Presentation Timer VS HackathonHub.xyz

HackathonHub.xyz's answer:

Because you run the whole event from one place — registration through final report — instead of stitching together a submission site, a scoring spreadsheet, a chat for logistics, and email for certificates. The big platforms get you to "submissions collected" and leave the live day to you; that's exactly the part we handle. Your jury won't lose work or score chaotically, your event is white-labeled as yours rather than ours, and we speak your region's languages. We're the right choice if you're running a live event and want control on the day. If you just need a public submission gallery for a massive online contest, an established platform might suit you better — we'd rather be honest about that than oversell.

HackathonHub.xyz's answer:

Most platforms stop at collecting and judging submissions. We built HackathonHub around the part everyone else leaves to spreadsheets and group chats: actually running the live day. Our Live Control cockpit handles pitch and Q&A timers, queue reordering, projector screens, and real-time updates as the event happens. On top of that we give each role its own space — host, organiser, jury, mentor, team, and guest — including written mentor feedback teams can read afterward, which most tools skip. Our scoring is built so juries don't lose work or score inconsistently: every keystroke auto-saves, scores sit side by side for comparison, and penalties are weighted. In short, we're a control room for live events, not another submission database.

HackathonHub.xyz's answer:

The people running the event, not the ones competing in it. Our core users are small-to-mid organisers of live events — game jam hosts, hackathon organisers, university clubs, dev communities, accelerators — the kind currently juggling spreadsheets and chats to pull an event off. We also serve corporate and institutional hosts who need branded events and proper reporting to justify them to sponsors or leadership. Jury, mentors, and teams use the product too, but the organiser is who we build for.

HackathonHub.xyz's answer:

We didn't start with a product — we started with the problems. Over 5+ years of organising hackathons and game jams, we ran into the same headaches every single time: scores lost in spreadsheets, logistics buried in group chats, judges unsure who was pitching next, certificates and reports cobbled together by hand after everyone went home. We kept patching it with whatever tools were lying around, and none of them were built for the chaos of a live event. HackathonHub is what happened when we stopped patching and decided to put everything we'd learned into one platform. Every feature comes from a real moment we lived through as organisers — the auto-saving scores, the live control cockpit, the role-based views, the one-click certificates and reports. It's the tool we wish we'd had at our first event, built by the people who kept running into the gaps. So the short version: five-plus years of running events, every lesson and fix assembled into a single platform — so the next organiser doesn't have to learn it all the hard way like we did.