How to use the Hackathon plan template

Start a board from it
Use this template opens a new Freero board with the Hackathon plan template on it (sign up free first). On a board you already have, open Templates in the toolbar and search for “Hackathon plan”.
Follow the instruction on the board
“Decide before the event what happens to winners: who funds them and when. Without a path after the demos, the next hackathon gets fewer entries.”
Fill in each part
- Announce 4 weeks before
- Form teams 2 weeks before
- Prepare 1 week before
- Build Thu–Fri
- Demos Fri 15:00
- Afterwards 2 weeks after
Bring your team and your agents
Invite people to the board or share a link, and work on it together live. The timer is in the top bar, private mode and voting in the board menu, and Claude or ChatGPT can join through Freero’s MCP server.

Work on it with an AI agent

Connect an assistant once and it works on the board with you, with your permissions: by default it reads and proposes, and people decide.

You ask: “Fill in the Hackathon plan board from these notes.”
What happens It reads the board, then proposes sticky notes for it. Nothing changes until someone on the board accepts them.
You ask: “Group what we wrote into themes and list the actions.”
What happens It proposes clusters with a title each and task cards for the actions, labelled with its name and yours.

Hackathon project pitch
One page for a hackathon team: the problem, who has it, what you will build in the time, the demo you will show and who you need.
Morphological box
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Brain dump and sort
Empty everything on your mind about a topic onto notes, then sort the pile into what to act on, decide, delegate or drop.
Idea burst
A central challenge with four idea clusters to fill, sort and vote on.
Mind map starter
A central topic with branches and sub-ideas, ready to grow in both directions.
Eight sketches
Fold one problem into eight fast sketches, one minute each, then pick the strongest.