ThinkTea is free for hackathons.

Every feature, for every team — free from two days before your event to the final commit, then read-only for 30 days to export or keep. No trial, no credit card.

Taking part? Open the link your organizer shared to start or join a team.

Running something else? Game jams · Film jams · Animation challenges · Art & comic jams

One shared workspace per team, ready before the clock starts

A project brief, task board and asset library seeded for every team
Real-time collaboration — the whole team in one document, not six forked copies
Annotate the demo video frame by frame while you rehearse the pitch
50 GB of storage per seat, pooled across the team
Nothing to install: it runs in a browser, on whatever laptop somebody brought
Export everything to Markdown, images and PDF when the weekend ends
No AI in the tooling, and nothing anyone uploads is used to train a model

Teams stop losing the first hour to “where are we putting things” — the workspace is already there when they form.

Two days early, editable for the whole jam

Access opens two days before your jam so nobody’s installing at the starting gun, and every team is free and fully editable right through to the closing whistle. After the jam ends the workspace stays read-only for 30 days so you can export or decide.

Pick your own dates. Global Game Jam sites, we’re looking at you: choose your 48 hours and just tell us when you register.

Who qualifies

Student and community hackathons, university CS society events, civic and charity hacks, and internal company hack weeks that are open to students. Any size — a fifty-person campus event counts as much as a thousand-person marathon.

How teams get in

Organizers

Organizers: register your hackathon below. Once we approve it you get a public event page — set your team and seat caps, then share the link.

Participants

Participants: open your event’s page to start a team (and share its invite link) or browse and join an open one. Each team gets its own shared workspace.

Register your hackathon

A few details. We review by hand and email your event page link — usually within a day.

Your estimate helps us size your event’s team and seat caps — set it a little above your expected turnout. You can ask us to adjust it any time.

For organizers: a ready-to-paste blurb

Organizers won't write their own sponsor blurb — so here's one, ready to paste:

[Hackathon name] teams get ThinkTea free — a shared workspace for project briefs, task boards, and feedback on demos, with no AI. Start or join a team at thinktea.me/jam/[your-hackathon].

Need a logo? Grab the brand pack — logos and a sponsor badge for every event type, SVG and PNG in light and dark, plus 50- and 100-word descriptions. Download the pack (ZIP) — or browse the files in the README.

What we ask in return

Please credit ThinkTea on your jam’s page and sponsor list — our name, logo, and a link back. That’s the deal: the full toolset for your whole jam, a mention in return. It takes a minute, and it’s how the next jam’s organizers find us.

After the jam

When the jam ends the workspace turns read-only for 30 days — every page, board, and upload stays exactly where it is, and export is always one click away. To keep editing (and keep it for good), any member can subscribe to Team ($4/seat per month) and it becomes theirs — the whole crew’s work, carried straight over. Workspaces that aren’t kept are removed after the 30 days.

No AI

ThinkTea has no AI features and never will — your work isn’t training data and your feedback isn’t autocompleted.

Questions? A real person reads jams@thinktea.me.