about hackathon españa

what this is

Hackathon España is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Spain and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one, and it browses by 8 city hubs.

Right now there are 13 upcoming events listed.

We do not run hackathons. Every listing links out to the organiser's own page, which is where registration, rules, schedules and any questions about the event itself belong. Think of this as an index, not an intermediary.

where the listings come from

Listings are gathered automatically. A weekly pipeline checks the public event platforms that Spanish hackathon organisers actually use — Eventbrite (theeventbrite.es catalogue, not the .com one, which serves a different country), Devpost, Luma and Meetup — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in Spain. Organisers can also add an event directly through the submit form.

Automated collection is the only way to keep a directory of this kind current, but it is also the part most likely to be wrong, so candidates are filtered before they are published:

• Spain only. The hard case is place names that exist in more than one country — Spanish cities were reused all over Latin America, so there is a Valencia in Venezuela, a Guadalajara and a León in Mexico, a Cartagena in Colombia, a Córdoba in Argentina and a Santiago in Chile. An event is only accepted when something other than the city name confirms it is Spanish: a .es link, a Spanish timezone, a Spanish university or organisation, a Spanish postal code, or prize money in euros.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days, code jams and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars, masterclasses and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify, and neither do the “life hack”, “wellness hack” and “biohacking” events that share the keyword.
• Online events need a Spanish signal. For Devpost and Luma an online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a .es link, a Spanish timezone, Spain-only eligibility rules, or weaker hints together such as a Spanish university and prize money in euros. Online listings found through Eventbrite's own Spanish search are kept without that extra check.
• Still upcoming. Past events move to an archive section rather than the main listings.
• Not a duplicate. The same event cross-posted to two platforms is matched on its link or its title and merged into one listing.

how the listings are written

Once an event is accepted, its page is read and the details are pulled out — dates normalised to Spanish format and 24-hour times in the event's own timezone (the mainland runs on CET/CEST and the Canary Islands an hour behind on WET/WEST, so each listing keeps the one its organiser published), prices to euros, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser.

Dates are the one thing the model does not have the final say on: where the organiser's page publishes exact start and end timestamps, those are written over whatever the model produced.

how cities work

The 8 city pages — Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sevilla, Bilbao, Málaga, Zaragoza, Las Palmas — are hackathonecosystems rather than the 8 largest municipalities in the country. Bilbao and Zaragoza are smaller than Murcia or Alicante but run far denser hackathon calendars, so they get their own pages while the towns and provinces around them fold into the closest hub for browsing purposes.

So Getafe, Alcalá de Henares, Móstoles, Toledo, Valladolid and Salamanca browse under Madrid; L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sant Cugat, Terrassa, Girona, Tarragona and Lleida under Barcelona; Paterna, Castellón, Alicante, Elche, Murcia and Cartagena under Valencia; Dos Hermanas, Córdoba, Cádiz, Jerez, Huelva and Jaén under Sevilla; Getxo, Barakaldo, Donostia-San Sebastián, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Pamplona, Logroño, Santander and Oviedo under Bilbao; Marbella, Torremolinos, Granada, Almería, Ceuta and Melilla under Málaga; Huesca and Teruel under Zaragoza; and Santa Cruz de Tenerife, La Laguna, Arrecife and Puerto del Rosario under Las Palmas. An event’s own page always shows its real venue and address — the grouping only affects which city page you find it on, because that reflects how people actually travel to these events.

Grouping stops where travel stops. Galicia — A Coruña, Vigo, Santiago de Compostela, Ourense, Lugo, Pontevedra and Ferrol — is 550 km from Bilbao behind a mountain range, and the Balearic Islands — Palma, Ibiza and Mahón — are across open sea, so all of them keep their own names rather than being filed under a hub nobody could travel from. They appear in the main listings without a city page of their own. Names that belong to more than one place are never guessed either: a bare “Santiago”, “Santa Cruz” or “San Fernando” is only resolved once the value carries a región.

who it's for

Three groups, in roughly that order of size:

• People who want to build something. Developers, designers, data people, students and founders looking for something to enter this weekend — in their own city, or online.
• Organisers. Anyone running a hackathon in Spain who wants it found by those people. Listing is free through the submit form, and the pipeline will often find your event on its own before you get round to submitting it.
• Universities and companies. Engineering schools running a student hackathon, corporate innovation teams programming an internal build weekend, and anyone trying to see what the rest of the Spanish calendar already looks like before picking a date of their own.

Student-run university hackathons, corporate innovation weekends, charity build days and independent game jams are all in scope. The site chrome is in English because that is the working language of most of these events; Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician place names and organisation names are kept as they are written.

how this site makes money, and what that changes

Being listed is free and always will be — the directory would be worthless if it only contained events that paid to be in it. Organisers can optionally pay for a featured listing: a one-off €50, which puts a banner for the event across every page of the site for seven days. That is the whole of what the money buys, and the full terms are on the submit page.

It does not buy an email to our subscribers — this edition captures newsletter signups but has no outbound mail provider attached and has never sent a message, so promising a send would be promising something that cannot happen.

A featured listing buys placement and nothing else. It does not change whether an event is listed, and it does not change the order of the ordinary listings, which are sorted by date. We are not affiliated with Eventbrite, Devpost, Luma or Meetup, we are not paid by them, and outbound links to organiser pages are not affiliate links — we earn nothing when you register for an event.

editorial stance

• Completeness over curation. The aim is every Spanish hackathon, not a shortlist of the ones we like. We do not rate, rank or review events.
• Organisers own their description. Descriptions are the organiser's own words; summaries are condensed from them, as described above. We do not add promotional claims of our own.
• Corrections are free and fast. There is no fee to fix or remove a listing, including a featured one.
• No dark patterns. No cookie wall, no third-party analytics, no advertising trackers. See the privacy policy for exactly what is and is not collected.

the rest of the network

Hackathon España is the Spanish edition of a small network of national hackathon directories built on the same pipeline. The others are Hackathons Australia, Canada Hackathons, UK Hackathons, and Hackathons USA. Each one covers its own country only: the filters, the city hubs and the currency are built for that market, so a Spanish event will never turn up on the UK site and vice versa. They are linked in the footer of every page.

get in touch

Corrections, questions, removal requests and press enquiries all go to the same place — see the contact page. Organisers with an event to add should use the submit form.