Events

Product Hunt x Fastgen Hackathon Winner Announcement

It’s a wrap! We hosted our second Hackathon with Product Hunt from November 27th to December 11th, 2023. The participants had two weeks to build a product with Fastgen and launch it on Product Hunt. Despite the limited time frame, we saw many impressive projects and respective launches. Today, we want to celebrate the winners!

February 6, 2024
Mike Mahlkow
CEO & Co-Founder of Fastgen

Overview

Winners

Participants had the chance to win in 1 of 3 categories: Overall Winner, Best Product Hunt Launch and Best Use of Fastgen. After taking all submissions into account, our jury, consisting of Rajiv Ayyangar (CEO of Product Hunt), Nate Abbott (GP at Mischief), Peer Richelsen (CEO of cal.com), Vlada Labzeyeva (Investor at 468 Capital) and Mike Mahlkow (CEO of Fastgen), decided the following winners:

Overall Winner: Findable

Findable is your new go-to tool for programmatic SEO. It helps you create as many pSEO pages as needed, targeting long-tail keywords at the click of a button. Findable can help you increase organic traffic and improve overall SEO performance. Findable offers pre-built tools, like a pSEO Head Term Generator, an SEO 2.0 Blog Question Generator and an SEO Meta Description Generator, to help you get started with pSEO. Findable was built by Sam van den Nieuwenhof, Ryan Griffin and Ben Hofmeyer.

Prizes: 1-on-1 call with Product Hunt CEO Rajiv Ayyangar, Times Square feature, company swag kits, $1500 in cash

Website: https://www.findable.au/ 

Product Hunt Launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/findable-2 

Best Product Hunt Launch: Xound

Xound is the AI for perfect sound: clear audio & vocal pitch for creators. Xound.io removes background noise and perfects pitch, delivering clear sound that keeps audiences engaged. It makes listening easier and more enjoyable, holding the listener's attention. Xound was built by Philipp Seeser.

Prizes: Product Hunt swag kit, $500 in cash

Website: https://xound.io/ 

Product Hunt Launch: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/xound 

Best Use of Fastgen: Gamercoin

Gamercoin lets you convert your video game playtime into redeemable currency. You simply need to connect your Steam account to Gamercoin and you will start earning the redeemable currency for every hour played. Gamercoin was built by Matthew Sandys, Gabriel Kiss and Alenzeli Ramji.

Prizes: Fastgen swag kit, Three free months of Fastgen Pro Plan, $500 in cash
Website:
https://www.gamercoin.co/
Product Hunt Launch:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/gamercoin 

Closing Remarks

We thank everyone for participating in this exciting Hackathon with Product Hunt and Fastgen. It was a blast to see all the projects being built in such a short amount of time. We also want to thank the speakers who helped make this hackathon even more successful with exciting insights and great tips on building and launching projects with low code and no code tools. If you missed any of the speeches, you can view all of them on the Fastgen YouTube Channel.

Until the next one.

Happy Building!

Mike Mahlkow

CEO & Co-Founder of Fastgen

Mike Mahlkow is the co-founder and CEO of Fastgen, a low-code backend builder. He is a serial tech entrepreneur who has taken two of his companies through Y Combinator and raised money from some of the best investors in the world. Before starting his founder journey, he learned how successful tech companies are run in his roles at Stripe and Uber. His areas of expertise are startups, shipping product fast, and the low-code industry. In addition to his role at Fastgen, he is an angel investor and podcast host. He has been quoted in publications including TechCrunch, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Forbes, and Quartz.