Saucecode Hackathon 2020
A celebration of our shared courage to face the new normal continuing to innovate via remote collaborations in the middle of a decade-defining pandemic.
Saucecode Hackathon 2020
A celebration of our shared courage to face the new normal continuing to innovate via remote collaborations in the middle of a decade-defining pandemic.
The Hackathon
Saucecode hackathon is an annual event where some of the brightest software designers and developers battle to make their teams our Saucecode champion. The hackathon comprises of different stages with teams of no more than 4 developers battle across different elimination stages. The members of the public vote and our finalist emerges. These finalists would then take turns to pitch in front of our judges. The team with the highest score would then be crowned as the winner of the Saucecode hackathon 2020.
What you get when you join Saucecode Hackathon 2020
Cash Prize
Macbook pro for every member of the winning team
Dev. Resources
Hosting credits from Simplifyd.
Placement Opportunities
Considering a switch? The finalists would also be given priority matching within the Findworka Pro pool.
It’s simple - form a team, pick a problem statement and start building.
Form A Team
Competition Timeline
500 teams (minimum of 3 and maximum of 4 in a team) All team should include a male and a female.
Teams will submit a prototype related to their chosen problem statement before the 30th of October.
Teams that successfully submitted would get a voting link to share, and the top 50 teams with the highest votes would move to the next stage.
15th of October - 1st of November 2020
Findworka would review their progress and work based on various criteria and determine the top 20 teams.
Top teams will have a one hours call session with a mentor to help shape and advice on their product. After which Judges will also do a first round review.
The finalists pitch at a live event for the grand prize in front of our judges. The winning team will be crowned the new Saucecode champion.
2020 Nigerian Judges
Maya Horgan Famodu
Founder & Partner, Ingressive
Edition: 2024
Tomi Amao
CEO, Eyowo
Edition: 2024
Oluwatobi Otokiti
Product Mentor, Google
Edition: 2024
Adesegun Alex Adeyemo
Engineering Manage, Interswitch Group
Edition: 2024
Aniedi Udo-Obong
Program Manager, Google
Edition: 2024
Here's what our past judges have to say about this event
"I was a judge during the maiden edition and I was impressed with the brilliant approach of those teams to the challenges. What a hackathon like this does for developers is give them the opportunity to showcase their technical skills and ability to quickly build MVPs"
Oluseun Onigbinde
Co-founder and CEO (BudgIT)
Partners & Organizers
You think you got the sauce?
Saucecode is a project aimed at discovering and celebrating the finest tech talents in Africa. it was conceived to challenge the talents in our ecosystem, encourage programming best practise, promote collaboration, make new role models