Build time-saving solutions for your organization, from streamlining repetitive tasks to unlocking deeper workplace customization. You have the power to give your team and/or organization the tools that make work life simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.
Accelerate the deal cycle for sales, automate approvals for finance, resolve incidents faster for IT – the possibilities are endless! Whatever you decide, this is an opportunity to connect with your teammates to identify and build solutions for high impact problems --- all on Slack.
Slack Hackathon
What to Build
Build a new Slack app or workflow for your team or organization that boosts productivity, communication, and connection.
Categories: Your project should provide a solution for at least one of the following teams.
- Across your Digital HQ
- Sales
- Service & Frontline
- Engineering & Product
- IT & Operations
- Marketing & Design
- HR, Finance, Legal, & Corporate functions
See examples and more details on these teams.
What to Submit
- 3-minute video to explain and demonstrate your project
- Project abstract and detailed development approach
- Research summary, including how you identified the problem and solution
- Solution category tag(s)
- Access to your code repository, if possible, by sharing with testing@devpost.com
- Live demo upon request
Bonus: Participants who provide valuable feedback about the next generation of the Slack Platform (currently in beta) are eligible for extra cash prizes. Get access and details here.
Prizes
$47,000 in prizes
First Place
• $15,000
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
• Implementation or go-to-market support
Second Place
• $10,000
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
• Implementation or go-to-market support
Third Place
• $5500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
• Implementation or go-to-market support
Bonus Prize | Most Valuable Feedback for the next generation of the Slack Platform
(6)
$1000 awarded to the top 6 feedback providers
Honourable Mention for the Digital HQ (catch-all)
• $1500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
Honourable Mention for the Sales Team
• $1500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
Honourable Mention for the Service & Frontline Team
• $1500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
Honourable Mention for the Engineering & Product Team
• $1500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
Honourable Mention for the IT & Operations Team
• $1500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
Honourable Mention for the Marketing & Creative Team
• $1500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
Honourable Mention for the HR, Finance, & Corporate functions Team
• $1500
• Meeting with Slack Leadership
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges

Kim Graves
Head of Mid-Market Sales at Slack

Curtis Salinas
VP, Business Technology at Slack

Junan Pang
Customer Success Leader at Slack

Milena Talavera
VP of Engineering, Infrastructure at Slack

Liz Smyth
VP Marketing at Slack
Judging Criteria
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Impact
How big of an impact will your app have on the team you built it for? Get to know the team you are solving a problem for to make sure you are solving an actual problem. -
Originality
How creative and unique is your project? Try a new approach and open new and useful ways to use Slack. -
Quality and Completeness
Does the project demonstrate quality software development in its use of the Slack Platform and APIs? An app with less polish that demonstrates the end-to-end flow is better than a super-slick submission that only demonstrates part of the solution.
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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