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Congrats to the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Winners!

Jess Lee on July 02, 2026

We are so excited to finally announce the winners of the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge, our celebration of finishing what you started by revivi...
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Hemapriya Kanagala •
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Divyesh •

Thank you, Hemapriya! Means a lot!!! ☺️

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Omar Afifi •

Thanks, Hema! Much appreciated! πŸŽ‰

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @hemapriya_kanagala !!!☺️

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Daniel Balcarek •

Thank you, Hemapriya! 😊

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Sylwia Laskowska •
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Daniel Balcarek • • Edited

Thank you, Sylwia!πŸ™Œ

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Ishant gupta •

Thank you!! ❀️❀️

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @sylwia-lask !!!☺️

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Veejayant •

Huge congratulations to @lehuygiang28, @gramli, @ishantgupta, @dj29, @nupoorshetye, @divyesh5981, @liztacular, @botoom, @anuththara2007w, and @omarafifi! Your wins are incredibly well-deserved. Outstanding work, everyone! πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @vivid162veejayant !!!☺️

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Divyesh •

Thank you! Really appreciate it. Congratulations to everyone as well!!

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Elizabeth Stein •

Thank you! Congrats to all!!

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Omar Afifi •

Thank you, Veejayant! Appreciate it. πŸ™Œ

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Saptarshi Sarkar •

Congratulations @lehuygiang28 @gramli @ishantgupta @dj29 @nupoorshetye @divyesh5981 @liztacular @botoom @anuththara2007w and @omarafifi πŸ₯³πŸŽ‰! All your stories are truly commendable πŸ˜€

My article on rebuilding K8sAttackMap didn’t make the final cut, but I’m glad I shared the journey from hackathon wreckage to a production‑ready Kubernetes attack‑path visualizer. The challenge helped me polish the project and improve the docs, and the community feedback has been invaluable. Thanks to DEV and GitHub for hosting, and to everyone who read, commented, or starred the repo. It’s open source, so if you’re curious about Kubernetes security tools, check it out; contributions welcome!

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Mark jons • • Edited

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @saptarshisarkar !!!☺️

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Ishant gupta •

Thank you!! ❀️❀️

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π“π‘πž π‹πšπ³π² 𝐆𝐒𝐫π₯ •

Congratulations guys πŸŽŠπŸŽ‰β€οΈ
@lehuygiang28, @gramli, @ishantgupta, @dj29, @nupoorshetye, @divyesh5981, @liztacular, @botoom, @anuththara2007w, @omarafifi

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Omar Afifi •

Thanks a lotπŸ™Œ

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Divyesh •

Thank you! Really appreciate it. ☺️

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much!!!☺️

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Daniel Balcarek •

Thank you! 😊

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Tejas Rawool •
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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @tejasrawool186 !!!☺️

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Daniel Balcarek •

Thank you!

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @moulikai !!!☺️

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Daniel Balcarek • • Edited

Thank you!

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you so much! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Ishant gupta •

Thank you! And congrats to you too β€” well deserved!!

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Daniel Balcarek •

Okay… I am honestly shocked. I did not expect this at all.

Are you telling me that my nostalgic game from 2014, which won a pair of stickers in the Czech dev community back then, has now won again in the DEV community? 🀯

That is amazing and unbelievable! I am honored to win alongside so many great submissions.

Thank you to the DEV Team for bringing us these amazing challenges. I am really happy to be part of such a great community. πŸ™Œ

And congrats to all the winners!

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Web Developer Hyper •

Wow! You won again! πŸŽ‰ Your skills and creativity are unbelievable. Congratulations! 🎊

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Daniel Balcarek •

Thank you!πŸ™Œβ€οΈ

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Elmar Chavez •

Congrats to all winners!

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank You !

