TikTok Hackathon aims to provide you with a platform to come together to break boundaries, unleash creativity and showcase your coding capabilities as you build solutions for real-world problems or drive innovation. Through our workshops, you will have the chance to learn more about our teams and be inspired by the key technologies we use to drive product development. There will be 4 key challenge areas for you to choose from: Reshaping payments, Integrity Data Science, Privacy Innovation, and E-commerce

You will be required to form teams and choose a single Problem Statement from those provided and build a solution

Key Dates

3 September - End of Registration
4 September to 6 September - Virtual Training Workshops
4 September 7:00 a.m. to 9 September 11:45 p.m. - Submission Period
10 September 7:00 a.m. to 13 September 11:45 p.m. - Public Voting
13 September 12:00 p.m. - Announcement of finalists for Demo Day
15 September - 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. - Closing Ceremony & Prize Presentation

Requirements

All teams should have a team name, and be registered with Devpost
The Devpost project page should include:
- Brief biographies of all team members
- Short abstract of the project
- Product demo URL or video (Is optional for Optimize advertisement moderation)

- Chosen Problem statement
- Development tools used to build the project
- APIs used in the project
- Assets used in the project
- Libraries used in the project
- Any components not created at the hackathon
- A link to the team's Github repository with Readme

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$11,790 in prizes

Top 5 Overall Submissions (Judge's Choice) (5)

- 1st prize - 8,000 SGD
- 2nd prize - 4,000 SGD
- 3rd prize - 2,000 SGD
- 4th prize and 5th Prize - 1,000 SGD each
Total: 16, 000 SGD (About 11,790 USD)

Top 3 Overall Submissions (People's Choice) (3)

We will provide a Sony headphone for each team member to the top three teams in the public voting

Judges

Puvana Lee

Abigail LIU

David

Kerryn

Lechuan

Nur Ilyas

Viriyadhika Putra

Green

Yongjun

Dong

Haohao

Yongchuan

Donghang

Omer

Wei

Roy Choo

Wen Jun Seow

Quan Nguyen

Raymond Xing

Shuk Liu

Shijun Bian

Yiran

Judging Criteria

Completeness (20%)
successfully executing the project concept, implementing the main features/functionality, and creating a usable and well-designed product with a smooth experience.
Creativity / Innovation (20%)
unique, different, or novel compared to other similar solutions. Does it have the potential to disrupt an industry or create a new market.
Technical Accomplishment (30%)
leveraging the main features of the technology stack or platform and having adequate code quality, security, and scalability.
Product value/Functionality (30%)
a solution that effectively addresses the recognized problem and has the potential for impact and usefulness.

TikTok Hackathon Challenge 2023

Unleash creativity and break boundaries

Who can participate