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Hackathon spots, free credits, scholarships — students and early-career people share what CatchIt helped them not miss. Every story below is read and approved by a human before it goes up.
I'd completely written off getting into a hackathon this term — my calendar was chaos. CatchIt's deadline countdown on the detail page nudged me to register for Hack the North with two days to spare. Our team placed top 10.
Followed the "Scholarships · UK" filter the week it launched and got an instant alert when a DeepMind-adjacent bursary went live. Applied same day. Without the alert I'd have found out after it closed, like every year before.
Saved three internship listings in one sitting, tracked status on each from the account page, and got the offer from the one I nearly forgot to follow up on. The "applied" tracker is genuinely the only reason I didn't lose track.
GitHub Student Pack, AWS credits, JetBrains licences — I found all of it in one afternoon instead of the usual scavenger hunt across five different blog posts. Added the free-credits filter to my bookmarks.
Researchers get ignored by most of these tools, so I wasn't expecting much. The conference CFP alerts actually caught two workshops in my exact subfield that I'd never have found through mailing lists.
Honestly just wanted free cloud credits for a side project. Ended up finding a paid summer internship through the same feed a week later. Did not expect that.
Submitted a talk to a student CFP I saw on here with about 30 hours left on the clock — the countdown timer is what made me actually sit down and do it instead of "later."
The "closing this week" filter is now the first thing I check every Monday. Caught a design-track hackathon ticket that would've sold out by the time I usually get round to checking these things.
Not a student anymore, so most of these tools ignore me completely. CatchIt's "professionals" filter actually surfaced a free AWS credits program and a CFP I could realistically submit to. Small thing, but it mattered.
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