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Ishant gupta •

Thank you!!❀️❀️

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Dhruv Jani •

Thrilled to see ShelfTalk in the winners list! This one meant a lot β€” it started as a semester 5 project that never got finished, and this challenge was the push I needed to actually revive it, migrate it properly, and ship it. Huge thanks to the DEV team and GitHub for running this. Onto the next build! πŸš€

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Omar Afifi •

Honestly still processing this! 🀯 Seeing Daphq make the top 10 alongside such an impressive lineup is incredible. Pushing that bare-metal performance was a massive grind, and it feels awesome to see it recognized.

Huge congrats to everyone who participatedβ€”the comeback stories in this thread are pure gold.

Huge thanks to the DEV and GitHub teams for organizing this! πŸ’œ

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Anuththara Wickramasekara •

Thank you ! πŸ˜ŠπŸŽ‰

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Ishant gupta •

Thank you!!❀️❀️

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LΓͺ Huy Giang •

I can finally breathe! πŸ˜‚ So incredibly happy and emotional to see my project here. Amazing job everyone, congratulations to all the winners! πŸ™ŒπŸ†

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Nupoor Shetye •

Still can't believe it! 🀯

CodeSynth began as a hackathon experiment years ago, and revisiting it for this challenge let me transform it into something I had always envisioned. Winning feels like a full-circle moment, and I'm incredibly grateful.

Thank you to GitHub and the DEV team for organizing such an amazing challenge, and congrats to all the other winners! πŸŽ‰πŸš€

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Fayaz •

Congrats to the winners! πŸ₯³

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Omar Afifi •

Thanks, Fayaz! πŸ₯³

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @fm !!!☺️

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Sarvar Nadaf •

congratulation everyone. Great work!

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Ishant gupta •

Wait, actually made the list....Thanks a ton to the DEV team and GitHub for putting this together. Congrats to everyone else too πŸ™Œ

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Bello Bambo •

congratulations guy πŸ‘πŸ½

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Dan •

Congratulation to all the Winner's of the GitHub Copilot Challenge !!!!πŸ‘

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Omar Afifi •

Thank you, DanπŸŽ‰

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Dhruv Jani •

Thank you so much, @dan52242644dan !!!☺️

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Ishant gupta •

Thank you❀️❀️

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neitherGalax •

Congrats to all. Really inspiring.

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Total InfoHub •

Huge congratulations to all the winners! Bringing abandoned side projects back to life is one of the hardest things to do, and this challenge was a brilliant way to push everyone forward. Well deserved!

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Orioha Chikezirim •

Congratulations to all winners πŸ†

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Omar Afifi •

Thank you! πŸŽ‰

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Earl Grey •

Wonderful projects. Congrats to all the winners!!

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Pranay Mokal •

you did'nt even seen projects , blog post visited by 2 people for 15 second read time on june 18, so this makes it clear how evaluation happened. with no objection congratulation for all winners . but i did not find any proof of evaluation .

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Hey Pranay. It could be the case where they had to download the articles and reviewing them from there due to biases such as engagements for example. It gives a fair assessment without having to see the engagement that could skewed the results.

Back then when we have volunteer judges, we were able to go on each articles on dev.to and go from there. Due to the MLH acquisition, I would assume their methods would be different in a way they are not looking at dev.to.

The engagements only factors in if there are two articles that are "tied". If they can't determine between the two, I would assume they go on dev.to and look from there.

Hope this makes sense

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Pranay Mokal •

I am new to this community I joined recently 22nd may 2026 so i was not aware about this i thought they will go by each article which isn’t 15 seconds read , thanks for clearing my doubts , it make sense. My project was not even fitting in that criteria or even close to criteria but due to use of GitHub copilot i just registered. But then i just out of curiosity looked for articles view and raised this question.

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Sounds good! Yea if it was last year, makes sense since volunteer judge used to be a thing. Hopefully in the future they get everything set up for volunteer judges.

Do let us know if anything else :)

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Dan •

Will participants receive a completion badge if the prompt was properly submitted?😊

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FOKRUL ISLAM •

wow

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Tahami AK SERVICES •

JazakAllah its great Omar Afifi

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kingai •

This resonates. We built KING AI around the idea that an intelligent system should reflect on its own decisions daily. The improvement curve is steep when you add that feedback loop.