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Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine Winners!

Jem on November 13, 2026

The results are in for the final week of our Hacktoberfest DEV Challenges! For Ghost in the Machine, we asked you to build something spooky, or som...

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Jem The DEV Team • Nov 13

Congratulations to our Overall winner, @mzee04! 🏆

And a huge congrats to our featured category winners: @srgcy (Render), @malbolged (TabPFN), @derbyps (Tinker), @abhinavkrishna3211 (Arduino), @tanmaygajjar26 (DigitalOcean) and @tushar_shah (Gemma)! 🎉

Thank you all for closing out Hacktoberfest with such haunting builds. 🪦

Toyyib Olamilekan • Nov 13

Thank you so much, Jem and the DEV team! Writing that diary experiment was one of the most fun builds I've done. Huge congrats to @srgcy, @malbolged, @derbyps, @abhinavkrishna3211, @tanmaygajjar26 and @tushar_shah, and I'm off to read all your entries now! 👻

tushar shah • Nov 13

Thanks and cheers to all the folks

Anamul Hoque • Nov 13

Congratulations to all the winners! 🎉

Huge congrats to @mzee04 for the Overall win, and to every featured and partner category winner. The range this week was wonderful, from a tiny AI keeping a diary to ghost stories mapped across Ireland.

Thank you to the DEV Team and all the partners for hosting such a creative month. This was my first Hacktoberfest challenge series, and building Ghost Tales taught me a lot about open-source AI. I'm off to read the winning entries and learn from them.

See you in the next challenge! 👻

Toyyib Olamilekan • Nov 13

Thanks man! I appreciate it!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ • Nov 13

Congrats to the final week of HacktoberFest!

Good work all of you!

Hanzla Baig • Nov 13

Congrats @mzee04, @srgcy, @malbolged, @derbyps, @abhinavkrishna3211, @tanmaygajjar26 and @tushar_shah! Well deserved, everyone! 🎉❤️

tushar shah • Nov 13

Thanks and cheers to rest all

nyaomaru • Nov 13

Congrats to all the winners!! 😸🎉

Muhammad Murtuza Hussain • Nov 13

Congratulations all, great run!

Jem The DEV Team • Nov 13

Congrats to our partner category winners! 🎉👻

@bin4yi (Auth0 for AI Agents), @vrranjith (Backboard), @ronaksarda (Browserbase), @finallyjay (ElevenLabs), @thy_orion (Entire), @emarc99 (GitHub Copilot) and @hongpengtan0max (Mastra), amazing work!

Ronak sarda • Nov 13

Thank you soo very much team 🫡🫡🫡

Aroso Emmanuel • Nov 13

Thanks to the awesome DEV team for hosting the fest and challenges!

Jem The DEV Team • Nov 13

More partner category winners to celebrate! 🎃🌼

@carlosjcastrog (MongoDB Atlas), @bladeharper_ec7070d6e28be (Sentry Agent Tracing), @kakeroth (SerpApi), @mohamedaminehamdi (Temporal), @workstationritalks (Tiger Data), @kourtneylee1611 (Ultramarine) and @samarth_kumble_a91ad88634 (.tech Domain), congratulations!

Carlos José Castro Galante • Nov 13

Thank you so much, Jem, and thanks to the whole DEV team! Linkmortem was built in five intense days, and seeing it recognized for MongoDB Atlas means a lot to me. Congrats to all the other winners! 🎃🙌

Hanzla Baig • Nov 13

Congrats @bin4yi, @vrranjith, @ronaksarda, @finallyjay, @thy_orion, @emarc99, @hongpengtan0max, @carlosjcastrog, @bladeharper_ec7070d6e28be and @kakeroth! 🎉❤️

Fayaz • Nov 13

Congrats all the winners 🏆
and best wishes to all those who participated 🥰

Ronak sarda • Nov 13

Congratulations to all the winners 🎊

Hanzla Baig • Nov 13

Congrats @mohamedaminehamdi, @workstationritalks, @kourtneylee1611 and @samarth_kumble_a91ad88634! 🎉❤️

Earl Grey • Nov 13

Wow, on these entries! So creative. I appreciate all of the talented builders here. They're inspiring. Contracts to all of the winners @mzee04, @srgcy, @malbolged, @derbyps, @abhinavkrishna3211, @tanmaygajjar26 and @tushar_shah !