Major League Hacking
Hackathons, fellowships, and DEV's online community for software creators.

Major League Hacking (MLH) is a global developer community platform that organizes hackathons, fellowships, and developer events for students and early-career engineers. It offers a 12-week remote fellowship program where participants work on open source projects and earn a stipend. The platform is supported by major tech companies like Google, GitHub, and Snowflake, and serves over 5 million developers across 100 countries.
MLH runs hackathons and a remote 12-week fellowship program where participants join project tracks, collaborate on open source projects, and earn a stipend while learning from engineers at top tech companies.
Students and early-career software developers
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
- Company
- Major League Hacking
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