r/hackathon
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Discuss anything and everything hackathons! Hackathons are social coding events that bring people together to develop new projects in a short amount of time.
Members
8,619
as of February 2025
Last post
today
October 13, 2026
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2012
March 5, 2012
Total posts
11.5K
archived
Total comments
36.7K
archived
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r/hackathon had 8,619 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.
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r/hackathon was created on March 5, 2012.
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