One of the best parts of our community is that it allows people to meet and make connections with others, regardless of where you live. Form a guild of hackers and fight for a spot on the leaderboard. Who wouldn’t want bragging rights for having one of the most active guilds within the LHD: Share and the MLH community?
There’s strength in numbers, so ade marketig templates. Remember, sharing is caring - so use these to share the excitement with your local community, friends, and classmates! The more members your guild has, the more points you’ll earn and the faster you’ll climb your way up the leaderboard.
Getting more friends in your guild is one of the best parts of Local Hack Day: Build. Below are our top 5 marketing tips for sharing your guild.
1. Use our pre-made marketing templetes on your social media!
2. Invite your classmates to attend.
3. Reach out to student groups and departments on your campus or nearby campus.
4. Send your friends and family and personal invitation.
5. Post in discord and share what makes your guild special.
Local Hack Day: Learn is a global week-long conference that you can share with your community. You can pick up the new skills you need by participating in workshops and talks with a community around the world. Over the course of 12 hours, attendees will experience a series of workshops where they’ll learn skills such as publishing their first website using AWS, sending their first SMS with Twilio, and building their first game in Unity. This is an event for all skill levels, from beginners to the most veteran developers. Workshop attendees will learn skills that they can apply in their projects, schoolwork, job, and beyond.
Try using Replit's free hosting tool to share one of the projects you're working on. Submit on Devpost when you're up and running!
Earn a Bronze Medal in the Battlesnake Spring League and Share a link to your Profile on our Weekend Challenges Form
We know many of you completed the Linode Weekly Challenges. Throughout this weekend, we want you to share that skill and record a video tutorial on how you conquered the challenge. Share it in Discord and send us a screenshot and link on the Weekend Challenges Form.
Linode has a ton of awesome tutorials available here. Pick one out and show us what you created on our Weekend Challenges Devpost.
Did you know Among Us is hosted on Linode? Gather up a group of hackers and play a game of Among Us. Send us a screenshot on the Weekend Challenges Form.
You already shared coffee/ tea with your guild, so it’s time to do the same with someone in a different guild. Send us a screenshot of your video call on the Weekend Challenges Form.
You’ve done so much this week, and we want to make sure it shows. Head over to GitHub to update your profile so that you can share with the world all you did this week. To claim these points, submit a screenshot on our Weekend Challenges Form to earn your points!
Head over to your guild chat and share a resource with them that’s helped you this week. It could be a video tutorial, blog post, stack overflow answer, or anything else that helped ya out this week. Post a screenshot of your message on our Weekend Challenges form.
Throughout the pandemic, so many people around the world have taken to music to fill the time. Create a way for someone to enjoy playing music online. You could create a digital piano, guitar, or any other instrument you enjoy. “Submit to devpost?” That’s music to our ears.
Ever receive a business card but don’t want to take the time to type all the details in? We’re challenging you to create an application that will scan business cards and store the data. Submit to Devpost.
Generative art continues to become more and more popular, so we want you to try it out yourself. Create any piece of art with technology and show it off on Devpost.
Make sure you’re getting away from your computer to nourish your body this weekend. Cook one of your favorite dishes and share it on the Weekend Challenges Form. While you’re at it, drop a photo in Discord as well!
Show us your hometown pride and design a sticker for the place you call home. Design yours in the style of MLH I-Demoed sticker (hexagonal sticker with 1.74x2 dimensions) and sent it to us on this form.
Most of us have gotten used to how phones look, but what would you do if you could completely reimagine this? Completely redesign what a cell phone could look like call me beep me to demo on Devpost.
Try incorporating Bootstrap, Foundation, HTML Boilerplate, or any other front-end framework into a website - either one you’ve already created or spin up a new one. Show it to us on the Weekend Devpost.
We know a ton of you have been using GitHub this week, and we want to see what your activity has looked like during Local Hack Day. Send us a screenshot on our Weekend Challenges Form.
Try incorporating GPS or any map technology into a new project - or even add it into an existing one. We don’t want you to get lost so we’ve linked the Weekend Devpost.
