Form builder
Drag-in fields, bilingual labels, and file uploads — a registration form that matches your brand.
A hackathon management platform that runs itself
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
Team Falcon — Day 2
✓Prototype done
Check-ins
184/200
Judging
Live
A SLINGSHOT PRODUCT
Built by Slingshot 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 applicants with statuses and bulk actions.
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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 and bulk actions 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
Try free. Pay per event.
Or subscribe and save.
Every plan runs the full lifecycle. Prices in Saudi riyals — no card checkout, a proposal within one business day.
Try
Sandbox
Free
A free sandbox event — an internal demo run to try the full platform.
- ✓ Full lifecycle — forms to certificates
- ✓ No card needed
Pay per use
Per event
From SAR 4,900 / event
Pay for the events you run, sized by participants.
- ✓ SAR 4,900 — up to 100 participants
- ✓ SAR 12,900 — up to 500 participants, custom event branding
Proposal within one business day.
Subscribe & save
Annual license
SAR 24,900 / year
For programs that run all year.
- ✓ Unlimited events, up to 500 participants each
- ✓ Custom branding per event
Enterprise / National by proposal — full white-label, custom domain, unlimited scale. Education 40% off.
See full pricing
FAQ
Fair questions,
straight answers.
Start with a free sandbox event. A single event is SAR 4,900 for up to 100 participants or SAR 12,900 for up to 500 with custom event branding; the annual license is SAR 24,900 per year for unlimited events of up to 500 participants. Enterprise / National is by proposal, and education gets 40% off. We send a proposal within one business day, then invoice — payment by bank transfer.
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 / National tier (by proposal). 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.