| --- |
| 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](https://devpost.com), |
| 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 |
|
|
| ```python |
| 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: |
|
|
| 1. 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. |
| 2. 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. |
|
|
