HackX

HackX is a cutting-edge, decentralized hackathon platform designed to foster innovation, collaboration, and long-term permanence in the developer community. Built with a focus on usability and transparency, HackX leverages InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) to store all critical data—hackathon details, project submissions, developer profiles, feedback, and scores—ensuring a tamper-proof, permanently accessible record. This open-source platform, released under an MIT license, empowers participants, organizers, and judges with intuitive tools while embracing decentralization to eliminate reliance on centralized servers.

Key Features:

• Hackathon Discovery: A central hub where users can search, filter, and sort active, upcoming, and past hackathons by keywords, dates, themes, or prizes, with events indexed via IPFS metadata for decentralized access.

• Event Details: Comprehensive pages for each hackathon, showcasing overviews, prizes, judges, schedules, and submitted projects, all stored on IPFS for permanence.

• Organizer Tools: A multi-step creation flow allows organizers to define events, upload assets to IPFS, and track community engagement, with optional analytics.

• Participant Experience: Seamless registration, team formation, and project submission (code, demos, videos) with all assets hosted on IPFS for a persistent developer record.

• Project Showcase: A filterable gallery of submissions with community features like upvotes and IPFS-stored comments to encourage interaction.

• Judging Workflow: A secure dashboard for judges to review projects, score based on criteria, and submit timestamped feedback, locked by deadlines and stored on IPFS for transparency.

• User & Admin Management: Dashboards for participants to manage profiles and submissions, and for admins to moderate events, with IPFS-backed reputation systems.

Vision:

HackX is more than a platform—it's a decentralized ecosystem for builders. It supports team matching, developer reputation tracking, and demo-ready deployments, all while maintaining open-source values with a public GitHub repo and live demo URL. As of September 11, 2025, HackX aims to redefine hackathons by combining futuristic technology with community-driven innovation, making it a go-to hub for developers worldwide.