Automated event card-creating and more

[harbar20]

Hello Hack Club team,

I posted my suggestions in #hq in the Hack Club Slack, but @thesephist asked me to also make an issue so that you guys would know what exactly I'm asking for. These are my ideas in the form of a list:

• Automated hackathon card creating. It's in the title: I want event cards to be automated. This is one of the biggest issues with the site right now, in my opinion. Because it's pretty hard to apply for a spot on the site, and it's also pretty low-tech with that Google Form, event organizers don't really use this site much. If this whole process was automated, this would be way easier to manage, both for staff and for the organizers. I'm imagining some sort of Airtable form (connected to an Airtable sheet that makes it easier to visualize all the past events) that automatically creates the event card and adds it to the site. Further, (and I don't know if this has been done already), once the event date has passed, it should automatically be moved to the "Past Events" area of the site.

• Basic HCB integration. I don't want every single event added to Hack Club Bank to show up on the site, but I do want the form to both be in the Documents tab of the Bank dashboard (or even as a little button in the corner of the dashboard, which would probably be preferable because it's easier to access) and also have an easy way to get to Bank from the Hackathons site (so that it's easy for organizers to switch between the two). This fixes many problems with the site: it gives organizers the option to actually put their hackathon up (making the website more up-to-date), it gives the hackathon free advertising, etc. It also fixes the problem of the review process: to get into HCB, you'd need to go through a rigorous review process anyway, so that part could just be skipped. That second point is a good segue to my next suggestion.

• A complete design overhaul. I know that this suggestion wasn't in my message in the Slack, but I do think this is a really good move. The announcement of such an overhaul would generate tons of traffic to the site, and it'd also just make the site look good overall. A new Bank button/hyperlink, a new overall look, etc. Further, I'd like each event card to show (when hovered over) how many registrants this event has (I don't know the plausibility of this really) and also how many people have clicked on this event from the Hackathons site. This would be awesome.

And that's it! I'm so sorry for such a long issue, but I think this would really help the website be used more and look/feel awesome. @harshith in the Slack or just DM me if you want to talk about this more!

[polytroper]

@harbar20 I think these are really good ideas. Max and I are talking about doing some work along these lines.