Showcase your coding skills by participating in Make-A-SAAS Hackathon by Wix. The last date and time to apply is Apr 17, 2023, at 5:00 pm EDT.
About Make-A-SAAS Hackathon
Launching your website in today’s competitive market requires a platform that considers many factors, including scalability, reliability, performance, and security. The total number of issues only increases when you start a complex web application.
Why Velo Wix?
Wix’s Velo is a comprehensive platform that alleviates these issues and enables developers to build web applications from idea to product.
Our platform allows you to:
- Build custom user experiences through a professional UI builder
- Write Javascript on a serverless platform (frontend and backend)
- Use integrated or external databases
- Leverage third-party libraries via npm modules, and Velo packages
- Out-of-the-box debugging and monitoring solutions
- Collaborate seamlessly with your team using GitHub (Early access!)
Purpose and Objectives
We invite you to use your creativity to launch an imaginary (or real) SaaS product using Velo. Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings are remotely hosted applications for multiple users. SaaS products tend to follow a usage-based subscription or monetization model.
Your product should:
- Meet the needs of your target audience
- Consider user experience
- Enter a market you are passionate about
How to Start?
Brainstorm – What problem are you trying to solve?
- The best way to create a great product is to meet a real need. Use your personal and professional experiences to come up with an idea.
- Your ideas don’t have to be original! You can take inspiration from other services and create your own improved versions.
Some examples built with Velo
- Need: Creators need a place to easily share their content across platforms
Solution: Hopp.co - Need: An efficient way to transcribe video content for web accessibility purposes
Solution: deepscriptai
Focus Areas
- Education
- Productivity
- Entertainment
- Accessibility
- Marketing
- Community Building
- Or anything else that interests you!
Find a Team (2-4) or Become a Solo Founder and join our discord community!
- The best way to learn is to work together! Regardless of whether you choose to work alone or in a team, we recommend you join our Discord Server.
- We will be hosting various sessions, workshops, and challenges to help you grow your technical skills for this challenge.
- You can also use it as an opportunity to network with our existing 1,500+ member developer community!
Start developing
- You are now ready to ship the code.
- The Velo platform is available across our visual editors Wix and EditorX
Working solo?
- Get Started with Velo by Creating a Site on Wix and Enabling Dev Mode
- Get Started with Velo by Creating a Site on EditorX and Enabling Dev Mode
Working with a team?
- Get Started with Velo by Creating a Site on EditorX and Enabling Dev Mode
- Sign Up for the GitHub Integration Beta.
Requirements
Launch a SaaS product using Velo’s full-stack development platform.
Project requirements
- Your submission must be a SaaS product
- Your business and application logic must be primarily developed and hosted on the Velo Platform (External APIs and integrations are allowed and encouraged!)
- Your project must utilize a minimum of 2 native Velo APIs. You must use Velo API/SPI when there is pre-existing Velo functionality for the service you wish to add.
Example
- Storing data – Wix-Data or External Database Connection SPI
- User accounts – Wix-Members
- Backend (moderate use) – Velo Web Modules
What to Submit?
- Provide a URL to your working and published app
- Provide a video (5-10 minutes) which includes:
- An explanation of how your service works for your customer
- An overview of your services architecture (Which APIs/SPIs/services did you use?)
- A detailed explanation of how you integrated APIs and services within Velo to help you create your MVP
- Provide a URL to your private or public GitHub repository. For private repositories please grant collaborator access to anthony-wix, tjimenezwix, and DevOps testing.
PRIZES
$27,788 in prizes
First Place
- $5000 USD
- 1-hour feedback session with the Wix team
- Social promotion of project and team*
- 1-year Business Unlimited Premium Plan per team member (retail value: $384)
Second Place
- $2500 USD
- 1-hour feedback session with the Wix team
- Social promotion of project and team*
- 1-year Business Unlimited Premium Plan per team member (retail value: $384)
Third Place
- $1000 USD
- 1-hour feedback session with the Wix team
- Social promotion of project and team*
- 1-year Business Unlimited Premium Plan per team member (retail value: $384)
Honorable Mention (3)
- $500 USD
- Social promotion of project and team*
- 1-year Business Unlimited Premium Plan (retail value: $384)
Criteria Prizes: Best use of Velo Features
- $1,000 USD
- Social promotion of project and team
- 1-year Business Unlimited Premium Plan (retail value: $384)
Criteria Prizes: Best UX/UI
- $1,000 USD
- Social promotion of project and team
- 1-year Business Unlimited Premium Plan (retail value: $384)
Bonus Participation Prizes: Most Valuable Feedback (5)
- $100 USD
- Only feedback submissions are eligible for this prize and will be judged based on completeness, viability, and potential impact.
Bonus Participation Prizes: Community MVP (15)
- $200 USD
Only community contributors that are also part of an eligible submission are eligible and will be chosen throughout the hackathon based on activity, content creation, support and feedback.
Judges
A qualified panel of judges
How to Apply?
Interested Candidates can apply directly through this link.
