In December, we announced a new challenge on DEV, in partnership with our friends at DigitalOcean: the App Platform Hackathon.
Our intrepid Hackathon participants were challenged to build brand new apps using DigitalOcean’s App Platform. DigitalOcean offered them credits in order to leverage their professional tool for free. Submissions were to be filed in one of four categories: Personal Site/Portfolio, Program for the People, Built for Business, and last but certainly not least, Random Roulette.
The process of picking just one grand prize winner for each category and 10 total runners-up was difficult, to say the least. But somehow, the judging panels at DEV and DigitalOcean managed to narrow in on some truly standout projects. We’re thrilled to share them with you today!
So, without further ado, let's meet the winners of the DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon on DEV!
Personal Site/Portfolio: @abhinavchawla13
Program for the People: @jcsmileyjr
Built for Business: @guild
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Random Roulette: @dawntraoz
All Grand Prize Winners will receive:
- $2,000 USD gift card or equivalent 🤑
- $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop 😎
- DigitalOcean Swag Pack 🎁
- DEV Sticker Pack ✨
- DEV “App Platform Hackathon” grand prize profile badge 🏆
- A Zoom meet-and-greet with DigitalOcean’s CEO, Yancey Spruill 👋
And, our Top 10 Runners-Up, in random order!
All runners-up will receive:
- $200 USD gift card or equivalent 💰
- $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🌈
- DigitalOcean Swag Pack 🎩
- DEV Sticker Pack 💻
- DEV “App Platform Hackathon” runner-up profile badge 🌟
Participants
All participants with a valid project will receive a DEV Sticker Pack and an “App Platform Hackathon” participant profile badge. 🎉
To everyone who submitted a project for this hackathon, you should be super proud of yourselves. In the process of building your app, you’ve contributed to the DigitalOcean App Platform library and gained new experience with a professional tool.
The DigitalOcean team will follow up with each winner via email about their prizes, and the DEV team will do the same within two weeks.
Great work, everyone! We hope you had a blast participating in this challenge. ❤️
Latest comments (33)
I loved participating! Goal: Write my own in next year's! and learn all the things I wrote down that I wanted to learn in my post. Congrats to the winners!
Did anyone get the mail yet participants?
Congratulations to all the winners🏆🎉🏆
I also participated, It was a wonderful experience and got the badge but didn't get any mail regarding DEV sticker pack, waiting...
Hey I didn't get the badge neither did I get any mail yet
Is the process still on ?
Now I got my swags too, if you have submitted your project before the deadline and made a post regarding that in dev then you should be eligible. For more info check the DO+Hackathon post, hope this solves your queries.
I did submit before the deadline
Hope the coordinators see this discussion.
👍
Moreover people who submitted after the deadline also got their badge!
Ohh, but I have no idea.
Hi there! We will be sending out these emails today 😃
The price of Hard Work should not come as a surprise. Congratulations to you all.
Congratulations to the winners and great work to all that participated! Some really awesome ideas came out of this hackathon.
Thanks DigitalOcean & DEV for sponsoring!
Congratulations everyone.
Whaaaaaat... I won?
Thanks a lot DEV team and congratulations to all who participated and your awesome work!
Congrats! I ended up being too busy to do anything, but I'm so happy for the winners! Great job.
Congratulations to all the winners and runner-ups! Very exciting.
Wait what? I won? 😲
I'm lacking words to explain how much happy I'm right now! :D
It was an amazing experience, and not to mention this is my 1st hackathon on the #DEV Community. I got to learn so many things while we (I along with my teammate) were working on this. Explored so many new ideas on this platform!
In a nutshell, it was a great learning experience & I'm looking forward to participating more! :)
Congratulations to everyone who participated!
Thanks to DigitalOcean & the entire DEV Team for organizing this Hackathon :D ❤️
Congrats!!!
Thanks Ben! 😊
Congratulations to all the winners... 😊
Congrats~~~ You're awesome...
Big thanks to Dev and DigitalOcean Teams for hosting the hackathon.😇
This was such a wonderful experience as I got a chance to execute my idea, try and learn new things!
It was amazing seeing devs coming all together to share their knowledge and build awesome products. It was a great learning experience.
Kudos to everyone who participated!❤️
Congratulations to everyone, really amazing 👏
Congratulations to all the winners! 🙌