In December, we announced a new challenge on DEV, in partnership with our friends at DigitalOcean: the App Platform Hackathon.
Our intrepid Hackathon participants were challenged to build brand new apps using DigitalOcean’s App Platform. DigitalOcean offered them credits in order to leverage their professional tool for free. Submissions were to be filed in one of four categories: Personal Site/Portfolio, Program for the People, Built for Business, and last but certainly not least, Random Roulette.
The process of picking just one grand prize winner for each category and 10 total runners-up was difficult, to say the least. But somehow, the judging panels at DEV and DigitalOcean managed to narrow in on some truly standout projects. We’re thrilled to share them with you today!
So, without further ado, let's meet the winners of the DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon on DEV!
Personal Site/Portfolio: @abhinavchawla13
Program for the People: @jcsmileyjr
Built for Business: @guild
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Random Roulette: @dawntraoz
All Grand Prize Winners will receive:
- $2,000 USD gift card or equivalent 🤑
- $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop 😎
- DigitalOcean Swag Pack 🎁
- DEV Sticker Pack ✨
- DEV “App Platform Hackathon” grand prize profile badge 🏆
- A Zoom meet-and-greet with DigitalOcean’s CEO, Yancey Spruill 👋
And, our Top 10 Runners-Up, in random order!
All runners-up will receive:
- $200 USD gift card or equivalent 💰
- $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🌈
- DigitalOcean Swag Pack 🎩
- DEV Sticker Pack 💻
- DEV “App Platform Hackathon” runner-up profile badge 🌟
Participants
All participants with a valid project will receive a DEV Sticker Pack and an “App Platform Hackathon” participant profile badge. 🎉
To everyone who submitted a project for this hackathon, you should be super proud of yourselves. In the process of building your app, you’ve contributed to the DigitalOcean App Platform library and gained new experience with a professional tool.
The DigitalOcean team will follow up with each winner via email about their prizes, and the DEV team will do the same within two weeks.
Great work, everyone! We hope you had a blast participating in this challenge. ❤️
Top comments (33)
BIG congrats to our...
Grand Prize Winners:
Runners-Up
And OF COURSE our incredible participants. These are truly some amazing projects. You should all be super proud ❤️
Whaaat? I can't believe it... I'm freaking out 😱
Congratulations to all of you and especially to those of you who have participated, you have done incredible things and I have learned a lot from the projects you have developed 🎉
I don't know what else I can say... thank you very much and it is an honour 😳!
DEV and DigitalOcean are awesome and give a lot to the community, I hope to follow your example and help a lot of people 💜
congratulations :)
Congrats!
Congrats to all winners 🥳🥳. Even though the hackathon ended, if you’re into anime, do give a look to animeccha.com/home which I built for this hackathon.
Building Animeccha - Epilogue
Lakshya Thakur ・ Dec 24 '20 ・ 2 min read
Big thanks to Dev and DigitalOcean Teams for hosting the hackathon.😇
This was such a wonderful experience as I got a chance to execute my idea, try and learn new things!
It was amazing seeing devs coming all together to share their knowledge and build awesome products. It was a great learning experience.
Kudos to everyone who participated!❤️
Wait what? I won? 😲
I'm lacking words to explain how much happy I'm right now! :D
It was an amazing experience, and not to mention this is my 1st hackathon on the #DEV Community. I got to learn so many things while we (I along with my teammate) were working on this. Explored so many new ideas on this platform!
In a nutshell, it was a great learning experience & I'm looking forward to participating more! :)
Congratulations to everyone who participated!
Thanks to DigitalOcean & the entire DEV Team for organizing this Hackathon :D ❤️
Congrats!!!
Thanks Ben! 😊
Thank you so much everyone for all the support to my project! Of course, a special thanks to DigitalOcean and DEV for hosting the challenge, and always keeping the community engaged.
Feel free to reach out to me if you want to discuss the project, provide feedback, collaborate, or even just say hi! Lastly, great job everyone who participaed, that's an awesome list of projects 😁
Thank you Dev and Digital Ocean. This was very exciting, and I got to learn a lot working on this project.
I don't know if it is possible, but I would love to get feedback from the judges on how to improve the application.
Congratulations to the winners and runner-ups! These projects look great 😊
...Time to explore how they did some of this stuff 😋
Congrats~~~ You're awesome...
Congratulations everyone! 🥳
It has been an awesome experience! Thank you DEV and DigitalOcean! 🙌