ITCom Hackathon

An internal month-long hackathon where volunteers built products for the community’s own ecosystem and learned to think like founders.

Year: 2025
Volunteers: 140, of them 54 active
Ideas: 30 and more
Duration: One month

About the project

For one month, volunteers built products for IT Community itself. Every Saturday brought video lessons and mentor sessions on value propositions, minimum viable products and idea validation, so teams learned to think like founders while they were building.

The rest of the week went into the products, built for problems the community knew from the inside. Three teams took the prizes, and one of the products is still running today.

In numbers

By the community, for the community.

140volunteersSigned up for the hackathon.
54active participantsTook a product through the whole month.
30+ideasProposals for making the community work better.
3winning teamsOne product is still running today.

The format

From an idea to a product in a month.

01An idea30+ proposals
02A value propositionSaturday lessons
03An MVPSmallest version worth testing
04A productThree prizes

The ideas

More than 30 ideas, five that stood out.

01
Event management platform
Registration, ticket sales, badges and attendance tracking in one tool.
02
Weekly AMA sessions
A platform where IT specialists and startup founders meet students and answer their questions.
03
Anonymous employer reviews
A space to share what working somewhere is actually like, salaries included.
04
IT events calendar
One hub that keeps track of what is happening across the local IT scene.
05
TechQuest
A team IT challenge with game mechanics, built for people who are just starting out.