We love mascots and think it’s a shame not every product has one. Pick out a programming language or tool you love and design a mascot for it. Submit your creation on the Weekend Challenges Form.
We all love hacking, but we’ve all got other passions too. Whether that’s Boba, Corgis, Sharks, Dinos, or something else entirely, we want to see you share your passions. Create a presentation for something you care about. Submit the materials on our Devpost.
One of the best ways to share with friends and family is using social media applications like twitter, instragram, facebook, etc. Try creating a clone of your favorite social media and share it with us over on our Weekend Devpost.
Build something that sends messages (we were inspired by postcards) to others. This is a great opportunity to share something with those you care about. Submit on our Weekend Devpost.
Local Hack Day: Build is in part powered by some helpful Discord bots. We’d love to see you create your own Discord/Slack Bot or any other chat bot you’d like. Tell us all about it on the Weekend Devpost.
Incorporating Natural Language Processing into a project adds a great level of sophistication. Think about how this could improve user input, analyze comments, or scrape twitter. Show us how you used Natural Language Processing On the Weekend Devpost.
The classic MLH mini event is back with a bit of a twist. Join us to try to build the largest cup tower you can - no coding required here. Submit your tower on the Weekend Form.
If you’ve been attending hackathons this season, you’ve likely seen this mini event. Come ready to listen to Bob’s relaxing voice and recreate a masterpiece in MS Paint. You’ll get a point for checking into the mini event as well as a point for sharing your masterpiece out on social media and tagging us with #localhackday and @mlhacks. Send us a link to your post on the Day 5 Form.
Try using Replit's free hosting tool to share one of the projects you're working on. Submit on Devpost when you're up and running!
Earn a Bronze Medal in the Battlesnake Spring League and Share a link to your Profile on our Weekend Challenges Form
We know many of you completed the Linode Weekly Challenges. Throughout this weekend, we want you to share that skill and record a video tutorial on how you conquered the challenge. Share it in Discord and send us a screenshot and link on the Weekend Challenges Form.
Linode has a ton of awesome tutorials available here. Pick one out and show us what you created on our Weekend Challenges Devpost.
Did you know Among Us is hosted on Linode? Gather up a group of hackers and play a game of Among Us. Send us a screenshot on the Weekend Challenges Form.
You already shared coffee/ tea with your guild, so it’s time to do the same with someone in a different guild. Send us a screenshot of your video call on the Weekend Challenges Form.
You’ve done so much this week, and we want to make sure it shows. Head over to GitHub to update your profile so that you can share with the world all you did this week. To claim these points, submit a screenshot on our Weekend Challenges Form to earn your points!
Head over to your guild chat and share a resource with them that’s helped you this week. It could be a video tutorial, blog post, stack overflow answer, or anything else that helped ya out this week. Post a screenshot of your message on our Weekend Challenges form.
Throughout the pandemic, so many people around the world have taken to music to fill the time. Create a way for someone to enjoy playing music online. You could create a digital piano, guitar, or any other instrument you enjoy. “Submit to devpost?” That’s music to our ears.
Ever receive a business card but don’t want to take the time to type all the details in? We’re challenging you to create an application that will scan business cards and store the data. Submit to Devpost.
Generative art continues to become more and more popular, so we want you to try it out yourself. Create any piece of art with technology and show it off on Devpost.
Make sure you’re getting away from your computer to nourish your body this weekend. Cook one of your favorite dishes and share it on the Weekend Challenges Form. While you’re at it, drop a photo in Discord as well!
Show us your hometown pride and design a sticker for the place you call home. Design yours in the style of MLH I-Demoed sticker (hexagonal sticker with 1.74x2 dimensions) and sent it to us on this form.
Most of us have gotten used to how phones look, but what would you do if you could completely reimagine this? Completely redesign what a cell phone could look like call me beep me to demo on Devpost.
Try incorporating Bootstrap, Foundation, HTML Boilerplate, or any other front-end framework into a website - either one you’ve already created or spin up a new one. Show it to us on the Weekend Devpost.
We know a ton of you have been using GitHub this week, and we want to see what your activity has looked like during Local Hack Day. Send us a screenshot on our Weekend Challenges Form.
