Private user • 25 days ago
Clarification on eligibility timeline
Hi there,
I was hoping you could add more detail around eligibility for a project that uses code from before the hackathon start period. Our situation is that we wanted to enter a version of a tool we built for ourselves roughly a month before the May 19 window but started the public-facing subscription-based hosted version of the app after the hackathon period. Is this acceptable or should we drop the project?
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Janet Fang Manager • 19 days ago
Great question! For this hackathon, projects must be newly created after the start of the Submission Period (May 19 – Aug 17, 2026). A project created before that date is not eligible, regardless of whether it was publicly released or not — so a tool you built for yourself before May 19 would not qualify as the submitted project.
That said, you're welcome to reuse pre-existing generic templates, frameworks, boilerplates, or code snippets as building blocks for a new project, as long as you clearly explain how your submission utilized any pre-existing work in your description.
You can review the full rules at https://xprize.devpost.com/rules — hope that helps clarify things!