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 β and their projects!
Foundational Technology Winner: @mazentouati
Monetize.js: Event-driven library to manage and simulate Web Monetization
Mazen Touati γ» May 21 '20
Creative Catalyst Winner: @kewbish
Exciting Experiments Winner: @projectescape
The Awesome Runners Up
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πΆ Akita: Get Involved in Web Monetization With or Without the Price Tag
Sharon for esse-dev γ» Jun 15 '20
COVID-19 Tracker web-monetized with News from WHO API ππ
krishna kakade γ» Jun 5 '20
β¨ Announcing Open Monetization Wallet - my GFTW Hackathon project
Kristian Freeman for Bytesized Code γ» May 21 '20
Web Components for the Web Monetization API
Phil Nash γ» May 18 '20
Monetize your Electron App π°
Jasmin Virdi γ» Jun 1 '20
Discover content creators using monetized-rss
Emma Goto π γ» May 28 '20
Live Art - Showing Support for Artists Through Web Monetization
Katie Raby γ» Jun 5 '20
Python...in the browser!? π€― : A Web Monetization x Web Assembly Experiment
Ari πͺ γ» May 20 '20
Prizes to Be Awarded
Each Grand Prize Winner Is Receiving:
- $2,000 USD gift card or equivalent πΈ
- $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop π
- DEV βGrant For The Web Hackathonβ winner badge π
Each Runner-Up Is Receiving:
- $400 USD gift card or equivalent πΈ
- $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop π
- DEV βGrant For The Web Hackathonβ runner-up badge π
Participants (whose projects meet contest criteria) Are Receiving:
- $50 USD credit to the DEV Shop π
- DEV βGrant For The Web Hackathonβ participation badge πͺ
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.
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.
Oldest comments (38)
Congratulations everyone π it was a great experience experimenting with this technology. Hats off for the runners up for their great projects π¦
Congrats everyone! π₯
Congratulations all! So pleased to have been beaten by such great projects! There really are some great ideas there :)
Holy crap - I can't believe it! Congrats everyone π super cool projects!
Loved working with Web Monetization <3
Congratulations to all π, All the best.
lots of amazing projects, happy to be listed here! thanks @ben and team :)
grats all π
Congrats! Glad to see you scored a prize, you deserved it!
Thank you! π
Thank a lot for your help!
One of the reasons I was able to build this project was your puppeteer recommendation
Congratulations! You deserve it.
To all the winners! Congratulations!!
Runners up! Congratulations... And everybody who participated and coordinated. Hands raised and clapping.... ππππ
BIG congrats to all!
Grand Prize Winners: @mazentouati , @kewbish , @projectescape
Runner-Up Winners: @wobsoriano , @sharon , @krishnakakade , @signalnerve , @philnash , @jasmin , @benhayehudi , @emma , @katieraby , @ari_hacks
Echoing Ben that you are all making the internet a better place for all kinds of creators! Thank you so much for your participation and creativity. We'll work on getting these prizes out π
Wow!! Cannot believe it, so excited. A massive congratulations to all the winners and runners up, so many fantastic projects and so proud to be among them. π
So exciting that @elliot and I received a Runner-up award for our project Akita π Thank you for this opportunity - we've learned so much!
Huge congrats to all the winners and runners up, lots of super interesting projects from everyone π Awesome to see all the thought and time put into building up Web Monetization!
Yeah congrats to all team who participated and winners also thanks to Hally for working this project and congratulations to @katieraby @wobsoriano
Delighted to have picked up a runner-up prize!
Congratulations to the winners, other runners-up and everyone who built something!
What a thrill this morning to wake up and see I've made it to a runner-up state! Thank you for the opportunity to learn more about web monetization and to think about tooling around it for backend developers. I went from not hearing about it before this to knowing a bit more as a result! :)
Congrats to the winners and all the runners-up!
Congratulations all!! ππ And thanks a lot, I still can't beleive it