Try incorporating GPS or any map technology into a new project - or even add it into an existing one. We don’t want you to get lost so we’ve linked the Weekend Devpost.
We love mascots and think it’s a shame not every product has one. Pick out a programming language or tool you love and design a mascot for it. Submit your creation on the Weekend Challenges Form.
We all love hacking, but we’ve all got other passions too. Whether that’s Boba, Corgis, Sharks, Dinos, or something else entirely, we want to see you share your passions. Create a presentation for something you care about. Submit the materials on our Devpost.
One of the best ways to share with friends and family is using social media applications like twitter, instragram, facebook, etc. Try creating a clone of your favorite social media and share it with us over on our Weekend Devpost.
Build something that sends messages (we were inspired by postcards) to others. This is a great opportunity to share something with those you care about. Submit on our Weekend Devpost.
Local Hack Day: Build is in part powered by some helpful Discord bots. We’d love to see you create your own Discord/Slack Bot or any other chat bot you’d like. Tell us all about it on the Weekend Devpost.
Incorporating Natural Language Processing into a project adds a great level of sophistication. Think about how this could improve user input, analyze comments, or scrape twitter. Show us how you used Natural Language Processing On the Weekend Devpost.
The classic MLH mini event is back with a bit of a twist. Join us to try to build the largest cup tower you can - no coding required here. Submit your tower on the Weekend Form.
If you’ve been attending hackathons this season, you’ve likely seen this mini event. Come ready to listen to Bob’s relaxing voice and recreate a masterpiece in MS Paint. You’ll get a point for checking into the mini event as well as a point for sharing your masterpiece out on social media and tagging us with #localhackday and @mlhacks. Send us a link to your post on the Day 5 Form.
First things first, we want to get you registered! Check to make sure you’re signed up and checked in to earn yourself your first points. It's as easy as that!
After registering, you’ll need to provide us with a bit more information to be eligible to receive swag. We use this information you provide here to run LHD: Share (tracking and awarding you points)! Fill it out now!
Head to hackp.ac/Address to make sure we have an updated address so we can send you swag! If you’ve submitted before, you don’t need to submit again (you'll still get a point)!
Join us on Discord! If you’re not familiar with Discord, make sure to follow the steps in #🚦-get-started and #lhd-share-check-in!
We want you to join a community-led guild during LHD: Share! These are a great place to meet other hackers, and we’ll have challenges you can only complete with the help of your guildmates. Head to the #lhd-share-looking-for-guild or #lhd-share-join-my-guild in our Community Discord to find your hacker family. You can join a guild at discord.mlh.io.
Head to hackp.ac/LHDShareLinode and sign up to receive $100 in platform credits. We have plenty of Linode specific challenges for you to tackle this week, so sign up early. Submit a screenshot of your account to our week-long form.
Apply to be a MLH Fellow, where you can spend 12-weeks remotely leveling up your skills & building out your portfolio under the guidance of an expert mentor. If you’ve applied to the Fellowship previously, you’ll earn points automatically. If you haven’t applied yet, apply this week to earn points!
Think about the items you share on a daily basis, because we want you to automate one! You could create a twitter bot that says good morning or a script that shares a daily pet photo with your friends. Pick any task, automate it, and submit your hack on our Week-Long Devpost!
Crypto/blockchain applications seem to get more and more popular! Try incorporating blockchain into a project and send it to us (securely) on devpost.
The hacker community is incredibly diverse, so we’d love to see you create something to allow you to share around the world. Build an application to help translate between languages - you could translate sign language or spoken languages! Submit your hack on our Week-Long Devpost!
Calling all artists and designers! For this challenge, we want you to imagine a fictional company and create a branding concept for it. You can make this as detailed or simple as you’d like. You could make logos, flyers, a website mockup, social posts, or anything else you need your fictional company might use! Submit your work on our Week-Long Devpost!
Many of us have browser extensions we rely on. Make one of your own to help make your web-surfing experience better. Share with us on our Week-Long Devpost.
