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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-13

HackHQ Maps the Hackathon World

hacking-hq.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 86.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

An open-source globe and directory for finding hackathons, tracking deadlines, prizes, locations, and application status.

Why it surfaced

HackHQ tracks 92 hackathons across 48 cities, with a stated $4.4 million in prize pools, and turns the listings into a living 3D map. Its data is updated through a GitHub Action and AI extraction pipeline, while anyone can add an event in 60 seconds through a prefilled GitHub issue.

Thirty Patents for the Grave

August 13’s newborn domains include 30 safety-coffin patents, lost notices for false teeth and a box of hair, short films playing in 100 Tokyo taxis, and a Queensland river view arranged gauge by gauge downstream.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-13 Domain Arrivals issue.