Put builders in a room. Grow your community.
One place to run hackathons, accelerators, and sprints. Keep the builders, projects, and momentum long after the event ends.
Nothing engages like a builder event.
The most fun way to build community, learn new skills, team up with others, and solve real problems hands-on with new tools.
The leading companies already run builder events. Everyone else is next.
Reach the builders who become your market.
- Get closer to your users and what they actually build
- Build a community that keeps showing up
- Run GTM into new markets and regions
- Amplify a product launch with real builds on day one
Move your own org faster, together.
- Upskill teams on new tools and AI, hands-on
- Ship working prototypes in days, not quarters
- Build culture and break silos across teams
- Surface internal talent and ideas worth backing
BuilderBase removes every reason not to run events.
“We don’t have the time and bandwidth.”
One person can run a single hackathon. ~70% less admin, ops handled.
“We don’t have the budget.”
We help you run events for a fraction of the budget, with world-class results.
“We don’t know where to start.”
Book a strategy call and we’ll map out how to get the best value for you.
“Is it worth it? What’s the ROI?”
Every event ends with an ROI report — and becomes a channel for hiring, distribution, and product feedback.
“We don’t know how — we’re not an event company.”
Plug into templates & playbooks from 550+ events. BuilderBase is your event team.
“We do not have the sponsors, participants, or a venue.”
Tap an active network of builders and sponsors — run it online, hybrid, or in person.
From 2-hour workshops to year-round programs.
BuilderBase runs every format, and chains them end to end.
Team skills workshop
An internal session. Set it up once, run it every month.
Campus hackathon
Sign-ups, teams, and judging for a weekend build at one university.
Accelerator cohort
Weekly milestones, mentor check-ins, and a demo day at the end.
Team skills workshop
An internal session. Set it up once, run it every month.
Campus hackathon
Sign-ups, teams, and judging for a weekend build at one university.
Accelerator cohort
Weekly milestones, mentor check-ins, and a demo day at the end.
Hacker house
Builders live and ship together in one space for a month.
Multi-city hackathon
The same event in 50 cities at once, ranked on one leaderboard.
Company build program
Every business unit ships a working prototype, tracked week by week.
Hackathon series
10 events across 6 countries over 3 months, ranked on one shared leaderboard.
Hacker house
Builders live and ship together in one space for a month.
Multi-city hackathon
The same event in 50 cities at once, ranked on one leaderboard.
Company build program
Every business unit ships a working prototype, tracked week by week.
Hackathon series
10 events across 6 countries over 3 months, ranked on one shared leaderboard.
Built for every organizer.
From tech communities to global investors, the same platform works for all of them.
Run builds as a GTM and distribution channel — get your product into builders' hands, drive adoption on your own stack, source candidates to hire, and capture real product feedback.
Run hackathons and build nights free — handle member sign-ups, form teams, collect project submissions, and judge entries.
Mobilize volunteers and run mission-driven builds and civic hackathons at zero cost.
Source and screen founders by what they actually ship, then track cohorts through demo day.
Source proprietary deal flow and serve your portfolio — discover founders by what they actually ship, and run hands-on builder events as a portfolio service.
Upskill teams and run internal innovation sprints with SSO, admin controls, and support.
From sign-up to ROI report, in one place.
Run applications, judging, sponsors, and reporting without stitching tools together.
AI application screening
Define your ICP. The strongest applicants surface automatically.
Team formation
Smart matching by skills and role. Balanced teams, faster.
Sponsor onboarding
Credits, prizes, and deliverables set before day one.
Real-time ops dashboard
Registrations, teams, and submissions live across every track.
Judging & scoring
Rubrics, blind scoring, instant tiebreakers. Results in minutes.
Check-in & live comms
Check builders in and push updates to every team in real time.
Sponsor ROI report
A structured report after every event, ready to share.
Builder & project graph
Profiles, projects, and outcomes, captured and searchable.
Repeat program tools
Reuse your applicant pool and carry sponsors into the next event.
Everything in one platform.
Five tools in one: registration, applications, community, comms, judging.
All five, in one platform.Prefer to keep a tool you already use? Plug it in.
BuilderBase runs the whole event end to end, but it connects to the tools your team already works in.
Sync registrations and event pages both ways.
Connect your community server for roles, channels, and comms.
Pull repos and track submissions where builders actually ship.
Push event data to your CRM, BI, or internal tools over REST.
Real-time alerts to your team for registrations and submissions.
Automated participant and team notifications via WhatsApp.
What our customers say.
A core part of our developer growth strategy.
“BuilderBase gives us high-quality distribution into technical communities worldwide, with measurable ROI data.”
Megan, Head of Developer Community at ReplitNothing surfaces outlier founders faster.
“Putting talent in a room and seeing what gets built. BuilderBase makes it possible to run these events at speed, at scale, and at the highest level.”
Petter Made, Partner at EWOR and Co-founder of SumUp
Things get built in a few hours.
“A hackathon brings an additional dimension. It’s fast and intense. BuilderBase added real value and enabled high-quality management and execution.”
Omid Ekhlasi, CEO of TechArenaBoth sides of the marketplace, in one network.
Organizers on one side, sponsors on the other. BuilderBase connects them, so each finds the other in one place.
One flat price per event.
Pay once per event — cheaper than an agency, and a fraction of the staff time.
Free
The full platform, self-serve and free.
- Up to 50 participants
- 1 day · 1 track
- Self-serve platform, end to end
- Judging & prize tools
- Sponsor marketplace access
Starter
Unlimited builders, multiple tracks and seats.
- Unlimited participants
- 1 day · up to 3 tracks
- Everything in Free
- Multi-organizer seats
- CSV data export
- Sponsor marketplace access
Scale
Multi-day events, priority support and analytics.
- Unlimited participants
- Up to 5 days · unlimited tracks
- Everything in Starter
- Priority support & planning call
- Advanced analytics dashboards
- Priority sponsor marketplace matching
Free for students & nonprofits. Apply here.
Enterprise
CustomCo-managed, with a dedicated team and SSO. Priced per event or as an annual partnership.
- Tailored capacity & duration
- Multi-event packages
- Everything in Scale
- Dedicated PM & ops team
- SSO, audit logs & MSA + DPA
- Dedicated sponsor marketplace concierge
Optional add-ons
Layer either onto any plan above.
Marketing boost
We help you fill the event: finding the right participants and bringing in sponsors.
Co-managed event
Our team runs it alongside you, or takes the lead and project-manages the whole event.
Start with one event. Build infrastructure that compounds.
Every event creates data, relationships, and proof you can build on.
FREE FOR EVENTS UP TO 50 PEOPLE · LIVE IN MINUTES
Frequently asked questions
The common ones. The rest live on our full FAQ page.