If you are trying to build out your portfolio , find a co-founder , or just score some free pizza, hackathons are still the best place to do it in 2026. But actually finding the right hackathon—especially if you want to attend in person—is notoriously annoying. The landscape is fragmented across a dozen different platforms, university boards, and dead Discord servers. After years of competing, here is my definitive stack for finding the best global hackathons this year. 1. Devpost (The Behemoth) You can’t talk about hackathons without mentioning Devpost. It is the industry standard and hosts the vast majority of official corporate and university events. The Good: If a massive company is throwing a hackathon with a $50k prize pool, it will be here. The Bad: The UI is an endless, scrolling text list. It is incredibly frustrating if you are trying to find an in-person event in a specific city or region, as their geographic filtering is still stuck in 2015. 2.…