Jess Lee

for The DEV Team

Posted on Mar 19

Congrats to the Winners of Our First DEV Weekend Challenge!

#ai #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #webdev

It's time!! We are thrilled to announce the winners of our first DEV Weekend Challenge.

The prompt was simple but open-ended: build something for a community you're a part of or care about. What we got back was anything but simple. In just a weekend, participants shipped real, functional apps rooted in genuine personal experience — transit tools, civic platforms, fitness apps, local marketplaces, and more.

Choosing three winners from the submissions we received was genuinely difficult, and we're proud of every participant who shipped something this weekend.

Without further ado, our winners! 🎉

Congratulations To…

TerraRun

@manjunathpatil built TerraRun for the running community around a simple question: once you finish a run, what do you actually own? Run a closed loop, and the enclosed area fills in with your color on a shared public map. That's your territory. Other runners can claim it back. The more you hold, the higher you rank — "Strava meets king-of-the-hill."

TerraRun — A Territory Capture Running App Where Every Loop You Run Becomes Your Turf

Manjunath Patil ・ Mar 2

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #showdev

UTMACH Rides

@sherman95 built UTMACH Rides, a mobile-first PWA for the 14,000+ students at Universidad Técnica de Machala in Ecuador. Only verified @utmachala.edu.ec emails get in, an important safety feature for this community of students. The app handles the full coordination flow: publishing rides, requesting seats, verifying passengers via WhatsApp, and rating each other after the trip.

UTMACH Rides -- I Built a Carpooling App So My Classmates Stop Paying $3 for a 10-Minute Ride

Ronald Alejandro Azuero Maldonado ・ Feb 28

#showdev #devchallenge #weekendchallenge #webdev

BagichaLink

@soham0047 built BagichaLink (bagicha means "garden" in Hindi/Urdu) for the plant swap community — the "I propagated too many pothos again" crowd. Scan any plant to get an AI identification with care tips tuned to your local weather, post it as Available or Wanted, find AI-matched swap partners nearby, and chat directly to arrange the handoff.

How I built an AI-powered plant swap community app in a weekend

Soham ・ Mar 1

#devchallenge #weekendchallenge #showdev #ai

Prizes

Each of our three winners will receive:

$300 USD
An exclusive DEV Badge
A DEV++ Membership

All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

What's Next?

Join the Notion MCP Challenge happening now through March, 29!

Join the Notion MCP Challenge: $1,500 in Prizes!

Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Mar 4

#notionchallenge #devchallenge #mcp #ai

Also, don't miss your chance to enter the 2026 WeCoded Challenge, in our writing category "Echoes of Experience" or the brand new "Frontend Art" prompt!

Join the 2026 WeCoded Challenge and Celebrate Underrepresented Voices in Tech Through Writing & Frontend Art 🎨!

Jess Lee for The DEV Team ・ Mar 6

#devchallenge #wecoded #frontend #career

We hope this first Weekend Challenge showed that great things can ship in 48 hours when you're building for something real.

Thank you to everyone who participated. 💚

Top comments (10)

Ronald Alejandro Azuero Maldonado • Mar 19

Thank you so much for the recognition! 🎉
I'm really happy that UTMACH Rides could represent my university community and help solve a small but real problem for students.

This was a fun challenge to build in a weekend, and I appreciate the opportunity to share it here with everyone on DEV.

👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾 • Mar 19

Congrats Everyone!!!

Ben Halpern The DEV Team • Mar 19

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👾 FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ 👾 • Mar 19

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Giorgi Kobaidze • Mar 19

Congrats to the winners. Great job!👏

Soham • Mar 19

Amazing to see BagichaLink featured here.😃
And building this project in a weekend was both challenging and fun, and I’m really grateful for the chance to share it with the amazing DEV Community.