Codepocalypse is a chaotic weekend where you throw sanity out the window and just build.
Cursed prototypes, broken logic, internet-core chaos — this is where it belongs.
The only question:
👉 What would you ship if the internet was ending tomorrow?
This isn’t about neat decks or safe stacks.
It’s a love letter to bizarre ambition, cursed creativity, and the joy of building something so wrong it might just be right.
this hackathon is a love letter to the bizarre, the ambitious, and the half-baked.
no neat slides. no neat stacks. just mayhem and maybe magic.
⚙️ WHO CAN JOIN?- anyone. anywhere. no age/gender/location filters
- teams of up to 4 or solo
- beginners, no-coders, designers, tinkerers — all welcome
- no prep, no pressure — just show up and build.
- ₹5000 total cash pool
- plus non-cash perks:
- LORs from elite judges
- feature on our wall of fame
- internship referrals
- shoutouts on Maximally socials
- “Most Cursed Build”
- “Shouldn’t Have Worked But Did”
- “Built While Sleep-Deprived”
- “Best Bug That Became a Feature”
- promotion on Instagram, Devpost, Discord, and community drops
- main site: maximally.in
- this is part of the Grand Indian Hackathon Season (10 events from Sept–Nov)
This hackathon is part of the Grand Indian Hackathon Season (GIHS) — a three-month sprint featuring 10 unique hackathons.
All prizes feed into an ever-expanding season-wide prize pool, currently at ₹17,00,000+. Each hackathon has its own winners and shoutouts, but the bigger rewards are revealed at the Grand Indian Hackathon Ceremony in November, where the best projects from across all events are celebrated together.
Because the prize pool grows as we bring in more partners, sponsors, and communities, we encourage participants to join the Discord server for the latest updates on prizes, collabs, and surprise drops throughout the season.
Requirements
Your submission must include:
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Project Link
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Code repo (GitHub, GitLab, etc.)
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OR no-code/hosted link (Bubble, Webflow, Figma, etc.)
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README (short + messy is fine)
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What does it do?
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How did you build it?
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Why is it cursed/awesome?
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Optional Demo Video (60s max)
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Doesn’t need to be polished — a shaky screen recording is fine.
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Show us the chaos in action.
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Team Details
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Solo or team (up to 4).
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List contributors in submission.
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Bonus (Totally Optional)
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Screenshots, chaos diary, memes, or bug logs that tell your story.
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The funnier the better.
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Prizes
Doomscroll Favorite
₹8200 worth of tech credits.
For the project that people couldn’t stop looking at — horrifying, fascinating, or both. Winners get a Maximally certificate, social shoutouts, and optional LOR.
Fallout Recognition
₹8200 worth of tech credits.
Some projects feel like fragments from a broken system. This award is for submissions that weren’t finished but still left a lasting impact. Winners receive a certificate, Maximally platform spotlight, and optional LOR.
Survivalist Spirit Award
₹8200 worth of tech credits.
For the team that adapted to every crash, bug, and breakdown, proving grit through chaos. Winners earn a certificate, Maximally-wide features, and an optional LOR.
Meme of the Apocalypse
₹8200 worth of tech credits.
The funniest, most meme-worthy build of the weekend. Winners get a certificate, Maximally shoutouts, and optional LOR.
The Last Commit
₹8200 worth of tech credits.
This recognition is for the most absurd or dramatic last submission — the kind of final push that feels like the end of the world. Winners receive a certificate, Maximally spotlight, and an optional LOR.
Apocalypse MVP
For the project you’d actually want by your side when the world collapses. It could be absurd, brilliant, or held together by duct tape — but it *works when nothing else does.*
Perks: ₹3,000 cash,₹1,02,000 worth of tech credits. an official Maximally certificate, platform shoutouts, and a personalized LOR on request.
Cursed Genius Award
For the unhinged, the sleep-deprived, and the glorious chaos-bringers who turned bugs into features and disasters into art. This one’s for the hackers who kept building while the internet burned.
Perks: ₹2,000 cash,₹64000 worth of tech credits, Maximally certificate, social spotlight, and an optional LOR.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Rishul Chanana
Bohdan Churik
Software Engineer at VoiceLove
Ruslan Ibrahimov
Senior Software Engineer at VoiceLove
Venkataram Poosapati
Senior Data Engineer, Atlassian
Prateek Batla
Product Manager at Meta
Senthilkumaran Rajagopalan
Tech Lead Manager, Video Recommendations, Meta
Ashwini Joshi
Senior Machine Learning engineer @Warner Bros. Discovery
Sahil Deshpande
Software Engineer @ Meta
Tanmay Kejriwal
Founder @ MakeX
Raja Sekhar Rao Dheekonda
Distinguished Engineer @Dreadnode
Rakesh Pullayikodi
Staff Software Engineer @ Graphite Health
Shreesh Agarwal
Sr Business Analyst, McKinsey and Company
Nikita Klimov
Sr. Software QA Engineer contractor at ADP, Inc.
Vikranth Kumar Shivaa
Founding Engineer @ Fig
Vishal Padh
Sr. Software Architect
Sergey Polyashov
Principal Software Engineering Manager @ Microsoft
Jay rungta
Engineering Manager @ Google
Ashish Singh
Sr. IT Architect @ Global Payments
Sai Charan Reddy Nevuri
Software Engineer @ AWS
Abhishek Shrivastava
Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Yogiraj Awati
Engineering Manager@Instacart
Krishna Arjun Saravanan
Senior Software Engineer @ Bloomberg
Abhinay Kumar Reddy Seella
Sr Software Engineer @ Roku
Jay Bharat Mehta
Senior Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Alexandr Dergunov
Software Engineer @Meta
Anastasia Glavatchi
Head of Marketing
Aleksandr Ruban
Marketing Expert in the Game Industry
Assiya Jaisheva
Design Lead
Aleksandr Karavanin
Production Engineer at Meta
Oleg Skliarenko
Co-founder, Chief Product Officer at DRCT
Dmitry Bobolev
Founder of Froxy Labs
Sumit Saha
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Puneet Ramaul
Senior Sales Director @HCLTech
Akash Jindal
Product Owner @Llyods Banking Group
Karthikeyan Sundaram
Backend Software Engineer @WithU
Anil Kumar
Software Engineer @Paua
Arvind K Gautam
ASEAN Lead @Avaya
Konstantin Berezin
Back End Developer @Rapyd
Alexander Rumyantsev
Software Engineer
Judging Criteria
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Originality
Does it stand out from the crowd? Is the concept so unique to blow our minds out? -
Execution
How well is it built and presented? From your ideation to final submission, what have you been able to execute? -
Technical Complexity(or no-code creativity)
Did you push boundaries or innovate with what you had? Did you push no-code to its limits for your idea to come to life? -
gut reaction (is this insane and awesome?)
Is it just insane and awesome? Gut-wrenching or eye-watering?
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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