What’s the fuzz about? We are talking about $30.000 max prize. Up to 1.000 available slots that every one of them can bring his team of up to 5 members. I am talking about some serious competition!

~50 professionals will examine our efforts and decide whose the best.

So, we gathered some friends, we have our engines started and we are ready to roll. But first we need to do our homework.

First, what is Koding.com? Is a Cloud VM provider powered with an awesome online IDE that you can code with right in your browser. The concept is simple: create your online development stack in a few clicks and start writing your code remotely, immediately.

It also embraces collaboration through social features built in their product.

It comes with a lot of awesome features and absolutely deserves a try.

Now on to the hackathon.

Koding.com offers a prize of $10.000 which is going to be split amongst the top 3 teams ($5k, $3k, $2k each). But sponsors offers even more on top of that if you use their services. Which are those sponsors? Let’s check it out.

• The famous open source web server, nginx, offers plus $5.000 if you use it for your project.
• The online public real time publish/subscribe service, PubNub, offers $1,000 to the team that makes the best use of their API.
• Embed online payment service, through Paypal and you get $2,500 more.
• There is no case where DATADOG can’t help you. Simply gather all of your logs, activities, software metrics in one place and get usefull data out of them. Use their API effectively and get an extra $1.000 plus.
• Mashape is a Cloud API Marketplace. Find your APIs that you need and consume them imiadetelly. No docs, no reference, more analytics, more speed. Use it for your project and win $1,000 more.
• Sprintly is an online project agile management that will nicely integrate with your Github (and more) account and measure your performance, check your development status and more. Make the most out of their API and win an extra $1,000.

But there are so more services and tools you can use, so get the $$ out of your head for a while.

Koding.com is going to announce some project themes among of which we are going to pick one to work on. Every asset and line of code must be written on that weekend, except of the open source libraries of course and i am suspecting that you can’t passed easily unnoticed of these judges. So, don’t cheat.

Last but not least:

“You will retain full ownership and rights to your creation. Be super awesome and have fun! Get creative, meet new people, make new friends and problem solve with them.”

Enough said. I am looking forward for the 6–7 of December. If you will be also hacking there too, get in touch, we have a lot to say. ☺

Update *: Koding.com announced the final schemes for the Hackathon. They have also increase the available slots to 2000. Prizes has been raized up to $35.000 and the prizes policy also changed. Check them out.