The repo outlives the weekend. Now the chat does too.
A hackathon produces 48 hours of questions, answers and late-night fixes. Keep them somewhere that won't forget them in 90 days.
A free Slack workspace, or Probed
Organisers usually set up a free Slack or a Discord server the week before, and both get you through the weekend. But Slack's free plan hides the event after 90 days and deletes it after a year, and a rushed Discord server turns into channel sprawl someone has to look after.
Why it fits
- Live in minutes
- Create the space, add announcements and find-a-team, and put the join link on the event page.
- A channel per team
- Paid plans have unlimited channels, so every team gets a room and mentors can drop into any of them.
- Voice rooms for mentors and demos
- Run office hours and remote demos in voice rooms with screen share, with no meeting links to juggle.
- The archive is the yearbook
- Winning threads and mentor answers stay searchable, so next year's hackers can see what the weekend was like.
Set it up
Create the space the week before, with announcements, find-a-team and a voice room.
Put the join link on the event page and the check-in QR code.
During the event, add a channel per team.
After judging, post the results and leave the space up.
$19
a month for a 100-person hackathon, on Premium. Members never pay.
A 100-person hackathon fits Premium at $19 a month, and the 14-day free trial covers a weekend.
Compare plans →Common questions
How fast can we set up a hackathon space?
Minutes. Create the space, add a few channels and share one join link. Participants join in the browser with nothing to install.
What does Probed cost for a hackathon?
Per space, not per hacker: free for up to 25 members, $19 a month on Premium for up to 250 and $99 a month on Business for up to 2,500. Participants never pay.
Why not use Discord for our hackathon?
Discord works, and plenty of hackers already have it. Probed keeps the space focused on your event, adds an ideas board people can vote on, and keeps a clean archive future participants can search.