Have you ever wanted to turn one of your projects into a startup? Create a business plan - it could be for a project you’ve made, something you’ve dreamt up, or even a product that already exists. The goal of this is to take some time to think about how you would share a product with the world. Consider including a market analysis, financial projections, and management plans and submit on our Week-Long Devpost.
Whether you’re tackling budgeting for college students or financial modeling for stock markets, we want to see you create something inspired by finance. This can be as simple as looking at data from one or two stocks, or as complex as a holistic view of someone’s finances. Submit your hack on our Week-long Devpost.
Create an application to help folks stay healthy. This could be a step counter, database with healthy recipes, or application that tracks symptoms. Submit your hack on our Week-Long Devpost!
Much of the sharing many of us do on a day-to-day basis takes place on our phones. That’s why we want you to try creating a mobile app this week. It can be any type of app on any platform. Share it on our Week-Long Devpost when you’re done.
We know hackers always want to learn web scraping at hackathons, so we want to encourage you to explore this subject during LHD: Share. Your project could scrape class data to help students plan their course schedule, look into grocery store prices to compile the best sales, or anything else that you can share with your community to help others out. Submit on our Week-Long Devpost!
Having a personal website up and running is a great way to share with the world the things you’re working on. Use Linode to deploy your personal website and show it off on the Weeklong Devpost.
Use NameStudio to register your .com domain name and get ready to deploy your website! Share it with us on the Week-Long Devpost.
Choose any of the projects you’re currently working on (or create a new one!) and deploy it using Linode. Share it on the Weeklong Devpost.
Check out Tabnine and use it in any code you’re writing this week. Submit the code you wrote on our Weeklong Devpost.
Guild Leaders, we’re asking you (or Guild Members you’ve allowed) to host events this weekend. You’re welcome to host technical content, mini-events, or anything else. You and your Guild Member will get points for up to 4 events you host. To earn your points, email localhackday@mlh.io a .csv with email in Column A and a unique event name in Column B. All your events should be in one .csv. If you’re looking for mini-event ideas, check out our Organizer Guide.
Your guild would feel even more official with a website, right? Create one and show it off on our Week-Long Devpost. You’ll even earn more points for more contributors, just make sure each contributor submits individually on the Week-Long Devpost
Our friends at HackYou (a Member Event hackathon in APAC) are looking for more hackers! You can register today for their event. The event is taking place on the 10th and 11th of April.
Each year, Major League Hacking empowers thousands of hackers all over the world. We want you to be part of our 2022 Hackathon Season. Join us for a week of celebrating all things hacking and kicking off our next season.
We'll have challenges for all technical and experience levels to complete all week, swag for you to earn (so you can start your season in style), and announcements about what MLH is doing to empower you going forward.
In addition to the amazing community organized events we work with (Member Events), MLH hosts a digital hackathon right on the MLH Community Discord every weekend. Any hackers signed up for an upcoming Hosted by MLH event will earn a point per event they’re registered for automatically!
We’d love to see you build a hack or project that leverages search! If you’re looking for a cool tool to use, Jina.ai is joining the MLH community in late April. Get a sneak peek at their platform now. Submit on our Weeklong Devpost when you're done!
We know that new hackers especially struggle with setting their first database, so we want you to explore databases this week in a low stake environment. Our friends at DataStax have 5GB of free storage for you. No credit card needed to sign up! Add a database to any project and share with us on our Weeklong Devpost.
MLH sends out a hacker newsletter every two weeks to let you know about awesome events, upcoming prize competitions, resources, and more! Sign up to make sure you are in the know. Use the same email you used for LHD: Share, and we’ll award you your points automatically.
Check into any of our live sessions going on this week. MLHers will be completing LHD challenges live, so you’ll be able to follow along with them. You’ll earn a point for checking into the session itself, and an additional point for completing the challenge!
Check in to any of our mini-events going on this week. You’ll earn a point for checking into the session itself, and some mini-events will have bonus points for participating.
Check into any of our Localhost workshops going on this week. You can find the schedule on our website. You’ll earn a point for checking into the workshop itself, and an additional point for completing the quiz at the end of the presentation.
