Form builder
Drag-in fields, bilingual labels, and file uploads — a registration form that matches your brand.
Hackathon Management Platform
Run hackathons that run themselves.
From the first application to the final award — registration, selection, teams, mentors, checkpoints, and judging in one bilingual platform built for Saudi innovation programs.
By Slingshot — the team behind Taqassi & Signal
Team Falcon — Day 2
✓Prototype done
Check-ins
184/200
Judging
Live
A SLINGSHOT PRODUCT
Built by Slingshot — the studio behind Taqassi and Signal — for the universities, hubs, and programs powering the region's innovation calendar.
The lifecycle
Five stages.
One straight line.
Every hackathon follows the same arc. Hackathon puts the whole arc on rails — so your team runs the event, not the spreadsheet.
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01
Register
A branded page and form builder that fills itself with applicants.
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02
Select
Review, shortlist, and accept with AI-assisted screening.
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03
Build
Teams, mentors, checkpoints — watch every day's progress live.
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04
Judge
Rubrics, fair scoring, normalized results.
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05
Celebrate
Winners page, certificates, and the full story in numbers.
Features
Everything an organizer
juggles — in one place.
Eight tools that usually live in eight tabs, wired together so the data flows from the first form to the final certificate.
Selection pipeline
Statuses, bulk actions, and AI summaries move a thousand applications in an afternoon.
Team formation
Invite codes, a looking-for-team pool, and one-click roster moves when plans change.
QR check-in
Scan badges at the door and watch the counter climb in real time.
Day-by-day checkpoints
Teams self-report progress; organizers see the whole event as a live heatmap.
Mentor office hours
Bookable slots, request queues, and private mentor notes on every team.
Judging & rubrics
Weighted criteria, conflict flags, and score normalization across judges.
Certificates & analytics
One click issues verifiable certificates; the funnel tells the story in numbers.
Who it's for
Built for the people
who run the room.
Universities
Student hackathons without the spreadsheet chaos.
Accelerators & hubs
Cohort-grade rigor for every sprint.
Corporate innovation
Internal challenges your teams actually finish.
Government programs
National-scale events, bilingual by default.
Event day
One command center
for the whole event.
Checked in
184/200
Submissions
41/48
Open tickets
3
Team
D1 · Idea
D1 · Plan
D2 · Prototype
D2 · Demo
D3 · Pitch
Falcon
Nova
Sadeem
Oasis
Vector
Announcement · Judging starts in 30 minutes — Hall B
Live
One command center for the whole event.
Bilingual by design
English and Arabic,
everywhere your participants look.
RTL done right — not bolted on. Every participant, mentor, and judge surface ships in both languages, mirrored down to the last arrow.
Pricing
Free during
early access.
Every feature is open while we're in early access — no card, no caps enforced. Paid tiers arrive later; early workspaces won't be surprised.
Early access
Free
0 SAR
Everything you need to run your first event.
- ✓ 1 event per year
- ✓ Up to 50 participants
- ✓ Full lifecycle — forms to certificates
- ✓ Slingshot badge on public pages
Early-access workspaces keep founder pricing.
Coming soon
Pro
Per event or monthly
For programs that run all year.
- ✓ Up to 500 participants
- ✓ Custom branding per event
- ✓ AI assists — screening, drafts, summaries
- ✓ Unlimited events
Coming soon
Enterprise
Let's talk
For national programs and large organizations.
- ✓ White-label — your domain, your brand
- ✓ Unlimited participants & events
- ✓ SLA & priority support
- ✓ Onboarding with our team
FAQ
Fair questions,
straight answers.
Yes. During early access every feature is free — no credit card, no caps enforced, no trial clock. When paid plans launch, workspaces created during early access keep founder pricing, and we'll give you plenty of notice before anything changes.
Fully. Every participant, mentor, and judge surface ships in English and Arabic with true right-to-left layout — mirrored navigation, forms, and dates, not a machine-translated skin. Organizers can publish event pages, announcements, and certificates in both languages side by side.
Both, plus fully onsite. QR check-in covers the door, while checkpoints, submissions, mentor bookings, and judging all work from any browser — so a remote team and a team in the hall follow the exact same flow.
On Slingshot infrastructure. Each organization's data lives in its own isolated workspace, is backed up daily, and can be exported as CSV at any time — registrations, teams, scores, and check-ins are always yours to take.
Every round uses weighted rubrics so judges score against the same criteria. Scores are then normalized across judges — a strict judge and a generous judge end up comparable — and conflict-of-interest flags exclude a judge's score from any team they're connected to. Organizers see both raw and normalized results.
Custom branding — your logo, colors, and cover on every event page — is built in today. Full white-label, with your own domain and no Slingshot badge, is part of the Enterprise tier. If you need it for an upcoming event, tell us in the form below and we'll work something out.
Early access
Your next hackathon deserves
better than spreadsheets.
Tell us about your event and we'll set up your workspace, walk you through the platform, and get your registration page live.