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DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge Presented by Mux: Pitch Your Projects! $3,000 in Prizes. 🎥

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We are so thrilled to introduce DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge presented by Mux!

Running through January 4, this challenge invites you to record a 1-minute pitch video about your project and share it with the community. Consider this our version of "Shark Tank" but without the sharks.

Have you been thinking about a project for months but haven't gotten started? Take this as your signal to start building!

Previous projects welcome too! This is your moment to show off that side project, startup, or previous challenge submission that you worked so hard on but didn't get the recognition for.

Whether it's a weekend hack, a passion project you've been refining or thinking about for months, or something in between, we want to see it!

Our Prompt 🎥

Show off any side project you're proud of. Record a 1-minute pitch video explaining what your project is, what makes it special, and why you built it. Upload the video to Mux and embed it as part of your submission!

Additional Prize Category: Best Use of Mux

Interested in adding or using Mux in your project? We have a dedicated prize category for participants who use Mux in a fun and interesting way.

Check out these resources to offer some inspiration:

Judging Criteria

Your pitch will be evaluated using Shark Tank–inspired criteria:

  1. Problem & Opportunity - How clearly you explain the problem and why it matters
  2. Solution & Technical Approach - How well your app solves the problem and how thoughtful/creative your implementation is
  3. Value Proposition & Audience Benefit - Who it's for and what they get out of it
  4. Storytelling & Pitch Quality - Clarity, structure, and how engaging your 1-minute pitch is
  5. Scalability & "Would You Invest?" Potential - How big this could be and whether it feels investable

Prizes

Both Overall Prompt Winner and Best Use of Mux Winner will each receive:

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

How To Participate

To participate, you'll need to create a free Mux account (no credit card required), upload your video to Mux, and publish a post with your Mux video embedded using the submission template below.

 
Show and Tell Challenge Submission Template

 

Project Requirements

  • Must be a software side project that you are building/coding or have built/coded
  • Should be a web or mobile app
  • Must be your own code
  • Make testing easy for us! If your app requires logging in, please provide testing credentials in your submission and/or clear instructions on how to best test your application for judges.
  • App Store/TestFlight links (optional)
  • GitHub Repo (optional)
  • Live demo link (optional)

Pitch Video Requirements

  • Must be 1 minute or less
  • Should clearly cover:
    • What your app does/solves
    • Why you built it
    • What makes it unique or special
    • How it works

Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.

Getting Started with Mux

New to Mux? Here's what you need to know:

Important Dates

  • December 3: DEV's Worldwide Show and Tell Challenge begins!
  • January 4: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PST
  • January 22: Winners Announced

Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy pitching!

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Peter Kim Frank The DEV Team •

Can't wait to see everyone's projects ⭐️

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Noah Brinker The DEV Team •

Excited to see what everyone creates!

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Dave Kiss •

New year, new you - let this be the year you WILL tell people about the thing you're working on 😅

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team •

Good luck!

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Dylan Jhaveri •

Looking forward to seeing what people are hacking on over the holidays!

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Joshua Alphonse •

Take a shot and show us what you got! We're eager to see how creative everyone is.

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uratmangun •

what is this Video Semantic Search - Supa Search ? is this using supabase?

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Jess Lee The DEV Team •

@uratmangun here's more info:

GitHub logo muxinc / supasearch

Getting Started

Make sure you've added all .env vars required before proceeding

Requirements

  • Docker desktop
  • Deno curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh

Install dependencies

npm install

and

deno install

Serving the application

First, start the Supabase database.

npx supabase start
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If this is your first time running this command, your container layers will download. This takes a second, so go grab some water - you're dehydrated.

Next, open a new terminal tab and serve your Supabase functions locally:

npx supabase functions serve
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Next, open a third tab and start the Inngest queue server:

npx inngest-cli@latest dev
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Finally, run the Next.js development server:

npm run dev
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Open localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Seeding the database

npm run mux-backfill
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Create the video embeddings

This will run the createEmbedding function for each asset in our database

npm run videos-backfill-existing # All assets
npm run videos-backfill-missing  # Only assets with missing embeddings
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Viktar Davidovich •

I'm in

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Ibrahim Pima •

nice to be apart of this contest