Frequently Asked Questions
Clear answers about our programs, process, platform, and results.
Learn how BeMyApp helps enterprises turn technology, communities, and employee ideas into hands-on programs that people can learn from, build with, and carry forward.
About BeMyApp
What we do, the problems we solve, and what makes our model different.
What Is BeMyApp?
BeMyApp is a global innovation, developer relations, and community engagement agency that helps companies get developers, customers, partners, and employees actively using and building with their technology.
Since 2010, BeMyApp has designed and managed hands-on programs in more than 35 countries.
What Does BeMyApp Do?
BeMyApp designs, builds, and runs hands-on programs that drive technology adoption, developer engagement, and innovation. Programs can include developer relations campaigns, hackathons, workshops, challenges, conferences, and corporate innovation programs.
We handle strategy, recruitment, platform setup, production, participant engagement, and measurement, so the entire program stays connected from the first objective to the final report.
What Problems Does BeMyApp Solve?
BeMyApp helps organizations get people to actually use, build with, and contribute to their technology and ideas. Most clients come to us with one or more of these problems:
- Low technology adoption. A product, API, or platform has launched, but the target users are not trying it.
- Underused developer platforms. Developers sign up but never build anything real.
- Weak developer engagement. There is no active community around the product, so feedback and word of mouth stay thin.
- Stalled employee innovation. Teams have ideas but no structured way to test them.
- Slow community growth. The organization wants a lasting network of developers, startups, partners, or customers, not a one-off audience.
- Ideas that never become prototypes. Strategy decks pile up, but nothing gets built.
We address these challenges with hands-on programs, such as hackathons, workshops, and challenges, that move people from learning about a technology to building with it.
Why Do Companies Hire BeMyApp?
Companies hire BeMyApp because we handle the full program, from strategy to results, with one team and one platform. Most providers cover one piece. We combine five:
- Strategy. We start with your business objective and design the program around it.
- Community. We recruit the right participants, whether developers, startups, partners, or your own employees.
- Technology. Our proprietary platform runs registration, content delivery, team collaboration, and participant tracking.
- Execution. We manage every operational detail across in-person, virtual, and hybrid formats.
- Measurement. We track engagement and outcomes and report on what the program delivered.
We have run innovation and developer programs since 2010, in more than 35 countries, with 93.8% client satisfaction. Many clients return to expand programs into new regions or business units.
Is BeMyApp a Hackathon Company or a Developer Relations Agency?
Neither description tells the whole story. BeMyApp is a technology adoption and innovation partner.
Hackathons are one of our longest-running capabilities. We also design developer relations and corporate innovation programs that help clients teach audiences, grow communities, validate ideas, and move successful projects toward launch.
What Makes BeMyApp Different From Other Providers?
BeMyApp combines more than 15 years of program experience, a proprietary engagement platform, a global technical community, and full-service delivery.
Strategy, recruitment, technology, production, participant support, and measurement stay with one team. Every program is also fully white-labeled, so participants build a direct relationship with your company and your technology.
Programs and Approach
How programs are designed, who they can serve, and what happens after the event.
What Types of Programs Does BeMyApp Run?
BeMyApp runs hackathons, workshops, challenges, conferences, and accelerator-style programs organized around our Learn, Prototype, Launch framework.
- Learn: workshops, webinars, virtual conferences, coding challenges, and developer campaigns that teach participants a technology through hands-on use.
- Prototype: internal and external hackathons, innovation challenges, and corporate incubators where teams build working prototypes.
- Launch: online accelerators, startup programs, and corporate entrepreneurship programs that move the strongest ideas toward pilots and real use.
Programs can target developers, startups, students, partners, customers, or employees and can run in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format. Many clients combine formats, such as a workshop series followed by a hackathon and an accelerator for the strongest teams.
Does BeMyApp Provide Strategy as Well as Execution?
Yes. BeMyApp designs the program strategy and then runs it. That is the main difference between us and an event production company.
We begin by asking what business result the program needs to produce, such as more developers building on your platform, validated use cases for a new product, or employee teams with prototypes ready for a pilot. From there, we recommend the right format, audience, challenge themes, judging criteria, and success metrics.
Then we execute participant recruitment, marketing, platform setup, mentoring, judging, and day-to-day program management. After the program, we report on the outcomes against the goals we set together. Strategy and execution stay with one team, so nothing is lost in the handoff.
Can BeMyApp Run Programs for Both Employees and External Audiences?
Yes. BeMyApp runs internal programs for employees, external programs for developers, startups, partners, and customers, and mixed programs that bring both groups together.
- Internal programs help employees build new skills, test ideas, and align business units around technology priorities. Examples include employee hackathons, innovation sprints, and intrapreneurship programs.
- External programs help companies reach developers, startups, students, and partners to drive product adoption, source new solutions, or build a community. Examples include public hackathons, coding challenges, and startup programs.
