Winners are announced.
1. Do I need to pay any money to register for the Hackathon? No, you do not have to pay to register yourself for the Hackathon.
2. Do I need to have any specific qualifications to be a participant for the Hackathon? Yes, please refer to the eligibility criteria mentioned in the 'Overview' section.
3. 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 in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.
4. Do we need to have the entire idea fully working? No, the entire idea need not be fully implemented. However, the submission should be functional so that it can be reviewed by the judges.
5. How is the environment? Will your environment support any language? Will you provide any IDE and DB to work on ideas? You have to develop the entire software application on your local system and submit it on HackerEarth in tar/zip file format along with instructions to run the application and source code.
6. Do I need to be online and available for the entire duration of the Hackathon? No, you don’t have 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.
7. Since there is no specific technology mentioned, are there any restrictions on using a number of pre-built libraries? There is no restriction to use any language, technology stack, or libraries. You can use any of them to create the application.
8. Do I need to give a demo for the product that I have built? If you want you can submit a small presentation or video that explains your submission. However, this is not mandatory, and only good to have. In case you are shortlisted, you will be invited to show a demo of your application at a virtual event, details of which will be shared with sufficient advance notice.
9. A fully developed application needs to have a solid backend for data storage like SQL, SharePoint etc. since its online, is it accepted to show only the prototype of it? Yes, it's absolutely fine to submit just the prototype. If you use any database like MySQL or PostgresSQL you can also submit a database dump along with your submission. However, you are allowed to submit just the prototype.
10. If it is a team submission, will team members have access to work at the same time? Yes, all team members can login from their account and do application submission on HackerEarth.
11. Who will own the IP(Intellectual Property) rights to the product that I have built? The intellectual property of the participant's code belongs to SAP SE.