Head to Twitch and livestream yourself completing any one of our daily or week-long challenges. Be sure to use the the hashtag #LocalHackDay! This challenge is repeatable once daily. Submit a screenshot on our week-long form!
Use #LocalHackDay and tag @mlhacks on your Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn posts this week to earn points! This challenge is repeatable once daily. If your post includes a photo, you could get reshared on the MLH platforms. Submit a screenshot on our Week-Long Form!
First things first, we want to get you registered! Check to make sure you’re signed up and checked in to earn yourself your first points. It's as easy as that!
After registering, you’ll need to provide us with a bit more information to be eligible to receive swag. We use this information you provide here to run LHD: Share (tracking and awarding you points)! Fill it out now!
Head to hackp.ac/Address to make sure we have an updated address so we can send you swag! If you’ve submitted before, you don’t need to submit again (you'll still get a point)!
Join us on Discord! If you’re not familiar with Discord, make sure to follow the steps in #🚦-get-started and #lhd-share-check-in!
We want you to join a community-led guild during LHD: Share! These are a great place to meet other hackers, and we’ll have challenges you can only complete with the help of your guildmates. Head to the #lhd-share-looking-for-guild or #lhd-share-join-my-guild in our Community Discord to find your hacker family. You can join a guild at discord.mlh.io.
Head to hackp.ac/LHDShareLinode and sign up to receive $100 in platform credits. We have plenty of Linode specific challenges for you to tackle this week, so sign up early. Submit a screenshot of your account to our week-long form.
Apply to be a MLH Fellow, where you can spend 12-weeks remotely leveling up your skills & building out your portfolio under the guidance of an expert mentor. If you’ve applied to the Fellowship previously, you’ll earn points automatically. If you haven’t applied yet, apply this week to earn points!
Think about the items you share on a daily basis, because we want you to automate one! You could create a twitter bot that says good morning or a script that shares a daily pet photo with your friends. Pick any task, automate it, and submit your hack on our Week-Long Devpost!
Crypto/blockchain applications seem to get more and more popular! Try incorporating blockchain into a project and send it to us (securely) on devpost.
The hacker community is incredibly diverse, so we’d love to see you create something to allow you to share around the world. Build an application to help translate between languages - you could translate sign language or spoken languages! Submit your hack on our Week-Long Devpost!
Calling all artists and designers! For this challenge, we want you to imagine a fictional company and create a branding concept for it. You can make this as detailed or simple as you’d like. You could make logos, flyers, a website mockup, social posts, or anything else you need your fictional company might use! Submit your work on our Week-Long Devpost!
Many of us have browser extensions we rely on. Make one of your own to help make your web-surfing experience better. Share with us on our Week-Long Devpost.
Have you ever wanted to turn one of your projects into a startup? Create a business plan - it could be for a project you’ve made, something you’ve dreamt up, or even a product that already exists. The goal of this is to take some time to think about how you would share a product with the world. Consider including a market analysis, financial projections, and management plans and submit on our Week-Long Devpost.
Whether you’re tackling budgeting for college students or financial modeling for stock markets, we want to see you create something inspired by finance. This can be as simple as looking at data from one or two stocks, or as complex as a holistic view of someone’s finances. Submit your hack on our Week-long Devpost.
Create an application to help folks stay healthy. This could be a step counter, database with healthy recipes, or application that tracks symptoms. Submit your hack on our Week-Long Devpost!
Much of the sharing many of us do on a day-to-day basis takes place on our phones. That’s why we want you to try creating a mobile app this week. It can be any type of app on any platform. Share it on our Week-Long Devpost when you’re done.
We know hackers always want to learn web scraping at hackathons, so we want to encourage you to explore this subject during LHD: Share. Your project could scrape class data to help students plan their course schedule, look into grocery store prices to compile the best sales, or anything else that you can share with your community to help others out. Submit on our Week-Long Devpost!
Having a personal website up and running is a great way to share with the world the things you’re working on. Use Linode to deploy your personal website and show it off on the Weeklong Devpost.
