Software you run, or a community you hire
WeMakeDevs is a 200K-member developer community that runs hackathons for you as a go-to-market service. BuilderBase is the platform your own team runs events on, applications, screening, judging, sponsor reporting, at a published price, in any vertical or region.
The gaps organizers hit with WeMakeDevs
Software with a licence, versus a programme with a scope.
Software, not a services engagement
BuilderBase is a platform your team logs into and runs, event after event. WeMakeDevs is a partnership: they scope, staff, and run the hackathon with their community around it.
Repeatable, not one programme at a time
The second event costs the same as the first and takes a fraction of the setup. Community-led programmes are re-scoped and re-quoted each time you want to run one.
Published price, no scoping call
Free to start, €999 per event, visible before you talk to anyone. WeMakeDevs engagements begin with a meeting and are quoted per programme.
BuilderBase vs WeMakeDevs.
Everything below is checkable. Where a platform only partly covers something, we say so.
| Feature | BuilderBase | WeMakeDevs |
|---|---|---|
| Self-Serve Launch | Included | Not availableservices engagement |
| Run Unlimited Events Yourself | Included | Not availableper programme |
| Branded Event Page | Included | Partialco-branded |
| Application Screening & Team Formation | Included | Includedrun for you |
| Judging & Scoring | Included | Includedrun for you |
| Sponsor ROI Report | Included | Includedpartner report |
| Sponsor Marketplace | Included | Not available |
| Accelerator / Program Mgmt | Included | Not available |
| Owned Developer Audience | Partial | Included200K+ members |
| Open-Source Engagement Programmes | Partial | Includedcore strength |
| In-Person City Hubs | Partial | Included11 cities |
| Published Pricing | Included | Not availablequoted per programme |
| Enterprise (SSO, Audit, GDPR) | Included | Partialcase by case |
included partial not available.Based on publicly available information at the time of writing.
What it actually costs.
WeMakeDevs is genuinely good at the thing software cannot do: they own a 200K-strong developer community across 40 countries and 11 city hubs, and they turn a hackathon into GitHub stars, merged PRs, and API signups for the partner who funds it. If what you need is reach, that is worth paying for, and plenty of teams should. BuilderBase sells the other half: the platform underneath, so the events keep running after the engagement ends.
BuilderBase or WeMakeDevs?
Your team runs its own events, more than once, and wants applications, screening, judging, and sponsor reporting to be the same system every time, at a price you can see up front.
You need an audience more than a platform: one flagship GTM push, run for you, in front of a developer community you do not have to build first.
BuilderBase vs WeMakeDevs: common questions.
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Run your next event on BuilderBase
Free to start. €999 for a flagship event, published up front. Live in days.