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Congrats to the "New Year, New You" Portfolio Challenge Winners and Runner-Ups!

Jess Lee on February 19, 2026

The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI. It was incredibly...
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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Incredible submissions

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾

Congratulations to everyone making on the list! Great work ya'll!

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Pedro Monteiro

I am beyond happy to be a runner-up! Honestly, I’m speechless and don't even know what to write. A huge thank you to the judges and congrats to all the winners! They truly deserve it, their portfolios are incredibly complete and wonderful.

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Dinesh Dawonauth

Really honoured to be part of the runner ups! Congrats to all the winners and runner ups

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Abdulsalaam Noibi

Congratulations to everyone who participated ☺️

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Swift The DEV Team

Woah! These are genuinely awesome. Loving the Windows 98 one 🤣

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Matthew Hou

Congrats to all the winners! I looked through a few of the portfolios and the thing that stands out most is clarity — every winner made it obvious within 3 seconds what they do and what they've built.

That's honestly the hardest part of building a portfolio. The tech is easy. Making it clear and memorable is the real challenge.

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Vivian Jair

The submissions were truly AMAZING - huge kudos to the winners and everyone who participated!

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Tala Amm

Congrats to all winners 🏆 🎉

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Inna Campo

Congrats to all the winners and runner ups!! Excellent submissions!! And to the rest of us - what a fantastic way to get a new portfolio.

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L. Cordero

Congratulations to all the winners!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Giving an extra ping to our runner-ups who may not have received a notification from the announcement: @diego_martinezl_933e935, @harsh_kumar_0904, @dineshgit17, @danqzq, @pedacos - well done!

We'll be in touch soon with next steps.

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Aravind d

@jess Why im not received the completion badge?

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Samet UCA

Are you kidding me? Much better projects aren’t even listed here. Who are the judges? Did you hand out the awards to your own cousins?

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Varshith V Hegde

Congratulations to all the Winners!!! Awesome Portfolios.

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Hoang Manh Cam

Thank you so much to the judges and the @dev.to community! Super honored to be one of the winners of the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge. Congrats to all other winners & participants!

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

Congratulations to everyone!!! Lovely portfolios 🤩🤩

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Vicente G. Reyes

Congratulations!!

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Enrique Uribe

Amazing work everyone! Thank you to the DEV team and everyone involved for making this such a fun and successful challenge!

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Lokesh

Congratulations bruh @uribejr

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Enrique Uribe

Thank you bruh! Big fan of yours too. I'll see you in future challenges!

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Aryan Choudhary

Congratulations to everyone on the list! Great work guys!!! (^^ゞ

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ANIRUDDHA ADAK • Edited

Congratulations to all

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Larissa Cristina

Wow! Had an amazing time in the challenge! Thanks for all the kind words and support, can’t wait for the next one! 👀 <3

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Aravind d

Congrats to everyone 👏

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Guilherme Zaia

300 submissions. 3 winners. All retro-themed. Curious: what's the technical criteria here—accessibility depth, AI implementation quality, or pure novelty? Because 'fun UI' is easy. Building a WCAG AA-compliant game engine or a context-aware agent that doesn't hallucinate? That's actual engineering.

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Samet UCA

The hackathon results are nothing short of disappointing. I’ve seen projects from friends and other participants that were far more creative, technically solid, and deserving of recognition. Yet those were ignored, while shallow and unimpressive projects ended up receiving awards. This makes it clear that spending more time on this site is a waste—it doesn’t value genuine effort or innovation. If hackathons are to have any credibility, participation should move to different platforms where projects are judged fairly and talent is actually recognized. Right now, all I see here is mediocrity being rewarded, and that’s not worth anyone’s time

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Samuel Chimmy-Jadeofwallstreet

Looks like Portfolios with real AI integration were greatly ignored.. My portfolio wasn't reviewed. I watched my log all day to see if my portfolio would be interacted with nothing.

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Diego Martinez L. • Edited

It's a great honor to have been among the finalists, congratulations to the winners & runner-ups!

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Archit Bhargava

Congrats to the winners

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Ikechukwu Elendu

Congratulations to all the winners and runner ups

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Noel Dario Andres

Congrats!

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Andreyana Michael

Well done to everyone involved! ☺️

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Rubasri Srikanthan

Congratulations to all Winners and Runners!!

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Harsh Kumar

I’m truly honored to be among the runner-ups. Congratulations to all the winners and fellow runner-ups!

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Luke Ponga

Congratulations 🎉 good work everyone 👏

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abigail armijo

Congratulations to the winners

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Dabobroto Sarkar

Incredible portfolios and well deserved. Congratulations to all the winners and runners up!

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Samet UCA

Are you kidding me? Much better projects aren’t even listed here. Who are the judges? Did you hand out the awards to your own cousins?

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Smitter

Congratulations to all winners. Great submissions indeed

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Katiuce Odilon

Congratulations to everyone

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Athreya aka Maneshwar

Congrats everyone, awesome submissions!!

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Enock Opilo

Congratulations to all winners and runners up for the good amazing work.