What is Bracket Hacks?

We specialise in solving a real-time problems. We are a community which truly believes in sharpen their technical skill through real-time hackathons/challenges and also can earn by completing the tasks. We provide a proper training in order to get prepared for the technology race. We bring a different different challenges on several domains.

• Training: We majorly focus on giving a training for the upcoming/fresher developer.

• Future Ready: We are training fresher for the upcoming technology race.

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About the challenge

Join our community in which we will share experiences on how to solve a real-time challenges of modern IT world.

The idea behind BracketHacks 1.0 is to give an opportunity to young developers who are in their college life for explore new technologies and topics as they build on their skills and with the help of that they can earn while showcasing their skills, it will feature many webinar and training. During these, both technical and intellectual, you’ll be exposed to a plethora of coding world and how to deals with real-time projects. Whether you’ve never written a line of code in your life or have an essay’s worth under your belt, there is something for everyone!

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Join us on discord for any updates: https://discord.gg/WEajxrm5H5

Requirements

What to Build

  •  Audio Chat Bot: Create a audio chat bot with the help of Symbl.ai & Wix/other frameworks/languages, where bot take audio/text as a input then reply in the form of text only.
  • Video Transcription Service: Create a video transcription service with the help of Symbl.ai, where anyone can upload their video (MAX UPLOAD SIZE: 15 MB) & get text as a response, after transcription we must able to copy the text, explort the text as .txt & .json format.
  • Create Discord Bot: Create a Discord Bot with help Discord.js/Discord.py or others, where whenever anyone send audio message in channel add interation button ("Get Into Text") must be add & whenever someone click on interation button ("Get Into Text"), bot get the audio & transcribe it into text & reply the message.

So, to complete this challenges we are allotting you 7 days and we believe that this time frame will be sufficient for you to complete this. We are also sure that, you will get to know lot of new things as well as better learning opportunities.

In case, if you found any help or doubts from our ends. Feel free to reach us directly over discord.

What to Submit

Participate in the BracketHacks 1.0 by submitting your project on the Devpost platform before the deadline. Here's how:

Devpost Submission:
  • Provide a URL to your code repository (repl.it, Netlify, GitHub, or anywhere else) OR a link to a functional prototype for judging and testing. 

  • Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook Video and made public.

 

Wix Submission:
  • Share your project with the Hackathon Judge S Deepak Kumar by inviting the following email on your project: sdeepakkumar@brackethacks.com. In your dashboard, you will have to navigate to “Settings > Roles & Permissions > Invite People to This Site”.
  • Include a video (about 3 minutes) that demonstrates your submission. Videos must be uploaded to YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook Video and made public.

Note: Remember that you are only allowed to submit projects made during BracketHacks 1.0 (and not at other events, multiple submission is grounds for disqualification).

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$31,075 in prizes

First Place By Bracket Hacks

• $130 (INR 10000) cash
• 1-year Unlimited Plan on Wix (value: $30)
• 1-hour session with Bracket Hacks
• Social promotion of project
• Blog post mention
• Newsletter feature
• Winner certificate
• Swags/Goodies by Bracket Hacks

Second Place By Bracket Hacks

• $65 (INR 5000) cash
• 1-year Unlimited Plan on Wix (value: $30)
• 1-hour session with Bracket Hacks
• Social promotion of project
• Blog post mention
• Newsletter feature
• Winner certificate
• Swags/Goodies by Bracket Hacks

Third Place By Bracket Hacks

• $40 (INR 3000) cash
• 1-year Unlimited Plan on Wix (value: $30)
• 1-hour session with Bracket Hacks
• Social promotion of project
• Blog post mention
• Newsletter feature
• Winner certificate
• Swags/Goodies by Bracket Hacks

Forth Place By Bracket Hacks

• $15 (INR 1000) cash
• 1-year Unlimited Plan on Wix (value: $30)
• 1-hour session with Bracket Hacks
• Social promotion of project
• Winner certificate
• Swags/Goodies by Bracket Hacks

Fifth Place By Bracket Hacks

• $15 (INR 1000) cash
• 1-year Unlimited Plan on Wix (value: $30)
• 1-hour session with Bracket Hacks
• Social promotion of project
• Winner certificate
• Swags/Goodies by Bracket Hacks

First Place By Symbl.ai

• $150 USD Amazon Gift card
• Shoutout from the community - Developer Spotlight on those who build with symbl.ai
• Exclusive Developer Swag

Second Place By Symbl.ai

• $100 USD Amazon Gift card
• Shoutout from the community - Developer Spotlight on those who build with symbl.ai
• Exclusive Developer Swag

Third Place By Symbl.ai

• $50 USD Amazon Gift card
• Shoutout from the community - Developer Spotlight on those who build with symbl.ai
• Exclusive Developer Swag

All Valid Submission (200)

• 3000 Minutes/credits on Symbl.ai (value: $150 USD)
• Participation certificate

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

S Deepak Kumar

S Deepak Kumar
Co-founder, Bracket Hacks

Deepak Kumar Sah

Deepak Kumar Sah
M.tech MEE, IIT Mandi

Virat Kumar Singh

Virat Kumar Singh
Co-founder, Bracket Hacks

Noah Lovell

Noah Lovell
Velo Community Leader

Viacheslav Shago

Viacheslav Shago
Senior Software Engineer

Alexander Kozhenkov

Alexander Kozhenkov
Team Lead, GridGain

Danylo Tolmachov

Danylo Tolmachov
Software Engineering Head, Techstack Ltd

Akanksha Bhasin

Akanksha Bhasin
Sr. Technical Community Evangelist, Symbl.ai

Maksim Kuznetsov

Maksim Kuznetsov
Sr. Python Developer, Akvelon

Golubeva Veronika

Golubeva Veronika
Sr. Data Engineer, Datrics

Nikita Vasilev

Nikita Vasilev
Sr. Big Data Developer, Grid Dynamics

Azamat Nurkhojayev

Azamat Nurkhojayev
Software Engineer

Anton Gubarev

Anton Gubarev
Software Engineer

Judging Criteria

  • Originality / Creativity
    Aspects or ideas of the project that are distinguishable from others and which can Provides a "wow" factor that hasn’t been seen in other projects.
  • Presentation
    How appealing/pleasant the format in which the project is being presented looks. Ease of displaying everything included in the project and how straightforward the navigation is.
  • Social Good / Real World Impact
    How innovative the project is. What real-world problem can it, or has the potential to solve. How well does the project attempt to approach social issues.
  • Fits Theme
    How perfect is the project with the theme. What aspects from the theme does the project involve.

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