Developer Launches HackForPinas, a Free Open-Source Directory for Philippine Hackathons

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A Filipino developer has built HackForPinas, a free and open-source platform designed to centralise the discovery of hackathons and coding competitions across the Philippines. The project was born out of frustration with events being scattered across university, government, corporate, and community websites. The platform aggregates data using multiple web-scraping strategies to pull information from varied sources into a single consistent dataset. To prevent spam and misinformation, community submissions go through an admin moderation workflow before being listed publicly. The application also incorporates security measures such as schema validation and maintains an audit log of all moderation activity.

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