build your event page, tracks, and rubrics. You review, we tweak.

The weekend

Participants submit at one URL. We're on standby. Judges score blind at their own pace.

Winners + legacy

Announce winners on the leaderboard. Every entry keeps its permanent page. Share the event URL with your alumni network for years.

Common questions

Is it really free for student events?expand_more

Yes. If you're an MBA club, a university hackathon, a bootcamp, or a meetup, there's no fee. We make money from sponsored events and the Pro tier — the student side stays free because those are the events that feed the platform with its best submissions.

What kind of submissions work on tinytools?expand_more

Anything that runs in a browser. Single HTML files, ZIP bundles, public URLs, Lovable projects, v0 components, Claude artifacts, Cursor outputs, static sites from GitHub Pages. If it's embeddable, it gets a live preview. If it blocks embedding, we fall back to a screenshot and a Try button.

Can we hide submissions from the public until winners are announced?expand_more

Per submission, yes: creators can opt a tool out of the public browse catalog while still entering it into your event — judges see it, the rest of the world doesn't. We don't currently have a single event-wide toggle that hides every submission during the judging window; if that's a hard requirement for your event, tell us on the intro call and we'll add it.

How many judges can we have?expand_more

No limit. Each judge gets an invite link, scores at their own pace, and sees only the rubric for the tracks they're assigned to. The organizer dashboard shows you judge progress in real time.

What about sponsors?expand_more

Each track can have its own sponsor with logo, prize description, and a link. Sponsors can also post resources (API credit codes, docs) to your event's resource hub. Participants see sponsor info everywhere — event page, track page, each submission.

Can we export the data?expand_more

Yes. Submissions, scores, and participant data export as CSV from the organizer dashboard. It's your event.

We want to run it ourselves — do we still need to talk to you?expand_more

No. Just go to Create an event and you're set up in 5 minutes. The intro call is for events where you want help with logos, judges, or the run-of-show.

Running one in the next 60 days?

Book a 20-min call. If it's a fit, we'll help you set it up and recruit judges — at no cost.

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