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Railway User Hackathon

Build and create projects, templates, and content to win up to $1000 in cash prizes

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Timeline

Mark your calendar: develop, submit, and vote to win

Hackathon Starts

Wed, Aug 6th @ 8am ET

Projects must be created after this date
Form opens for submissions

Submissions Close

Mon, Aug 11th @ 12pm ET

Submit project, template, and content
No updates after this date

Community Voting

Aug 11th - 14th

Vote on station.railway.com
Emoji reactions count as votes

Winners Announced

Fri, Aug 15th

Via socials, changelog, and email
Prizes distributed

Submission Categories

You can win through both categories, all are equally important to us, the organizers.

Software Track
A project and template that you built with your warm, alive, hands. (Or with a LLM.)
Content Track
Write a guide to help others learn how to use the platform for a particular use case.

Submission Criteria

Make sure your submission meets all the requirements to be considered

Required Criteria

All submissions must meet these basic requirements to be eligible for prizes and credits.

  • Create Railway project after start date

  • Your Railway project is public

  • Create template from your project

  • Create written content showcasing project

  • Meet basic depth criteria

Optional Enhancements

These additional steps to boost your own content discoverability.

  • Publish template to marketplace

  • Post on social media about project

Did someone say prizes?
Everyone wins, but some win bigger! Two chances for a $1000 prize. We will also be handing out credits and accolades to top category submissions.
All passing submissions get $25 of Railway credit
1st Place: $1,000 cash
2nd Place: $500 cash
3rd Place: $200 cash

Ideas & Suggestions

Need inspiration? Here are some ideas for content and templates we would love to see

AI and MLOps
We're seeing a lot of interest in AI and LLMs. We're excited to see how you can wrap models into agents on our platform.
Headless CMSes
Marketing tech is booming. Everyone is a developer now. We want to see how devs can enable marketing teams to build more better faster.
Modern Frameworks
There's an explosion of new frameworks, and we're looking for new templates that showcase how they can be deployed on Railway.
The Next Big Thing
Many companies start on Railway. If you've been interested in building a new product, why not submit here?
Technical Content
As much as we like LLMs, there's nothing like an opinionated guide that helps users. If you're one to teach, we'd love it.
Community Requests
Ever wanted to get involed in Railway's community? Our users would love to guide you towards the biggest opportunities.

Build something amazing

Join the Railway community hackathon and show us what you can create. The form opens August 6th - mark your calendar!

Registration Opens Aug 6thJoin Discord Community

Questions? Ask in our Discord #hackathon25 channel