about hackathon sverige

what this is

Hackathon Sverige is a listings directory. It tracks hackathons taking place in Sweden and puts them on one page, sorted by date, with the dates, location, ticket price and prize information attached to each one.

Right now there are 12 upcoming events listed. That number moves every week — the collection run adds what it finds, and an event drops out of the main list into the archive once it has happened. The directory is new, so expect it to be on the thin side for a while; what is here is real.

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. Once a week, on a Sunday, a collection run checks the public event platforms that Swedish hackathon organisers actually use — Luma first of all, then Eventbrite, Meetup and Devpost — and collects anything that looks like a hackathon happening in Sweden. 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:

• Sweden only. Swedish is also spoken in Finland, Nordic-wide listings are common, and Stockholm, Gothenburg and Lund all exist in the United States. An event is only accepted when something other than the city name and the language confirms it is Swedish: a .se link, the Europe/Stockholm timezone, a Swedish university or organisation, a Swedish postcode (three digits, a space, two digits) or Sweden-only eligibility rules.
• Actually a hackathon. Build weekends, game jams, buildathons, datathons and hack days and similar hands-on competitions. Conferences, webinars and meetups that merely mention the word do not qualify — and a kurs is not a konkurs: Swedish compounds are matched on whole words.
• Online events need a Swedish signal. An online listing is only kept if something ties it here — a .se link, the Europe/Stockholm timezone, or Sweden-only eligibility rules.
• 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 Swedish format in the event's own timezone, prices to kronor, the venue and address separated out, the banner image copied onto our own servers rather than hotlinked from the organiser.

why there are no city pages

Almost the whole Swedish calendar sits in Stockholm and its county, so this directory does not split listings across city pages: an event in Kista, Solna or Sundbyberg browses under Stockholm, and each event page carries the exact venue. Göteborg, Malmö, Uppsala, Linköping and Lund keep their own name on the card and get pages of their own once they carry enough events to fill one. The one split that does carry information is in-person against online, and that is a filter on the homepage rather than a separate page.

money

The directory is funded by featured listings: an organiser can show their event as a banner on every page for seven days for a one-time fee. The order of ordinary listings is unaffected — it stays chronological.