How It Works
Your step-by-step guide to the ultimate hackathon experience
Your step-by-step guide to the ultimate hackathon experience
Form your dragon rental company with a diverse team of 4-5 members. You'll need at least one frontend or full-stack developer and one backend or full-stack developer. Round out your team with designers, managers, finance experts, and logistics coordinators. Teams can participate in-person, hybrid, or fully remote—we support all formats.
Each team receives everything needed to start their dragon rental business: licenses, permits, infrastructure, startup capital, server access, proprietary tools for order processing, starter code, and a comprehensive handbook with all the information you need to succeed. You'll need to manage inventory attributes, track resource levels, optimize operational costs, and analyze customer demographics to maximize profits and build a sustainable business.
Race against the clock to build a fully functional dragon rental company. Create your backend server and frontend website to handle rental orders using our comprehensive API. You'll need to process customer orders, match inventory to customer preferences, manage multiple product types with different characteristics and seasonal availability, track resource levels, and maintain daily operational readiness. The world wants service starting day one—customers are already demanding! You'll need to move fast and make strategic decisions about inventory, pricing, and resource allocation.
Monitor your real-time rankings, financial performance, and operational metrics through our live game dashboard. Watch as your competitors gain customers and make strategic decisions to outpace them. Track market news, analyze customer demographics, optimize your marketing campaigns, and manage your inventory strategically. Throughout the 8-hour event, you'll face critical decisions: Can you maintain quality while managing costs? Will your resources hold out during peak demand? Should you invest in premium inventory or focus on high-demand products? Every choice impacts your bottom line and competitive position.
As the game progresses, teams must balance building their platform, managing customer demands, handling complex logistics (inventory management, procurement, resource tracking), making critical financial decisions, optimizing operational efficiency, and responding to real-time challenges. Manage product attributes, match customer preferences, handle seasonal variations, process orders, and optimize your operations. The most agile and innovative teams will thrive. At the end of the day, see where you rank and celebrate your team's achievements. Every team walks away with enhanced skills and stronger collaboration.
Track your company's performance, see competitor rankings, monitor your financial metrics, operational status, and stay updated with the latest market news—all in real-time. Make data-driven decisions with live market intelligence.
From day one, customers are demanding service with specific preferences. Your team must quickly process orders, match inventory to customer needs, and build a functional platform to start taking orders and generating revenue. Unfilled orders impact your bottom line!
Manage multiple product types with different characteristics, seasonal availability, resource management systems, infrastructure costs, customer demographics, marketing campaigns, and daily operational readiness. Every decision matters—from inventory procurement to operational optimization.
Experience an entire business year compressed into 8 hours, from startup to scaling, with all the challenges and opportunities that come with running a business. Watch customer demand grow from a few customers to hundreds by year's end, testing your team's ability to scale operations effectively.