r/hackathon
who needs sleep when there's free pizza
Founded March 2012 · Public — anyone can post
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
36,529
37K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
15.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 6.3 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+7.8%
+2.6K members · ≈34d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 14
sampled Oct 14
Distinct posters
90%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 10 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
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r/hackathon — frequently asked
How many members does r/hackathon have?
r/hackathon has 36,529 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 14. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/hackathon growing?
Over the last ≈34 days r/hackathon changed by +7.8% — a gain of 2.6K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/hackathon?
Around 15.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 6.3 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/hackathon created?
r/hackathon was founded in March 2012 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/hackathon?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 90% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 14. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/hackathon?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/hackathon yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/hackathon for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/hackathon into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/hackathon's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/hackathon's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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