Gracie Gregory (she/her) for The DEV Team

Posted on Apr 12, 2022 • Edited on Apr 14, 2022

Announcing the Appwrite Hackathon on DEV!

#appwritehack #appwrite #meta

There's a brand new opportunity for you to sharpen your software development skills while educating others, and earning some amazing prizes — right here on DEV...

Announcing the Appwrite Hackathon on DEV 🎉

This is our last DEV hackathon for a number of months, so if you've been considering participating in a past DEV contest, this is the time!

Read on for more details about Appwrite and the fun challenge they're extending to DEV members over the next few weeks.

Appwrite is a self-hosted backend-as-a-service platform that gives developers all the APIs required to build any application. With Appwrite, you can add a number of crucial services into your app including user authentication, file management, image handling, Cloud Functions, Realtime database and more!

From now through May 12th, we're offering you the opportunity to build a new application using Appwrite for the chance to earn/win some awesome prizes (including up to $2,000 USD). In the process of building your app and writing your DEV submission post, you’ll get better acquainted with Appwrite's end-to-end backend server for Web, Mobile, Native, or Backend apps✨

Appwrite Resources

Prizes

4 Grand Prize Winners (one in each category):

$2,000 USD gift card or equivalent
$300 USD credit to the Forem Shop
Appwrite t-shirt
Custom Appwrite Stickers
DEV Sticker Pack
DEV “Appwrite Hackathon” Grand Prize profile badge

Runner-Up Prizes (10 Total):

$200 USD gift card or equivalent
$150 USD credit to the Forem Shop
Appwrite t-shirt
Custom Appwrite Stickers
DEV Sticker Pack
DEV “Appwrite Hackathon” Runner-Up profile badge

Participants (with a valid project):

DEV Sticker Pack
Appwrite T-shirt
DEV “Appwrite Hackathon” participant profile badge

Here's a preview of Appwrite's awesome swag offerings:

How to submit your app and enter the Appwrite Hackathon on DEV

Install Appwrite
Create an app using Appwrite that falls under one of the categories listed above.
Use one of the following permissive licenses for your code: MIT, Apache, BSD-2, BSD-3, or Commons Clause.
Use this post template to officially submit your application for the hackathon
Be sure to publish your submission on DEV between April 12 and May 12 (@ 11:59 PM UTC), and provide your app’s URL, screenshot, description, and source code

Heads-up that you'll only be able to view our submission template linked above if you're logged into DEV.

Additional notes:

We encourage you to share update posts on DEV using the #appwritehack tag to keep us posted on your progress (hint: use series: [“series name”] in the markdown heading of all your Appwrite Hackathon-related posts to link all content in a series)
Multiple submissions are allowed
If you collaborate with anyone, please list their DEV handles in your submission post so we can award a profile badge to your entire team! DEV does not handle prize-splitting, so in the event your project is named a Grand Prize-winner or runner-up, you will need to split those amongst yourselves. Thank you for understanding!

Additional Rules

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to 18+. Contest entry period ends May 12, 2022, 11:59 PM UTC. Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law or regulation. All entries must be new projects and created during the hackathon period. For Official Rules, see Contest Announcement Page and General Contest Official Rules.

Community Support

To ask any questions about Appwrite throughout the hackathon, leave a comment in the Appwrite Hackathon help thread

We also have a community discussion thread where you can share your ideas and get suggestions on improvements from the DEV community as you build your app. We encourage you to share your progress along the way to generate more excitement and benefit from additional community feedback suggestions.

Important Dates 🗓

April 12, 2022: Hackathon Begins
May 12, 2022: Hackathon Submission Due at 11:59 PM UTC
May 13, 2022: Submission judging begins

Winners will be selected and announced in the weeks following the final submission deadline. Stay tuned!

We cannot wait to see how you approach this fun challenge — and the amazing applications you come up with.

Happy coding!

Top comments (112)

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Apr 12 '22

Can't wait to see your submissions, everyone!

Mạnh Đạt • May 6 '22

Just a question, if my application involve a mobile app, a web app and a server app, would this be 3 submissions or just one?

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • May 6 '22

Our judges will likely pick the best-fit category even if you list multiple in your submission since it's only possible to win under one category. So, I'd recommend you to go ahead and list the one you think fits best 😊

Eldad A. Fux • Apr 12 '22

Very excited to see all the cool stuff everyone are going to create!! 🤩

Mahmoud Harmouch • Apr 12 '22 • Edited

Another hackathon on the list. It is a web3 thing! I am in. Keep up the grind folks! At the end of the day, We're all gonna make it!

Gracie Gregory (she/her) • Apr 12 '22

Love the enthusiasm and can't wait to see your project 🎉

Mostafa Said • Apr 12 '22

Awesome! I'll read more about appwrite and maybe I will participate if i could learn it fast enough 🤷‍♂️

Matej Bačo • Apr 13 '22

Trust me, Appwrite is one of the easiest to learn! Fun fact, you dont need to learn everything at once - you can gradually add features as you learn about them 😇
For me the startign point was a cool reading where Appwrite team built real application: 30days.appwrite.io/

Mostafa Said • Apr 13 '22

Well, I'm installing docker for the first time and i would love to start working with VueJS + appwrite. There are zero results on google for how to install them together. I could only find demo codes on GitHub but not a single guide on the installation of appwrite in vue. Also for deployment, I don't believe it works with netlify or heroku am i correct?

Matej Bačo • Apr 13 '22

First you follow installation instructions to setup Appwrite server: appwrite.io/docs/installation

After that, you use JavaScript library with Vue, just like with any other framework. So you can follow these docs: appwrite.io/docs/getting-started-f...

Mostafa Said • Apr 13 '22

Perfect ❤ but about the deployment, does it work on Netlify or Heroku?

Matej Bačo • Apr 13 '22

Netlify is static hosting, so it won't work there. We plan to support heroku in future, but not yet. For nwo you can easily host it on, for instance, DigitalOcean using 1 click setup: marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/...

Mostafa Said • Apr 13 '22

Awesome. Final question and sorry for being silly 😂 about the Hachathon, does it require the project to be deployed or go live?

Since it's not yet supported on Heroku I believe to be deployed anywhere else would cost money.

Aashir Khan • Apr 13 '22

You can use render.com (they have a small free plan) for NodeJS server hosting. Also you can use repl.com to build too, they provide a publicly shareable url and a small 512 mb ram.

Matej Bačo • Apr 14 '22

Hmm, as far as I am concerned, live deployment is not necessary. As long as there are some screenshots/showcases, open-sourced project with proper readme to follow, I would say that is fine.

Mostafa Said • Apr 14 '22

Awesome! Thank you so much for the info :)

tq-bit • Apr 16 '22 • Edited

I imagine you can also extend the docker-compose template here: gist.github.com/eldadfux/977869ff6...

You could then use a utility container for appwrite CLI and nginx (or traefic) for your Vue app. And run everything on a DO droplet.

I'm still in the layout phase. If you like, I'll keep you posted once I start building the architecture.

Mostafa Said • Apr 18 '22

I'm still trying to discover appwrite and docker more as I never worked with either of them before. I have couple of ideas on mind but I'm just in the phase of doubting my ideas :D When I get to the phase where I get it together and start building, your information will be a great help.