🏆 Golden Diya
Awards
Celebrating India's brightest innovators, creators, startups, and student builders launching the future on IndiHunt.
Award Categories
Ten prestigious titles designed to represent and award excellence across every tech vertical in India.
Best AI Product
For pioneering advancements in artificial intelligence models, applications, or infrastructure.
Best Student Project
Recognizing outstanding products built by student developers or innovators in universities.
Startup of the Year
Awarding the fastest growing and most disruptive venture launched on our community.
Best Open Source Project
Celebrating contribution, community growth, and impact in the open-source software space.
Best Mobile App
Designed for premium user experience, performance, and accessibility on iOS or Android.
Best Web Application
Rewarding clean web architectures, outstanding execution, and premium features.
Best Design
For projects that exhibit exceptional visual style, interactions, and aesthetic mastery.
Community Choice
The people's choice voted directly by the active members of our builder community.
Rising Creator
For solo developers or indie hackers showing incredible promise and speed.
Innovation Award
For the most unique, experimental, and out-of-the-box tech launched this year.
Judging Criteria
How our panel of judges and the community score nominees.
Uniqueness of solution, technology complexity, and creative positioning.
Market response, user growth, problem significance, and value generated.
UI/UX details, smooth micro-animations, typography, and premium styling.
Performance speed, security measures, clean stack, and system stability.
Leaderboard status, comments, reviews, and community upvotes.
Product completeness, feature set, consistency, and founder focus.
Awards Timeline
The road to the Golden Diya trophy.
Nomination Opens
Submit your own product or nominate other creators.
Submission Deadline
All nominee detail files and descriptions must be completed.
Community Voting
Public voting opens for community choice categories.
Judging Period
Expert judges score final candidates against technical standards.
Award Ceremony
Winners announced in Bangalore and livestreamed globally.
Hall of Fame
Celebrating past winners who built next-gen tech.
DocuSign AI
Best AI ProductA smart assistant that parses 100-page complex contracts in seconds.
CodeFast CLI
Best Student ProjectSpeedy developer compilation tool created by students from IIT Delhi.
Caloi Nutrition
Startup of the YearAI-driven local diet coach for traditional Indian meals.
Winner Perks & Prizes
Winning a Golden Diya extends beyond the trophy.
Cash Prize Pool
Direct grant funding from sponsors to support early-stage server and operating costs.
Golden Trophy
A physical, custom-designed Golden Diya trophy engraved with your product name.
Homepage Showcase
Featured spot on the IndiHunt explorer for 1 full week to drive massive traffic.
Investor Visibility
Curated networking dinners and intros to top Venture Capitals and Angel groups in India.
Nominate Your Product
Put your creation under India's tech spotlight. Submissions for this year's awards open in September.