Show HN: Railway hackathon – deploy an idea over a weekend

2 sarahmk125 0 7/29/2025, 2:02:34 PM railway.com ↗

At Railway (I work there), we're putting on a hackathon starting August 6th.

Build a template for others, whether it be for full-stack apps or a headless CMS.

We've seen people deploy traditional apps or infra to host marketing blog sites (we host ours on Railway).

Upto $1000 in prizes for project complexity or content depth.

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Show HN: Railway hackathon – deploy an idea over a weekend

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