Use NameStudio to register your .com domain name and get ready to deploy your website! Share it with us on the Week-Long Devpost.
Choose any of the projects you’re currently working on (or create a new one!) and deploy it using Linode. Share it on the Weeklong Devpost.
Check out Tabnine and use it in any code you’re writing this week. Submit the code you wrote on our Weeklong Devpost.
Guild Leaders, we’re asking you (or Guild Members you’ve allowed) to host events this weekend. You’re welcome to host technical content, mini-events, or anything else. You and your Guild Member will get points for up to 4 events you host. To earn your points, email localhackday@mlh.io a .csv with email in Column A and a unique event name in Column B. All your events should be in one .csv. If you’re looking for mini-event ideas, check out our Organizer Guide.
Your guild would feel even more official with a website, right? Create one and show it off on our Week-Long Devpost. You’ll even earn more points for more contributors, just make sure each contributor submits individually on the Week-Long Devpost
Our friends at HackYou (a Member Event hackathon in APAC) are looking for more hackers! You can register today for their event. The event is taking place on the 10th and 11th of April.
Each year, Major League Hacking empowers thousands of hackers all over the world. We want you to be part of our 2022 Hackathon Season. Join us for a week of celebrating all things hacking and kicking off our next season.
We'll have challenges for all technical and experience levels to complete all week, swag for you to earn (so you can start your season in style), and announcements about what MLH is doing to empower you going forward.
In addition to the amazing community organized events we work with (Member Events), MLH hosts a digital hackathon right on the MLH Community Discord every weekend. Any hackers signed up for an upcoming Hosted by MLH event will earn a point per event they’re registered for automatically!
We’d love to see you build a hack or project that leverages search! If you’re looking for a cool tool to use, Jina.ai is joining the MLH community in late April. Get a sneak peek at their platform now. Submit on our Weeklong Devpost when you're done!
We know that new hackers especially struggle with setting their first database, so we want you to explore databases this week in a low stake environment. Our friends at DataStax have 5GB of free storage for you. No credit card needed to sign up! Add a database to any project and share with us on our Weeklong Devpost.
MLH sends out a hacker newsletter every two weeks to let you know about awesome events, upcoming prize competitions, resources, and more! Sign up to make sure you are in the know. Use the same email you used for LHD: Share, and we’ll award you your points automatically.
Check into any of our live sessions going on this week. MLHers will be completing LHD challenges live, so you’ll be able to follow along with them. You’ll earn a point for checking into the session itself, and an additional point for completing the challenge!
Check in to any of our mini-events going on this week. You’ll earn a point for checking into the session itself, and some mini-events will have bonus points for participating.
Check into any of our Localhost workshops going on this week. You can find the schedule on our website. You’ll earn a point for checking into the workshop itself, and an additional point for completing the quiz at the end of the presentation.
Head to Twitch and livestream yourself completing any one of our daily or week-long challenges. Be sure to use the the hashtag #LocalHackDay! This challenge is repeatable once daily. Submit a screenshot on our week-long form!
Use #LocalHackDay and tag @mlhacks on your Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn posts this week to earn points! This challenge is repeatable once daily. If your post includes a photo, you could get reshared on the MLH platforms. Submit a screenshot on our Week-Long Form!
Everyone is welcome to participate in Local Hack Day regardless of experience level, student status, or age. Each day there will be challenges geared towards beginners, so even if you’ve never coded before, there’s something here for you.
Everyone is welcome at Local Hack Day regardless of their coding experience. Many participants use Local Hack Day as an opportunity to learn some coding skills and network with other beginners. In fact, we have programming and workshops specifically for hackers just starting out!
We want to make sure that MLH Local Hack Day events create a safe and welcoming environment for attendees and organizers. For this reason the MLH Code of Conduct should be followed throughout the duration of each event.
Local Hack Day is organized by Major League Hacking (MLH). MLH is the official global hacker community.
It's free to participate in MLH's Local Hack Day. Grab your laptop and join in on the fun activities and workshops.
Don't worry! We're here to help. Just send an email with your questions to localhackday@mlh.io and we'll get back to you within 2 - 3 business days.
