Signal is a desktop app now. No sign-up, nothing sent anywhere.

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FOR STUDENTS WHO THINK IT’S TOO EARLY

Every Opportunity.
None of the Scrolling.

You found the hackathon the day after registration closed. You bookmarked the fellowship and never opened it again. So you keep checking Unstop, MLH, Discord and that one lab page, in case you’re missing something.

Signal checks them for you, in the fields you pick, and puts up the few worth your time — including the ones you’d skip because you assume you’re too early for them.

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INBOUND HACKATHONS RESEARCH 9 SOURCES
8 AVAILABLE NOW
YOUR RULES FILTER
  1. MATCH
  2. DEDUPE
  3. THRESHOLD
  4. SORT
INBOX — 59 CLOSES IN 3D FILTERED — 241

WATCHING

  • GMAIL + LINKEDIN MAIL NOT AVAILABLE YET
  • DISCORD BOT
  • DEVPOST
  • DEVFOLIO
  • UNSTOP
  • MLH
  • WIKICFP
  • RSS / GOOGLE ALERTS
  • PAGE WATCH

ONE STUDENT, ONE DAY

300 things arrived. 59 were worth opening.

300ARRIVED
59CLEARED THE FILTER

SEVEN SOURCES, NINE HOURS, 11 SEPTEMBER 2026. THE OTHER 241 WERE REAL TOO — JUST NOT FOR HIM.

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You decide what counts.

Type in what you care about and watch the list below re-sort itself. This is the same scoring the app runs, on real listings.

SIGNAL INBOX0 / 10 CLEARED
RECALCULATING LIVE
UNSTOP

Hack Devengers 2.0

UNSTOP

PARANOVA

MLH

Diamondhacks

MLH

MakeCU

MLH

HackNex Season 2

DEVPOST

RoadStar Hackathon

WIKICFP

ICDS 2026: Digital Sovereignty

WIKICFP

ICAIIT 2027: Applied Innovations in IT

WIKICFP

9th AccML 2027: Accelerated Machine Learning

WIKICFP

PCS 2027: Picture Coding Symposium

HOW IT DECIDES

Two ways to decide.
One pipeline.

Use it with no key at all, or plug in your own model for a second opinion on each one. Whichever you use, you can see why something scored what it did — nothing is ranked by company name, and nothing is hidden behind “the algorithm”.

A / WITH YOUR OWN MODEL

“Am I ready for this one?”

The question you actually ask before applying. Plug in your own model — Anthropic, anything OpenAI-compatible, or a server on your own machine — and each opportunity comes back with a straight answer, scored 0 to 10 and always labelled as the model’s words, not ours.

WHAT EACH BRIEF ANSWERSLLM
FIT
Why this one is in front of you
STAGE
Whether you’re far enough along
GAINS
What you’d walk away with
ASKS
What you have to submit
EFFORT
Roughly what it costs you
FIRST STEPS
What to do tonight
B / NO KEY, NO MODEL

Your words, counted.

Tell Signal the things you care about and the words that put you off. It scores every listing on those, in your browser, for free. You get fewer details than a model gives you, but you can check the arithmetic yourself — and it runs on everything either way.

See the four steps it runs — match, dedupe, threshold, sort →

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What’s left is short enough
to read over coffee.

Every row says where it came from and why it’s here. Save it, mark it applied, or archive it and never see it again. Everything runs on your own machine: no account, and nothing leaves it unless you add a key.

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VERSION 0.1.0 · 64-BIT LINUX. WINDOWS AND MAC BUILDS ARE NOT READY YET.

SIGNAL / DESKTOPV0.1.0
ALL KINDSALL SOURCESRECENT ↓
HACKATHON

Hack Devengers 2.0

UNSTOP · MATCHED HACKATHON · DUE 18 SEP

5
CFP

9th AccML 2027

WIKICFP · MATCHED MACHINE LEARNING

4
HACKATHON

RoadStar Hackathon

DEVPOST · MATCHED HACKATHON · DUE 13 SEP

2
ARCHIVED

Opportunity with an excluded term

STORED FOR DEDUPE · KEPT OUT OF INBOX

0

SAME SOURCES, DIFFERENT LISTS

Three students.
Three different filters.

01

Thinks she’s too early for any of it

First year, hasn’t shipped anything public yet. Hackathon boards only, “beginner” and “first-time” pushed up, anything asking for a PhD pushed out of sight.

BEGINNERWEB DEVELOPMENTSECURITY
02

Moving into a field he didn’t study

Mechanical engineering, wants to end up in robotics. Terms for the new field, workshops and summer schools boosted, and WikiCFP on so he can see what that world is actually working on.

ROBOTICSSUMMER SCHOOLWORKSHOP
03

Has the projects, needs the rooms

Ships things and wants somewhere to put them: hackathons, open-source programmes, and calls for papers close enough to edge AI to be worth a weekend.

OPEN SOURCEEDGE AICALL FOR PAPERS