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The List of Companies Offering Unique Swag - Hacktoberfest 2025

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Swag List 2025

The Original - DigitalOcean, MLH, Auth0, and AMD, plus the Community Partners

  • Swag: Digital Rewards Kit, t-shirt for the first 10k people with 6+ accepted PRs, and a planted tree
  • Requirements: 6 merged or accepted pull requests in any eligible repository
  • How to sign up: Hacktoberfest Website
  • Notes: For your PR to count it must be:
  • Submitted in a public repo, AND
    • The PR is labelled as hacktoberfest-accepted by a maintainer, OR
  • Submitted in a repo labelled hacktoberfest, AND
    • Merged, OR
    • Approved

A to Z Order of Companies

A

Appwrite

B

Ballerina

  • Swag: Ballerina swag kit (Amazon vouchers, exclusive swag pack, WSO2 certification vouchers, $1,000 WSO2 cloud credits)
  • Requirements: Contribute to the open issues of the Ballerina projects or submit a Low Code / No Code contributions, such as written tutorials or instructional videos.
  • How to sign up: Once your PR is merged or Low Code / No Code contribution is published, submit this form.
  • Notes: Check the Ballerina Hacktoberfest page for more details.

C

Cebu Community

  • Swag: Top contributors, best local contributions, and winning teams get special recognition and prizes. Swag currently unknown.
  • Requirements:
    • Form or join teams (up to 4 members) during the kickoff or through community channels.
    • The hackathon runs from October 5 to 26, 2025
    • Contributions to Cebu-based projects count double (or carry extra weight)
  • How to sign up: Create an event-specific account via “OneCebby” to stay updated, find teams, and track participation.
  • Notes: Full details on the Cebu Community blog here

Cloudinary

  • Swag: The first 30 participants to submit a valid pull request to one of the Cloudinary SDK repos (see below) are rewarded with:
    • 1 Cloudinary Hacktoberfest T-shirt (Limited Edition)
    • 2 Cloudinary Hacktoberfest Stickers (Limited Edition)
    • 3 Cloudinary Stickers
    • 1 Cloudinary Unicorn
  • Requirements:
    • Open an Issue on the Official SDK or Community SDK repos
    • Make a valid PR to fix the issue
    • Spam PRs or small changes do not count towards swag.
  • How to sign up: Once your contribution is accepted and merged, they'll provide you with an address form.
  • Notes: Full details on the Cloudinary blog here

CopilotKit

  • Swag: CopilotKit swag
  • Requirements:
    • Project Setup and Guidelines: Follow the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md.
    • Choose an Issue tagged hacktoberfest, see the link below.
    • Submit Your Demo: Build and submit your demo as per CONTRIBUTING.md.
    • Share Your Project: Post on X/Twitter tagging @Copilotkit and using #CopilotKitHacktoberfest; top-liked projects win,
  • How to sign up: No signup needed.
  • Issues: See the list of open hacktoberfest issues here.
  • Notes: Check out the announcement post for more details.

D

devICT

DocsGPT

  • Swag: T-shirt
  • Requirements:
    • Make one meaningful PR for an issue with the hacktoberfest label.
    • Contributions can include code, API extensions, documentation, or design improvements.
  • How to sign up: Fill out this form after your PR is merged.
  • Issues: DocsGPT/issues
  • Notes: Check the announcement for more details.

Dodo Payments

  • Swag: Swag pack (T-shirt, cap, and stickers).
  • Requirements:
    • Claim the issue and outline your approach.
    • Work on the issue and implement code or docs and add tests.
    • Make meaningful PRs which include everything that is needed.
  • How to sign up: Sign up here Dodo Payments Sign up.
  • Issues: Check open issues or open one in the participating repositories.
  • Notes: Read the rules and find all the participating repositories on the announcement page.

.NET Foundation (dotnet)

  • Swag: Digital certificate for Hacktoberfest.
  • Requirements:
    • Make at least one meaningful pull request (PR) to an official .NET Foundation repository.
    • Substantive contributions include examples such as code, documentation, tests, CI or configuration, samples, tutorials, and localization.
  • How to sign up: When your PR is accepted or merged, fill this claim form which will open during Oct 27-31 (UTC).
  • Notes: Full details on the .NET Foundation blog here.

G

goose

H

Hyperswitch

  • Swag: T-shirt and Hoodie
  • Requirements:
    • Contribute to open issues with good first issue and help wanted tags.
    • 1 merged PR: T-shirt
    • 3+ merged PRs: T-shirt and Hoodie
  • How to sign up: No known signup method.
  • Issues: Find issues in the Hyperswitch GitHub Repository
  • Notes: Check out the announcement page for more details.

I

Interledger

L

Lamatic

  • Swag: T-shirt, stickers, exclusive Lamatic swag
  • Requirements:
    • Make 4 valid PRs to any of the three repositories.
    • PRs must be valid and follow project guidelines.
    • Add hacktoberfest tag to PR title or description.
  • How to sign up: No known signup link.
  • Issues:
  • Notes: Read the announcement for more details.

LambdaTest

  • Swag: Amazon gift cards and LambdaTest Licenses
  • Requirements:
    • Have 3+ merged PRs into a LambdaTest project.
    • 3 Contributions – Amazon Vouchers (up to $10) and a LambdaTest License (90 days).
    • 5 Contributions or More – Amazon Vouchers (up to $20) and a LambdaTest License (90 days).
  • How to sign up: No known signup link.
  • Notes: Find out more details in their Hacktoberfest repo.

LocalStack

  • Swag: Unknown
  • Requirements:
    • Participants must submit contributions during HacktoberFest (October) via PRs to LocalStack repos (e.g. localstack-pro-samples, localstack-docs)
    • The PRs should be non-draft (ready for review) so they count for HacktoberFest rules
  • How to sign up: Sign up here after your PR is merged.
  • Issues:
  • Notes: Check out the announcement for more details. Only for the first 20 contributors.

M

MindsDB

  • Swag: Github Sponsorship, MindsDB T-shirt, MacBook Pro
  • Requirements:
    • Build an application with MindsDB Knowledge Bases + MindsDB, and write a blog post explaining how it works. Share it on Linkedin, and X/Twitter with a post mentioning @MindsDB.
    • Write a pull request with your use-case implementation in the use-cases folder (create a folder for your use case with a descriptive name)
    • Top 3 PRs, top 3 social media posts and 3 best blog posts will receive cash prizes as GitHub sponsorships and T-Shirt.
    • Every winner will get 1 entry into the Apple MacBook Pro prize draw.
  • How to sign up: No known dedicated signup list.
  • Notes: Check out the MindsDB Hacktoberfest GitHub folder in their repo for full details.

Modtoberfest

Major League Hacking (MLH)

Q

QuestDB

S

Service Now

T

Twenty

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HF 2025

If you're looking for the Swag List from 2018 through 2024 click here for the GitHub releases, click here for the tags, and see the 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 branches.