We kicked off this year’s Hacktoberfest with one goal: build with intention, contribute with impact.
The results tell the story: thoughtful work, higher engagement, and genuine community spirit across the board. Hacktoberfest 2025 showed that when people care about why they contribute, the quality of what they build naturally follows.
Snapshot of the Season
The numbers speak for themselves:
- 1,871 Pull Requests (contributions) submitted by
- 565 individuals (112 new!) -> an average of 3 submissions each to real, active projects
- 845 new Forks just this year, making it to a total of 3,264 copies of one of our repositories in the hands of the community
Those numbers reflect more than activity. They represent hundreds of hours of learning, experimentation, and collaboration.
And for those who completed Hacktoberfest 2025, that effort also translated into something tangible: a tree planted through the program’s sustainability initiative, turning digital contributions into real-world growth once again. 🌳
Repo Highlights
code-snippets
code-snippets remains the heart of our Hacktoberfest projects. Developers from all over jumped in to share clever utilities, quick fixes, and creative shortcuts that make building on the Now Platform easier every day. It’s where newcomers test their skills, experts refine patterns, and everyone leaves the repo a little better than they found it.
Hack4Good Idea Submission
Here's a message from our partners from Global Impact, @Alan Norris and @VictorNininger:
Together, you all submitted over 400 ideas for future Hack4Good initiatives, which is absolutely incredible! Each idea represents a unique vision for how ServiceNow technology can be harnessed to drive positive change in communities around the world. These submissions will now be shared with product teams, innovators, community advocates, and volunteers who are passionate about turning creativity into real-world impact.
A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in Hacktoberfest and contribute to this growing collection of transformative ideas. Your passion and ingenuity continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible — and together, we’re shaping a better future, one solution at a time.
ActionPack
This year also marked the debut of ActionPack, and it made a confident entrance.
ActionPack quickly became a cornerstone for Flow Designer power users, giving developers a practical way to extend ServiceNow automation through reusable, high-quality actions.
The care and consistency behind these contributions — from documentation to testing — proved that when developers build with purpose, great things happen.
Spoiler
We’ll publish a focused look at the ActionPack 1.0 release in an upcoming post.
Volunteer Reviewers and Community Spirit
This event simply wouldn’t happen without our volunteer maintainers, who keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes. They reviewed hundreds of pull requests and made the process collaborative, constructive, and welcoming for everyone involved.
Their consistency and mentorship are the backbone of Hacktoberfest with ServiceNow. Every accepted contribution, every improved idea, and every new builder who learned something this month benefited from their effort.
Shout out to our top 5 reviewers this year:
- @Ravi Chandra_K with a staggering 490 reviews 🥇
- @Shakeel Shaik with 177 reviews 🥈
- @Voona Rohila with 166 reviews 🥉
- @sachin_namjoshi with 99 reviews
- @Willem with 81 review
Head over here the full the leaderboard.
Thank you all! You embody what this community is about.
What We Learned
Hacktoberfest 2025 showed that simplicity works. Clear goals, fast feedback, and a shared sense of purpose brought out the best in everyone.
Reviewers stayed active, contributors stayed engaged, and the projects benefited from both.
Most importantly, we proved that open source in the ServiceNow ecosystem doesn’t need huge incentives to thrive. It just needs a community that cares enough to show up and build together.
What’s Next (and where's my swag?)
We’re working on finalizing list of contributors that me the qualifications and posted on the original Hacktoberfest blog post . So if you’ve been waiting for your swag, keep an eye out; it’s coming your way soon.
But most importantly, Hacktoberfest doesn’t have to stop in October. If you enjoyed building with intention, keep contributing: submit new improvements, propose ideas, and keep sharing what you learn. You can find the ServiceNow Developer Program's public repositories here.
Thank You
To every contributor, maintainer, and member of this growing community - thank you!
Your time, creativity, and collaboration are what make this event more than just another open-source initiative. Together, we’ve proven that when we build with purpose, we build something that lasts.
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