You’re invited to the Product Hunt Makers Festival
Get your creative juices flowing and create something new with the Product Hunt community over Thanksgiving week
Our hackathon becomes Makers Festival
Last year at Product Hunt we ran our first ever online hackathon with over 4,000 makers competing from across the world.
This year we’re calling our hackathon a Makers Festival to encourage all types of makers, creators and tinkerers to participate and launch a project.
What it means to be a Maker
Before I joined the Product Hunt team I didn’t consider myself a Maker. Even though I had made plenty of stuff, I had never shared any of my projects with the community.
I thought that the Product Hunt community would expect my work to be perfect or technical. I now understand I had the wrong attitude.
Being a Maker is about showcasing your ideas (often in the simplest form) to solve a problem, to raise awareness or simply to delight others.
There’s a Maker in all of us whether we’re writing code or painting canvases. Building bots or knitting scarves. Hacking sites or remixing tracks.
Solve a problem for a theme or think outside the box
This year we have six themes. Your project could relate to one of them or you can work on something unrelated. The choice is yours.
Our themes are listed below with linked Product Hunt collections to inspire you.
We also made a No Code collection to remind you that coding is not an essential ingredient for launching a project.
What are you waiting for?
Fun fact: Product Hunt began as an email newsletter, born from idea to conception in 20 minutes. The early community’s response gave us conviction it could be so much more, and v1 of the site was built over Thanksgiving break, almost exactly five years ago. Remember, you can get pretty far in just a weekend.
Makers Festival is your opportunity to make something happen. Start a project and see what your seed of an idea will blossom into!
Sign up here to get involved.
Edit: Here is the timeline for clarity…
- Registrations open Monday 12th November and close Sunday 18th November at 11pm PT
- Assignments are announced with the submission form Monday 19th November and submissions close Saturday 24th November at 11pm PT
- All qualifying submissions will be shared on a special Makers Festival page announced Monday 26th November
- Winners announced Monday 3rd December
