13 Projects You Don't Want to Pass Up to Win Cool Hacktoberfest Swag 🎁🎃
Anmol Baranwal
Hacktoberfest is my favorite time of year. It's a time to contribute and earn some goodies.
This is a list of 13 open source projects offering swags on contributions.
You can get all kinds of swag, such as T-shirts, bottles, stickers, Airpods Pro 2, laptops, hoodies, and even backpacks.
Let's earn some swags!
1. CopilotKit - 10x easier to build AI Copilots.
You will agree that it's tough to add AI features in React, that's where Copilot helps you as a framework for building custom AI Copilots.
You can build in-app AI chatbots, and in-app AI Agents with simple components provided by Copilotkit which is at least 10x easier compared to building it from scratch.
🎁 CopilotKit Hacktoberfest event.
You can participate by creating innovative demos for CopilotKit. It will be ranked from 0 to 100 based on different factors.
There are extra ways to earn bonus points like writing a tutorial on devto, sharing it on Twitter or even creating a YouTube video of your project on YouTube.
You need to reach basic reaction/view counts. Read more on official page.
Copilotkit has 11.1k stars on GitHub and the primary language used is TypeScript.
2. Formbricks - Open Source Survey Platform.
With Formbricks, you can gather feedback at every point in the user journey with beautiful in-app, website, link and email surveys.
🎁 Formbricks Hacktoberfest event.
You can earn a chance to get a Macbook, Airpods, Epomaker and more by getting points. It's a part of the oss.gg hackathon.
Read more on official page.
There are a lot of side quests and challenges so you can check it out.
Formbricks has 6.7k stars on GitHub and was built using TypeScript.
3. Appwrite - Your backend minus the hassle.
Appwrite's open source platform lets you add Auth, DBs, Functions, and Storage to your product & build any application at any scale, own your data and use your preferred coding languages and tools.
🎁 Appwrite Hacktoberfest event.
They are conducting a Hacktoberfest 2024 Hackathon where you can get exclusive Appwrite swags.
The top team will each walk away with The Appwriter, an exclusive award for the best overall project.
2nd and 3rd-place teams will receive the Appwrite swag kit.
Read more on official page.
Appwrite has 44k+ stars on GitHub and is built using TypeScript.
4. Ballerina - programming language.
Ballerina is an open source cloud-native programming language optimized for integration. It is developed and supported by WSO2.
🎁 Ballerina Hacktoberfest event.
Contributors who make the most contributions will be rewarded.
They are allowing non-code contributions as well, so that's a good thing.
You can earn a t-shirt, Bottle, Hoodie, Cap, Mug and even Backpack.
Read more on official page.
They have 3.6k stars on GitHub and built on their own Ballerina programming language.
5. Hyperswitch - payment infrastructure.
Hyperswitch is an open source payment switch written in Rust to make payments fast, reliable and affordable.
🎁 Hyperswitch Hacktoberfest event.
You can do code and no-code contributions like blogs.
You can get a T-shirt and hoodie as swags.
Read more on official page.
There are issues already available that you can pick.
Hyperswitch has 12.2k stars on GitHub and is built using Rust, JavaScript.
6. MindsDB - build AI from enterprise data.
With MindsDB, you can deploy, serve, and fine-tune models in real-time, utilizing data from databases, vector stores or applications, to build AI-powered apps - using universal tools developers already know.
🎁 MindsDB Hacktoberfest event.
You can get a chance to earn one of three awesome RazerTM laptops and get cool swags.
For every 100 credits earned, you will receive one entry into the drawing to win one of three high-end Razer™ Blade laptops.
You will have to contribute issues labeled hacktoberfest and help-wanted. You need to submit the form with the links to your PRs and your contact details (deadline is 31st Oct).
Read more on official page.
MindsDB has 26.5k stars on GitHub and is built using Python.
7. Taipy - Data and AI algorithms into production level web apps.
Taipy is the perfect Python library for easy, end-to-end application development, featuring what-if analyses, smart pipeline execution, built-in scheduling and deployment tools.
🎁 Taipy Hacktoberfest event.
They have three categories of difficulties of PRs and you earn swags after merging the PR corresponding to that difficulty.
You can get swags such as stickers, Bottle, Scott Hoodie, Mousepad, Jack & Jones Hoodie and even a Backpack.
Read more on official page.
Taipy has 12.8k stars on GitHub and is built using Python.
