> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.hackutd.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> A modern hackathon judging platform

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Jury is HackUTD's open source project judging platform. It is a pairwise judging system built with modern technologies, aimed at optimizing the user experience of judges, hackers, and organizers. Jury uses an individual ranking and rank aggregation system to automate the judging process and help organizers get more data from fewer judges to decide the winners of your hackathon.

Jury was inspired by [Gavel by anishathalye](https://github.com/anishathalye/gavel).

<Card title="Try it out online, right now!" icon="flask" href="https://jury-dev.mikz.dev" horizontal arrow cta="Open the staging app">
  Play with the staging app. The admin password is `admin`.
</Card>

## Features

* Automated judging application with one-click deployment
* User-friendly judging interface with randomized project assignments
* Full-featured admin dashboard with a variety of configurations and export options
* Accurate rank aggregation algorithm with aggregated sub-category scores
* Built with modern technologies to run blazingly fast
* Quick and easy import from Devpost
* Self-hosting on DigitalOcean and MongoDB Atlas for almost no cost

## Where to go next

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  <Card title="Using Jury" icon="rocket" href="/jury/usage/introduction">
    Get Jury up and running for your event.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Deploying for your hackathon" icon="cloud" href="/jury/usage/deploy">
    One-click deploy to DigitalOcean with a free MongoDB Atlas database.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Jury admin" icon="gauge" href="/jury/usage/admin/introduction">
    Configure Jury, add projects and judges, and run judging from the admin dashboard.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Judge interface" icon="user-check" href="/jury/usage/judge">
    What judges see, from onboarding to ranking projects.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Contributing" icon="code-pull-request" href="/jury/contributing">
    Set up a development environment and work on Jury itself.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Technical details" icon="gears" href="/jury/details/overview">
    The nitty-gritty details behind how Jury and its algorithm work.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Reference" icon="book" href="/jury/reference/internal-api">
    Internal API routes and environment variables.
  </Card>
</Columns>

## Join our Discord support server

<Card title="Jury Support Discord" icon="discord" href="https://discord.gg/b2VQsMsakS">
  Ask questions and get help using Jury at your hackathon.
</Card>

<Note>
  These docs were migrated from the original Jury documentation site at [jury.mikz.dev](https://jury.mikz.dev), which remains available. For deep technical detail, the [DeepWiki technical documentation](https://deepwiki.com/hackutd/jury) covers architecture, APIs, and internals generated from the source.
</Note>