Hackathon

Find Hackathons (Ranked)

  1. DevPost
    1. Pretty much the status quo
  2. https://pinnacle.us.org/
    1. You already know
  3. Major League Hacking
    1. Not the biggest fan tbh
  4. Hack Club
    1. Curated List for High Schoolers
  5. DevFolio
    1. Devpost wannabe
  6. http://hackathonsnear.me/
    1. Might be useful after COVID for in person
  7. https://www.hackathon.io/
    1. Big list, a bunch of spam

Cool Existing Ideas

  1. https://www.producthunt.com/
  2. Hackathon - A collection of Boilerplates and Resources for Hackathons - (hackathon) (opensourcelibs.com)
  3. API Directory | ProgrammableWeb

Interesting API’s

  1. https://finnhub.io/
    1. Free Stock/Currency API
  2. https://www.quiverquant.com/
    1. Ask me for free api
  3. https://apilist.fun/
  4. https://github.com/lavie/Awesome-APIs
  5. https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Data Sources

  1. https://www.kaggle.com
  2. https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
  3. https://www.datasetlist.com/
  4. https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
    1. Dataset search tool
  5. https://dataverse.org/

Deployment Tools

  1. https://www.netlify.com/
  2. https://www.pyth onanywhere.com/
  3. Heroku
  4. Google app engine
  5. Open Shift

Wireframing

  1. Moqups
  2. Basalmiq
  3. Invision
  4. Axure
  5. OmniGraffle

Website Creation

  1. Bootstrap
    1. https://getbootstrap.com
    2. https://startbootstrap.com/
    3. https://codyhouse.co/
    4. http://bootsnipp.com/
  2. https://reactjs.org/
    1. Next.js by Vercel - The React Framework (nextjs.org)
  3. http://ianlunn.github.io/Hover/
  4. Free domain names
    1. https://education.github.com/pack
    2. MLH monthly codes

Backend Stuff

  1. https://firebase.google.com/
  2. http://fenixwebserver.com/
  3. https://www.mongodb.com/
    1. https://studio3t.com/download/
  4. Whatever database is sponsering
  5. https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
  6. https://flask.palletsprojects.com

ML Cloud Training

  1. Free
    1. https://colab.research.google.com
    2. https://www.kaggle.com/
    3. Whatever service the hackathon gives credits for
  2. Paid
    1. https://cloud.google.com/
    2. https://aws.amazon.com/
    3. https://azure.microsoft.com

Cool ML Stuff

  1. Essential
    1. https://pandas.pydata.org/
    2. https://numpy.org/
    3. https://www.tensorflow.org/
    4. https://pytorch.org/
    5. https://scikit-learn.org/stable/
  2. Visualization
    1. https://matplotlib.org/
    2. https://seaborn.pydata.org/
    3. https://plotly.com/
    4. holoviz
  3. Newer tools
    1. https://github.com/facebookresearch/AugLy
      • Data augmentation library
    2. https://juliapackages.com/c/machine-learning
    3. https://kobra.dev/ (for beginners)
  4. NLP
    1. https://beta.openai.com/
    2. https://huggingface.co/
  5. Evolutionary Algorithms (just something I like)
    1. https://neat-python.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
    2. https://sharpneat.sourceforge.io/
    3. https://deap.readthedocs.io/en/master/
  6. Generative Stuff
    1. https://github.com/lucidrains/deep-daze
    2. https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2
  7. Recreate Cutting Edge Models
    1. https://paperswithcode.com/
    2. https://keras.io/
      • Prob best framework to recreate papers
  8. Miscellaneous
    1. https://gym.openai.com/
    2. https://julialang.org/

Hardware

  1. Computationally intensive tasks
    1. https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-kit
    2. https://www.raspberrypi.org/
  2. Lower level stuff
    1. https://www.arduino.cc/
  3. General resource
    1. https://hackaday.io/
  4. Sample Projects
    1. https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub
    2. https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects
    3. https://github.com/thibmaek/awesome-raspberry-pi
    4. https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/community/jetson-projects

Blockchain/Distributed Ledger (Meh)

  1. https://github.com/austintgriffith/scaffold-eth
    1. Fast Deploy Kit
  2. https://dev.to/dabit3/the-complete-guide-to-full-stack-ethereum-development-3j13
  3. https://github.com/wighawag/jolly-roger
    1. Svelte based

Testing/Demoing

  1. https://ngrok.com/
  2. https://pitcherific.com/
    1. Prez stuff
  3. https://openideo-resources.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/production/assets/1519.pdf
    1. Sample Slides
  4. https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-photos-that-dont-suck-62ae4bcbe01b
    1. Stock Photos That Don't Suck

Other

  1. https://justgetflux.com/
    1. Fix eye strain at night
  2. https://github.com/anishathalye/gave
    1. Cool judging software
  3. https://nyhackathons.com/tools/