about hackathon hong kong

what this is

Hackathon Hong Kong is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Hong Kong and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one.

Right now there are 5 upcoming events listed. That number moves every week — the collection run adds what it finds, and an event drops out of the main list into the archive once it has happened. The directory is new, so expect it to be on the thin side for a while; what is here is real.

We do not run hackathons. Every listing links out to the organiser's own page, which is where registration, rules, schedules and any questions about the event itself belong. Think of this as an index, not an intermediary.

where the listings come from

Listings are gathered automatically. Once a week, on a Sunday, a collection run checks the public event platforms that Hong Kong hackathon organisers actually use — Luma first of all, then Eventbrite, Meetup and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in Hong Kong, whether the listing calls it a hackathon (黑客松 in Chinese). Organisers can also add an event directly through the submit form.

Automated collection is the only way to keep a directory of this kind current, but it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:

• Hong Kong only. The risk is the Greater Bay Area: Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Macau listings sometimes tag themselves Hong Kong. An event is accepted when a Hong Kong venue, a .hk link, the Asia/Hong_Kong timezone, a Hong Kong university or company, or a Hong Kong district name confirms it.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify.
• Online events need a Hong Kong signal. An online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a local link, a local timezone, or Hong Kong-only eligibility rules.
• Still upcoming. Past events move to an archive section rather than the main listings.
• Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link or its title and merged into one listing.

how the listings are written

Once an event is accepted, its page is read and the details are pulled out — dates normalised to the local format (26 Sep 2026 / 2026年9月26日), prices to Hong Kong dollars, written HK$2,500 so they are never mistaken for the US, Australian or Singapore dollar editions this site links to, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser. Titles stay exactly as the organiser wrote them. Both scripts are read — 黑客松 and hackathon — and the search box matches either.

why there are no city pages

The whole Hong Kong calendar is one city, so this directory does not split listings across city pages: an event in Sha Tin, Kwun Tong or Clear Water Bay browses under Hong Kong, and each event page carries the exact venue. Shenzhen and Macau events are not Hong Kong events and are deliberately kept out. The one split that does carry information is in-person against online, and that is a filter on the homepage rather than a separate page.

money

The directory is funded by featured listings: an organiser can show their event as a banner on every page for seven days for a one-time fee. The order of ordinary listings is unaffected — it stays chronological.