Sloptic for hackathon organizers
Judging by hand means holding a hundred different projects in your head. Sloptic takes one part of that off you: it grades the web app entries the same way and puts them on one scale, so whether an app holds up becomes a number instead of a hunch.
What you get
One fair scale
Every web app entry graded the same way, whatever it was built with, so you can compare them on something other than which demo went smoothest.
A ranked board
The gradeable entries sorted by score, with a breakdown by area and a short report for each team.
Honest results
Each grade shows how much of the app could be tested, so a clean score means clean, not skipped.
What it cannot judge
Sloptic grades the floor: the things that are wrong in any app, whatever it was built to do. Everything that depends on what a team was trying to build sits outside it, because a machine has no way to know what the right answer was supposed to be.
Still yours to judge
- Whether the idea is original, useful, or any good
- Whether a feature does what the team says it does
- How hard the thing was to build
the one that bites when ranking
Simpler apps have less to get wrong. A static page barely exposes anything, so it can score better than an ambitious app that actually shipped features. The ranking breaks ties in favor of the app that had more to defend and defended it, but a simpler project with a genuinely lower score still finishes ahead.
So use it for the part it can measure: one line in your rubric, not the verdict. A board sorted on slop alone would crown whoever built the least.
Give it a prize of its own
Sloptic needs a running web app to look at. A hardware build, a trained model, a notebook, or a mobile app gives it nothing to grade. If your event only accepts web apps, that is your whole field and you can rank it outright. If it accepts anything else, which most do, Sloptic fits better as a category prize than as the overall ranking.
suggested category
Slopless Builder
To the web app entry with the lowest slop score. The criterion is published in advance, applies identically to everyone competing for it, and needs no judge in the room at midnight.
A web app is the cheapest thing at a hackathon to generate and the easiest to make look finished, which is what makes the one that also holds up worth naming. A category prize also claims only what Sloptic measures, so nobody has to accept that the cleanest build was the best project, and your main prizes stay with human judges.
How it works
- 01
Point Sloptic at your public Devpost event and prove you run it, which ties the event to your account so nobody else can grade it.
- 02
Pick how deep to go. A light grade needs nothing from teams. A full grade adds the deeper checks and asks each team to add a small verification file when they submit.
- 03
Sloptic confirms each app belongs to your event, skips the entries with nothing deployed to look at, and grades the rest.
Fair by construction
An event runs at one setting, so no entry is judged more gently than another. The deeper checks only ever run on apps whose team has verified them, and any team can opt out.