We are thrilled to announce our next partnered challenge with Wix Studio!
Running through October 27, Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition invites you to leverage the power of Wix Studio to build your dream community platform. This challenge is an opportunity to showcase your JavaScript skills while leveraging the Wix Studio low-code environment to create a meaningful project for your portfolio.
Ania Kubów (@ania_kubow) will be returning as our guest judge. With her extensive experience as a software developer, educator, and popular YouTuber, Ania brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Showcase your work to one of the software’s most respected voices!
There will be one prompt for this challenge, with one lucky and talented winner.
Our Prompt
For this challenge, your mission is to build your dream community platform on Wix Studio - a digital space that enables groups of people with shared interests, goals, or characteristics to interact, collaborate, and engage with each other online.
With Wix Studio, you can rapidly build a tailored platform to meet your community’s exact needs by leveraging Wix Apps and their associated Velo APIs. Launching a community app also requires considering many factors including scalability, reliability, performance, and security, so we are excited for you to experience Wix Studio's built-in infrastructure and adaptability!
Judging and Prizes
We’ll be selecting one winner for this challenge to take home the entire prize. Our winner will receive:
- $3,000 USD
- 6-month DEV++ membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Community and Resources
We encourage everyone who's curious about the challenge to join the Wix Studio Community on Discord and hop into their #dev-challenges channel. This will be the place to ask for technical help and meet community members building with Wix.
Tips and Tricks
Here are some ideas and resources to help you get started:
Common Features: Every community platform is different but some features you may want to consider include user profiles, discussion boards, messaging, events, and content sharing capabilities. You are not limited to, or required, to implement all these features.
Examples of Shared Interests: If no particular community stands out to you personally, here are some examples of interest groups you could build for: fashion, technology, health, food, sports, music, gaming, art, travel, literature, entrepreneurship, and career. We encourage you to get as broad or as niche as your desire calls!
Utilizing Wix Studio’s Visual Design Templates: Building on top of visual design templates is allowed for this challenge, and is one of the key ways you can leverage Wix’s ecosystem to improve your productivity.
Wix AI Assistant: The Wix IDE offers a powerful AI assistant that you can leverage to improve your workflow and productivity.
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Additional Resources: To get started with building, check out the resources available on Wix Studio:
Important Dates
- October 16: Wix Studio Community Platform Challenge begins!
- October 27: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
- October 29: Winners Announced
We're excited to see the community platforms you create! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below. Good luck and happy coding!
Top comments (33)
Woohoo!
I would be glad to join your team.
Pretty dumb, but, my idea is to build a community platform designed for an alien race that communicates through visual patterns, harmonics, and lightwaves. This space fosters collaboration between extraterrestrial beings from different star systems, with each species bringing unique knowledge about their home planet, technology, and culture.
Sounds cool!
I have submitted mine. 😁
Well this seems cool. Have some community ideas and this is a good way to start building it..
Onward!!!
Good luck!
I really like Wix Studio, and it was in my plans to learn Velo! But still hasn't been six months since my last challenge, so I think I can't participate in this one 🥲... but Wix Studio is a tool that you must keep an eye on, it has true potential and amazing features.
If you don't know where to start with Wix Studio, you should join the waitlist for their next crash course: Here
I did took that course and it was super easy and I had fun, you can see the result here
@schemetastic are you seeing somewhere about a 6 month limit to participating in challenges?
Hey there! After winning a challenge, isn't necessary that 6 months has passed to qualify to enter another challenge? 🤔
The one I did was the Netlify, winner announced on May 😬
Nope! There are no time constraints here, you are welcome (and encouraged) to participate in as many challenges as you'd like!
I think I have read it in the Official Challenges and Hackathon Rules in the Eligibility section 🤔. But you know, it was in my plans to learn Velo and I already had some project ideas in my mind, I might make an entry just for fun even if I can't win. One way or another, I'll be looking to future challenges. 😉
@schemetastic we just updated that page to remove the time limitation -- feel free to participate!
Okay, I'm all in! 💪
Did it, here is my entry: Link here
Don't think wrong, I'm sending it to you here because I don't see it in the entries section, so I just wanted to make sure that I'm participating 🤔
Hey there! Part of the rules indicate that “Submissions must include original code and should not contain custom elements or iFrames.”. What does it mean that it can't contain custom elements? Like React components and HTML components?
I believe Wix Studio gives you the capacity to do that, but I'm guessign it refers to that. 🤔
Hey, this is section is speaking about Custom Elements and standard iFrames.
While Wix Studio has the capacity to do both, we are prohibiting its usage as we would like participants to explore our native Velo APIs which are directly inaccessible from these constructs.
Thanks! Very helpful! 👌
Can the submission be a satire? For example, could it focus on a community centered around a fictional video game that doesn't exist, or a made-up sport that only exists in an alternate reality? Or maybe about a community of verified™ time travelers or people who have "moonwalked" on the moon?
Yes it can! Love the creativity.
The "Steps to Creating a Wix Studio Site For New Users (VERY IMPORTANT)" doesnt'make sense.
You arrive at step 4 and you don't know where to go.
There's no option "Select "For a client, as a freelancer or an agency" and click continue"
From the Wix AI chatbox itself:
_It seems like the steps you mentioned are **not aligning **with the current process on the Wix site. To create a new site in Wix Studio, follow these steps:
Hey @claraq, thanks so much for bringing this to our attention. We have updated the instructions!
For requirements above, is it OK to use only Wix apps but not calling the associated APIs ? Also for the Velo APIs, any API under $w is fine ? Or some specific APIs are needed ?
Wow
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