Announcing: The Grant For The Web x DEV Hackathon Winners!

Last month, we announced the Grant For The Web x DEV Community hackathon.

Grant for the Web (GftW) is a collaboration between Mozilla, Creative Commons, and Coil. They are working towards a healthier internet, using open standards to give people more independence and control over how they distribute and monetize content. This effort is deeply aligned with our values at DEV (we're even Web Monetized now!) and thus the joint hackathon was born.

We sought projects across three categories: Foundational Technology, Creative Catalyst, and Exciting Experiments. More about those categories in the post from last month.

It was incredibly difficult to pick just a handful of winning entries with so many amazing projects to choose from. But after a huge amount of consideration from the DEV and GftW teams, we're thrilled to share the winning Web Monetization projects!

We'll be following up with each winner about their prizes soon, and all DEV prizes will be emailed to you within the next two weeks.

Now, please meet the grand prize winners and runners up — and their projects!

Foundational Technology Winner: @mazentouati

Monetize.js: Event-driven library to manage and simulate Web Monetization

Mazen Touati ・ May 21 '20

#gftwhackathon #showdev #webdev #opensource

Creative Catalyst Winner: @kewbish

Revshare.js - a Revshare Web Component

Emilie Ma ・ May 31 '20

Exciting Experiments Winner: @projectescape

Web Monetization for NPM packages!!

Aniket ・ Jun 5 '20

#gftwhackathon #node #webdev #showdev

The Awesome Runners Up

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🐶 Akita: Get Involved in Web Monetization With or Without the Price Tag

Sharon for esse-dev ・ Jun 15 '20

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #showdev

COVID-19 Tracker web-monetized with News from WHO API 🎉🚀

krishna kakade ・ Jun 5 '20

#gftwhackathon #react #showdev #webmonetization

✨ Announcing Open Monetization Wallet - my GFTW Hackathon project

Kristian Freeman for Bytesized Code ・ May 21 '20

#gftwhackathon #showdev

Web Components for the Web Monetization API

Phil Nash ・ May 18 '20

#gftwhackathon #webdev #webmonetization #opensource

Monetize your Electron App 💰

Jasmin Virdi ・ Jun 1 '20

#gftwhackathon #electron #webmonetization #showdev

Rack Middleware for the Web Monetization API

Ben Greenberg ・ May 14 '20

#gftwhackathon #ruby

Discover content creators using monetized-rss

Emma Goto 🍙 ・ May 28 '20

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #showdev

Live Art - Showing Support for Artists Through Web Monetization

Katie Raby ・ Jun 5 '20

#gftwhackathon #webmonetization #showdev #react

Python...in the browser!? 🤯 : A Web Monetization x Web Assembly Experiment

Ari 🪐 ・ May 20 '20

#gftwhackathon #python #webassembly #datascience

Prizes to Be Awarded

Each Grand Prize Winner Is Receiving:

• $2,000 USD gift card or equivalent 💸
• $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🎁
• DEV “Grant For The Web Hackathon” winner badge 🏆

Each Runner-Up Is Receiving:

• $400 USD gift card or equivalent 💸
• $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🎁
• DEV “Grant For The Web Hackathon” runner-up badge 👏

Participants (whose projects meet contest criteria) Are Receiving:

• $50 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🎁
• DEV “Grant For The Web Hackathon” participation badge 💪

We will reach out to winners within the next couple of weeks to award prizes by contacting the email address associated with their DEV profile.

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Our sincerest thanks again to everyone who participated in the hackathon, and for GftW, Mozilla, Creative Commons, and Coil. You're all making the internet a better place.

Comments

[kenabella]

Congratulations to all the winners!!

[Elango Sundar]

Congrats to all winners, runners up, and participants :)

[rhymes]

Congratulations!!

[krishna kakade]

thank you rhymes

[Eka]

Congrats to all winners, runners up, and participants!!

I was aware I did not have enough time or the chops to build something original or meaningful enough to win but I participated anyway and it was fun! Learned & shipped new things I would not have known & built otherwise. 🙌🏽

[krishna kakade]

Congratulations to all. we did it have a good day😊🤗🎉🐱‍👤

[Jasmin Virdi]

A big shout-out to all the participants. It was a great learning experience and it feels really amazing after making a contribution. Thanks a lot to the team for bringing such lovely opportunities ❤️

Looking forward to more hackathons 😁

[spiritupbro]

ah damn im not win but cool hackathon though learning react and web monetization along the way congrats for the winners

[Emma Goto 🍙]

Hey - you can have my runners up voucher if you want! Unfortunately the way the DEV store is set up the voucher wont cover the shipping cost though so you'd have to pay that yourself.

[Emma Goto 🍙]

No worries! I actually recently received another voucher so I've got enough DEV merch for the moment 😆. I'll send you a message once I get it.

[Hemant Joshi]

Thanks alot Emma✨;

Lol,. I am really excited to get my first every merch and beacuse of you🔧;

And I can't express my feeling right now🦄;

[Hemant Joshi]

Wow you are Lucky to get the merch😂😂

[Hemant Joshi]

Yes, I am Lucky enough🦄;

This would be my first every Developer merch!

And I am really excited, I prepared my cart too.😂😼

[Hemant Joshi]

Nice; good luck with merchandise 👍'

Would love to see what you got and do make a post!

[Tim Downey]

Congratulations all! Well deserved!!

I'm personally just hoping my submission was good enough to get that sweet, sweet participation badge. 🙏

[Matt Hamilton]

Just a quick plug... if you enjoyed hacking on ideas around Web Monetization, you might be interested in the hackathon just starting today around PayID, which is in the same sort of area of making payments easier.

payid.devpost.com/

Some background info on PayID in a post I did recently:

Static Serving PayID Addresses

Matt Hamilton ・ Jun 18 ・ 3 min read

#payid #xrp #bitcoin #ilp