Eight episodes carry the season from a quiet, asynchronous build to a stadium-style finale.
8
Episodes
30
Day qualifier
20
Finalists
₹10L
Prize pool
30 days to build at your own pace and scale the live leaderboard. Thousands of working developers enter, fully remote, fully asynchronous.
The leaderboard speaks. The top hundred lock their place as the field begins to thin.
A high-speed technical evaluation and a media screening on camera.
The final 20 arrive on set, split into 10 power duos, and step under the lights.
The duos ship fully operational applications inside time-compressed studio rounds.
Tighter briefs, harder constraints, higher stakes — the field narrows.
Finalists pitch their stack to a panel of industry titans. Cash awards are claimed.
One name is crowned Code Kitchen Season 01 Winner and hoists the Season Best Trophy.
The qualifier is the only way onto the roadmap. Don't watch someone else lift the trophy on screen.