8. Tolgee - friendly web-based localization platform.
Tolgee is an open source localization platform that makes it easy for developers to create multilingual apps. They provide native SDKs and support a lot of formats.
🎁 Tolgee Hacktoberfest event.
Read more on official page.
Tolgee has 1.6k stars on GitHub and is built using TypeScript.
9. Flyte - Build as well as deploy data and ML pipelines.
Flyte is an orchestrator that facilitates building production-grade data and ML pipelines. It is built for scalability and reproducibility, leveraging Kubernetes as its underlying platform.
🎁 Flyte Hacktoberfest event.
Every contribution registered in the form will receive a prize, the more contributions you make and the more significant the contribution, the greater the prize.
You can earn swags like t-shirt, bottle, sweatshirts, stickers and even Airpods Pro 2.
Read more on official page.
Check out the Hacktoberfest welcome video to start your contribution.
Flyte has 5.6k stars on GitHub.
10. Instill AI - make your data AI-ready.
Instill Core is a full-stack AI infrastructure tool for data, model and pipeline orchestration, designed to streamline every aspect of building versatile AI-first apps.
🎁 Instill AI Hacktoberfest event.
With your contributions, you can earn Instill Physical Stickers and an Instill Bottle or Mug.
Participants who rank in the top five based on points will receive a $50 Amazon Gift Card.
Read more on official page.
They have 2.1k stars on GitHub and are built using Makefile.
11. Crawlee - web scraping and browser automation library for Python.
Crawlee covers your crawling and scraping end-to-end and helps you build reliable scrapers. It works with BeautifulSoup, Playwright and raw HTTP.
You can even extract data for AI, LLMs, RAG or GPTs. You can even download HTML, PDF, JPG, PNG and other files from websites.
🎁 Crawlee Hacktoberfest event.
You can earn a Crawlee Exclusive Sticker Sheet with 1-2 Accepted Pull Requests.
You will get a Crawlee Exclusive Hoodie if you make 2 or more Accepted Pull Requests.
Read more on official page.
Crawlee has 4.1k stars on GitHub and is built using Python.
12. Wren AI - SQL AI Agent for data teams.
Wren AI is a SQL AI Agent for data teams to get results and insights faster by asking business questions without writing SQL.
🎁 Wren AI Hacktoberfest event.
You can get T-shirt and hat as swags. You will also get recognition as they will celebrate all the contributions made by the community on November 12 on their official Discord server.
Read more on official page.
They have 1.8k stars on GitHub and are built using TypeScript.
13. Langfuse - LLM Engineering Platform.
It's an LLM engineering platform with LLM Observability, metrics, evals, prompt management, playground and datasets. Integrates with LlamaIndex, Langchain, OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM and more.
You can watch the demo if you want to learn more.
🎁 Langfuse Hacktoberfest event.
Contributors with 2 or more accepted PRs will receive stickers and get a chance to win a Langfuse t-shirt.
You will get a list of all issues that you can work on on the page itself.
Read more on official page.
Langfuse has 5.9k stars on GitHub and is built using TypeScript.
Some of the other events and projects are also offering cool swags. I've attached the hacktoberfest official page link in each.
- Devfest AI : Open source event to contribute to AI repositories.
- Composio : You can get t-shirts and stickers as swags.
- Mattermost : You will get limited-edition Mattermost digital swag.
- Postiz : a t-shirt for every merged PR (max 1 per person).
- Turbobot : In addition to the DigitalOcean event, Turbot is providing their swags (sticker + t-shirt) for contributions.
- Esri : This is different because they are offering Esri Summit Discount as a reward rather than swags.
1st Place gets a free registration to one Developer Summit of your choice (Esri European Developer Summit 2024, Esri Developer Summit 2025, or Esri European Developer Summit 2025).
2nd Place gets a 75% discount and 3rd place gets a 50% discount on Developer Summit registration (choice of the same events).
You will meet a lot of amazing folks.
- LambdaTest : For 3 contributions, you will receive Amazon vouchers (up to $10) and LambdaTest licenses for 90 days. If you make 5 or more contributions, you will get Amazon vouchers (up to $20) along with LambdaTest licenses for 90 days.
That's the end.
This is the complete hacktoberfest 2024 swag list.
I hope you love this.
Have a great day! Till next time.
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Anmol Baranwal
Loves writing about new open source projects and anything I learn.