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The Company That Made the Deadline a Product
Devpost began as a marketplace for challenges. Then it noticed the most interesting answers were software - and built a business around what happens when developers have a clock, a problem, and somewhere to show their work.
Kunal Kushwaha Built the Classroom He Couldn’t Find
Two failed entrance exams sent him toward a different education: open-source code, public questions and free tutorials. Now his WeMakeDevs community is trying to give other students a place to begin.
START Stuttgart gives student ambition a deadline
A free pitch night, a prototype sprint and a room full of people who might become your co-founders. Inside the student network turning entrepreneurship into something you actually have to do.
Startup Büro makes a business of bringing Georgia together
From failure stories on stage to games built over a weekend, Startup Büro gives Georgia’s entrepreneurial community practical reasons to meet. Its longer programs give founders something to do once they get there.
Imagine Creativity Center puts the brainstorm on a train
The Barcelona-Silicon Valley innovation company turns corporate challenges into working trips, prototypes and pitches. Its real test begins when the dreamers go home.
Kerala’s startup club puts a price on better conversation
Kerala Product Hunt grew from a college WhatsApp group into a community of more than 1,000 builders. Its wager: people will pay for a room where someone actually reads the product link.
Helsinki Think Company makes room for the first bad idea
Free workshops, campus workspaces and small grants give academic ideas somewhere to grow. Helsinki Think Company’s real product is the chance to try entrepreneurship before betting a livelihood on it.
Mike Swift Built a League for the Kids Who Would Rather Make Something
He arrived at his first hackathon expecting an elite coding contest. What he found was a room where beginners could belong - and a blueprint for more than a decade of building developer communities.
HackerEarth
HackerEarth is a developer-assessment and technical-hiring platform that helps companies screen, interview, and hire software engineers using automated coding tests, live coding interviews, and AI-driven interviewers. Founded in 2012 by IIT Roorkee alumni Sachin Gupta and Vivek Prakash, it pairs enterprise recruiting software with one of the largest developer communities in the world, built through years of hackathons and programming contests. Today it serves hundreds of enterprise customers and is repositioning around AI-powered interviewing and evaluation.