Complement Your DevPost Hackathon with a HackerNoon Blogging Contest for Maximum Media Mentions

Hackathons are THE BEST way to drive real developer engagement and adoption. There’s nothing second to a hackathon when it comes to building developer relations. It’s a win-win recipe where developers win prizes and validation while driving adoption for companies. It’s a win-win: developers get prizes and validation, while companies drive adoption as well as generate real-world use cases. BUT. And it’s a big BUT. Do these awesome new projects and use cases get their well-deserved distribution and online proof? Not really. These projects are built and submitted. Winners are announced. And then, all too often, they disappear into a Devpost project page. We can change that!Your Devpost Hackathon x HackerNoon Blogging Contest.We have a win-win-win proposal for you. Give developers a reason to turn their hackathon projects into stories, and give those stories a platform built for tech audiences. Now we get developer adoption, new use cases, and a permanent online proof of these use cases for your community and customers to see.And there’s more:HackerNoon Blogging Contests can help you:Give projects distribution beyond the hackathon platform: With HackerNoon’s 4 million monthly readers and 1 million social media followers, maximise Extend the life of your technology hackathon with content that remains discoverable long after winners are announced - hundreds of evergreen HackerNoon announcements, blog post submissions by participants, social media announcements and mentions, and press release distributionGenerate SEO, GEO & AEO visibility around your hackathon, sponsors, technologies, and use cases. With domain authority of 87, publishing organic developer journey stories with HackerNoon gives you an instant GEO and SEO boost. Create more social media moments as participants share their published stories and projectsDrive product adoption by showcasing real-world applications built with your technologyGive your Hackathon additional visibility through HackerNoon announcements and authentic, participant-led stories Build a lasting content library around your hackathon instead of letting all that innovation live on a single project pageCase Study: HackerNoon × RevenueCat Shipaton Writing ContestShipaton Blogging Contest by RevenueCat & HackerNoonDevpost Hackathon: Shipaton by RevenueCatBlogging Contest: HackerNoon × Shipaton Blogging ContestDuration: August 1 – September 30, 2026Prize Pool: $2,500The Results So Far30+ articles published in the first 2 weeksPress release, global announcement, and RevenueCat's guideEvergreen SEO, GEO & AEO proofStrong Google News visibility for “Shipaton”The idea is to extend Shipaton beyond the actual building experience and encourage participants to write about what they build, how they build it, and what they learn.Participants can turn their hackathon journey into HackerNoon stories covering:What they build and whyTechnical architecture and implementationChallenges they encounter while buildingHow they use RevenueCat or other technologiesLessons learned during the hackathonProduct decisions and iterationsA breakdown of their winning projectWhat they would do differently next timeWhy this works for the hackathon organizerInstead of the hackathon ending with a collection of Devpost submissions, you create a second layer of content and distribution around the event.For Shipaton, the HackerNoon partnership includes a co-branded landing page, launch announcement, homepage promotion, newsletter promotion, and social amplification, alongside the writing contest.And the results are already measurable: 30 stories in just two weeks, creating an expanding library of evergreen content around the hackathon while giving the Shipaton brand additional visibility across search, Google News, social channels, and HackerNoon’s tech audience.Your Devpost hackathon captures what developers build. A HackerNoon blogging contest captures the story behind those builds, and gives them the distribution and lasting online proof they deserve. Chat with us to discuss how you can maximise your Hackathon's impact.