Datasets:

twangodev
/

devpost-hacks

pretty_name: Devpost Hackathon Projects
license: other
language:
  - en
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - text-generation
  - summarization
tags:
  - hackathon
  - devpost
  - github
  - projects
configs:
  - config_name: all
    default: true
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/all/train.parquet
  - config_name: cal-hacks-12-0
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/cal-hacks-12-0/train.parquet
  - config_name: hackgt-12
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/hackgt-12/train.parquet
  - config_name: hacktech-by-caltech-2026
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/hacktech-by-caltech-2026/train.parquet
  - config_name: madhacks
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/madhacks/train.parquet
  - config_name: madhacks-fall-2025
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/madhacks-fall-2025/train.parquet
  - config_name: pennapps-xxv
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/pennapps-xxv/train.parquet
  - config_name: treehacks-2024
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/treehacks-2024/train.parquet
  - config_name: treehacks-2025
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/treehacks-2025/train.parquet
  - config_name: treehacks-2026
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/treehacks-2026/train.parquet

devpost-hacks

A collection of hackathon project submissions scraped from Devpost, enriched with the README files of any GitHub repos linked from each project.

Intended for research use only (e.g. evaluating LLM judges, training project-summarization models, studying what wins hackathons.)

Configurations

Config	Rows	Winners	With READMEs
`all` (default)	2222	363	1358
`cal-hacks-12-0`	694	100	352
`hackgt-12`	272	25	171
`hacktech-by-caltech-2026`	61	0	46
`madhacks`	55	10	32
`madhacks-fall-2025`	111	13	77
`pennapps-xxv`	98	25	63
`treehacks-2024`	319	58	192
`treehacks-2025`	248	70	185
`treehacks-2026`	364	62	240

hacktech-by-caltech-2026 has zero winners because results were not yet announced on Devpost at scrape time.

Schema

Field	Type	Notes
`project_id`	string	First 12 hex chars of `sha1(url)`
`hackathon`	string	Hackathon slug (matches the config name)
`url`	string	Devpost project URL
`title`	string
`tagline`	string	One-line summary on Devpost
`description`	string	Full Devpost project write-up
`built_with`	list<string>	Tags the team used (`react`, `python`, ...)
`video_link`	string	Demo video URL if any
`other_links`	list<string>	All non-video links from the project page
`results`	string	Award label (`Winner`, `Did Not Place`, etc.) or `null`
`is_winner`	bool	True iff Devpost flagged any award as a "winner"
`readmes`	list<struct>	GitHub READMEs for repos linked under `other_links`

The readmes struct fields:

repo — owner/repo
content — README markdown, truncated to 6000 chars (with [... truncated] marker)
truncated — bool

Loading

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("twangodev/devpost-hacks")                    # all hackathons
ds = load_dataset("twangodev/devpost-hacks", "treehacks-2026")  # one hackathon

Sources & licensing

This dataset aggregates content from two upstream sources, neither of which has a single uniform license:

Devpost project pages - Project text (title, tagline, description, links, results) is authored by the participating teams. We include this content here under a fair-use / research-use rationale.
README files: Each README inherits the license of its repository.

Because of (2) in particular, we cannot apply a uniform open license to this dataset.

Takedown & Removal Requests

If you are the author of a project (or a maintainer of a linked repo) and would like your content removed from this dataset, email contact@twango.dev with the project URL or repo slug. We will remove it from the next release.