Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon? No. You do not have to pay anything to anyone to register yourself for any Hackathon on HackerEarth.
Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon? If you love to code, you are more than welcome to participate in the Hackathon.
How do I submit what I have made for the Hackathon? You have to develop the application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth with a link to a GitHub repo or Pull Request that includes the source code, instructions, and demo video.
Do we need to have the entire idea fully working? The entire idea need not be fully implemented however, the submission should be functional so that it can be reviewed by the judges.
How is the environment? Will your environment support any language? Will you provide any IDE and DB for us to work on ideas? You have to develop the entire software application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth with a link to a GitHub repo or Pull Request with the source code, instructions, and demo video.
Does one have to be online and available for the entire duration of the Hackathon? No, one does not need to be logged in on HackerEarth or be online for the entire duration. You can develop the application on your local system based on the given themes and then submit it on HackerEarth, on the specific challenge page.
Are there any restrictions on technologies or the number of pre-built libraries used? There is no restriction except that the solution has to be in the Python programming language and involve MariaDB.
Do I need to give a demo for the product that I have built? We ask for a 2-4 minute video demo to be included in the development submission. In case you are one of the winners, you might be invited to demo your application at a remote or physical event, details of which will be shared with sufficient advance notice.
My development submission requires data in MariaDB - how do I submit it? If your final submission requires data in MariaDB, you will need to include instructions in your GitHub repo or Pull Request on how the user loads the data into MariaDB, and from where: either a publicly available dataset, or data files included in your repo. We recommend using the OpenFlights dataset we have made available at https://github.com/MariaDB/openflights.
If it is a team submission, does that mean all team members will have access to work at the same time? Yes, all team members can login from their account and do application submission on HackerEarth.
Who will own the IP(Intellectual Property) Rights to the product that I have built? The developer/developers of the web/mobile application will have all rights and own the IP of the product. However, all code needs to be in public domain (open source) so that it can be evaluated by the judges.