- Mixed programs pair internal teams with outside talent, such as employees working alongside startups or external developers on a shared business challenge.
Each audience needs different recruitment, rules, communications, and formats. We design and manage those differences so every group gets a program that fits its goals.
What Happens After a Hackathon?
After a hackathon, the strongest projects move into validation, selection, and structured next steps so the work can turn into business results. Depending on your goals, BeMyApp can support:
- Validation. Experts and business stakeholders review projects for technical feasibility, business fit, and user value.
- Selection. The most promising teams and ideas are chosen against criteria agreed before the event.
- Incubation. Selected teams receive mentoring, coaching, and structured time to develop their projects further.
- Pilots. Promising solutions are tested in a real business setting with internal teams, customers, or partners.
- Adoption. Successful pilots are rolled out, integrated into products, or used as showcase use cases.
We also report on participation, project quality, and outcomes and can help keep participants engaged as an ongoing community.
Does BeMyApp Run AI Programs and Hackathons?
Yes. BeMyApp runs AI programs that move people from awareness to hands-on use.
Programs can combine training, workshops, hackathons, challenges, and follow-up so participants do not just learn about AI. They use it to solve a real problem, build a working concept, and identify ideas worth developing further. Programs can be designed for employees, developers, startups, partners, or mixed audiences.
Adoption and Results
How BeMyApp reaches participants, drives hands-on use, and measures outcomes.
Can BeMyApp Help Us Drive Adoption of Our Technology or Product?
Yes. BeMyApp drives technology adoption by getting your target users to learn, use, and build with your product in a structured program. People adopt a technology when they have used it to solve a real problem, not when they have only read about it.
- Training. Workshops, documentation walkthroughs, and expert sessions teach participants how your product works.
- Hands-on use. Participants work directly with your APIs, SDKs, tools, or platform during a hackathon or challenge.
- Prototypes. Teams build working projects on your technology, creating real-world use cases you can showcase.
- Adoption. Participants leave with experience, working code, and a reason to keep building. You gain sign-ups, integrations, product feedback, and qualified leads.
This approach works for developer platforms, cloud and infrastructure providers, API-first companies, enterprise software vendors, and companies launching emerging technologies.
How Does BeMyApp Recruit Participants?
BeMyApp recruits participants through our global developer community, targeted outreach, marketing campaigns, and partner networks, matched to the audience each program needs.
- Our community. Since 2010, we have built a network of developers, startups, students, and technical professionals who take part in programs across more than 35 countries.
- Targeted recruitment. We identify the specific skills, roles, industries, and regions a program needs, then reach those people through relevant technical communities, universities, and professional groups.
- Marketing. We run multi-channel campaigns, including email, social media, paid promotion, and landing pages, to drive qualified registrations.
- Partnerships. We work with technology partners, universities, startup ecosystems, and industry organizations to reach audiences you may not access alone.
For internal programs, we work with your teams on communications that encourage employee participation across departments and regions.
How Does BeMyApp Measure Success?
BeMyApp measures success against the business goals set at the start of each program, tracking everything from participation to adoption. Typical metrics include:
- Registrations: how many of the right people signed up, by role, region, and skill set.
- Engagement: attendance, session participation, team formation, and activity on the program platform.
- Projects: the number and quality of projects submitted and completed.
- Technology usage: sign-ups, API calls, SDK downloads, or integrations with your product during the program.
- Qualified leads: participants and organizations that show buying or partnership intent.
- Validated use cases: prototypes and ideas confirmed as viable for pilots, products, or showcases.
Our platform tracks participant activity throughout the program, and every engagement ends with a report on results and recommendations for next steps.
Working With BeMyApp
What an agency adds and how the program stays centered on your brand.
Why Work With an Agency Instead of Running a Hackathon In-House?
Running a successful program takes a specialized mix of recruitment, community management, engagement design, marketing, legal coordination, logistics, technology, mentors, judges, measurement, and post-event follow-through.
There are also costs that are easy to overlook. The budget is not limited to a platform or event production. It includes staff time, tooling, participant support, promotion, supplier coordination, and the learning curve that comes with building a new process.
BeMyApp brings that infrastructure and more than 15 years of experience into one team. Your internal staff can stay focused on business decisions, subject matter expertise, and participant relationships while we manage the program around them.
Can BeMyApp Run a Program Under Our Existing Brand?
Yes. Every BeMyApp program is fully white-labeled, so participants see your brand while we run the program behind the scenes.
The registration pages, program platform, emails, social campaigns, event materials, and participant communications all carry your name, logo, and visual identity. To participants, it is your hackathon, challenge, or accelerator. Behind the scenes, BeMyApp handles strategy, recruitment, platform setup, logistics, mentoring, judging, and reporting.
This keeps the relationship between your brand and your audience direct. Developers, startups, and employees connect with your company and your technology, and the community you build stays yours after the program ends.
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