GitHub Actions Hackathon Winners, Announced!

Back in August, we announced an exciting new challenge on DEV: the GitHub Actions Hackathon!

Participants were asked to create and document workflows that either leveraged existing GitHub Actions or made use of a new, custom action they built. These projects were filed under one of five categories: DIY Deployments, Maintainer Must-Haves, Phone-Friendly, Interesting IoT, or Wacky Wildcards.

You might have thought that the challenge here was in creating and leveraging actions, but the real challenge was for the judges. We were very impressed with the quality, creativity, and technicality of your projects, and selecting just a few Hackathon winners was extremely difficult!

After much deliberation between the DEV and GitHub teams, the final results are in!

Without further delay, let's meet our five grand prize winners and their awesome projects:

DIY Deployments:

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Maintainer Must-Haves:

More Eyes, Plz! Hackathon entry + update

Jeremy Ong ・ Aug 22 '20

#actionshackathon #help

Interesting IoT:

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Phone Friendly:

Jazz up the code blocks in Github Issues

Mithun Kamath ・ Aug 19 '20

#actionshackathon #github #showdev #javascript

Wacky Wildcards:

Maybe this useless workflow isn’t so useless after all?

Thai Pangsakulyanont ・ Aug 27 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

All Grand Prize Winners will receive:

• $1,500 USD gift card or equivalent 🤑
• $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop 😎
• GitHub Swag Pack 🎁
• DEV Sticker Pack ✨
• DEV “Actions Hackathon” grand prize winner badge 🏆

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Our Top 10 Runners-Up, in random order!

Build your ML models automatically using GitHub actions

haimantika mitra ・ Sep 10 '20

#actionshackathon

HandyVITA - Compiling PS Vita Homebrew with Github Actions

Francisco José García García ・ Sep 17 '20

#actionshackathon #emulation #psvita #vitasdk

Rick Astley is back!

Tejasv Sharma ・ Aug 20 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #showdev

P1: AppBrickie - Smart Github Action that delivers your app builds on Telegram!

Hemanth Krishna ・ Aug 31 '20

#actionshackathon #docker #showdev #android

Badge Action

emibcn ・ Sep 9 '20

#actionshackathon #javascript #react #serverless

Continuous Integration (CI) for JS apps - GitHub Actions workflow

Alba Silvente Fuentes ・ Aug 29 '20

#actionshackathon #javascript #github #vue

A Concierge workflow for Hacktoberfest using the Zeebe GitHub Action

Josh Wulf ・ Aug 24 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #hacktoberfest

Noisy Build

Doug Parsons ・ Sep 14 '20

#actionshackathon

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Github Workflow to change Smart Bulb color to RED on Pull Request

Vasu Jain ・ Sep 18 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

All runners-up will receive:

• $250 USD gift card or equivalent 💰
• $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🌈
• GitHub Swag Pack 😎
• DEV Sticker Pack 💻
• DEV “Actions Hackathon” runner-up badge 🌟

Participants

All participants with a valid project will receive a DEV sticker pack and a DEV "Actions Hackathon" participant profile badge. 🎉

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To everyone who submitted a project for the hackathon, fantastic job. By participating, you have helped to improve the GitHub Actions and open source ecosystem for everyone!

The GitHub team will follow up with each winner via email about their prizes, and the our team will do the same. Reminder that the DEV Team is on a company vacation this week so don't expect to hear from us until next week.

Thanks to all of you ❤️

Comments

[Peter Kim Frank]

Congrats to @mandiwise , @jeremyong , @mxarc , @callmekatootie , and @dtinth for being our Grand Prize winners!

Seriously blown away by the quality and creativity of submissions from everyone who participated. We hope that this contest served as a good opportunity to learn about GitHub actions, up your skills, and compete with your fellow community members.

[Aditya]

I haven't got the badge though I have submitted the post before the deadline but I have not got any mail or anything.
The link to my post:
dev.to/maverikai/actionshackathon-...

[Jeremy Ong]

Awesome! Thanks again for running the hackathon. Heaps of fun :)

[Mithun Kamath]

Thank you!

[Mithun Kamath]

Wuhoo! Thank you to the reviewers!

Came across multiple impressive Github Actions! Glad to have been part of the hackathon! Looking forward to participating in many more hackathons on DEV (Keep 'em coming!!)

[spiritupbro]

oh my God i didn't expect im become a runner up thanks dev.to

[haimantika mitra]

Omg! Took me almost 12 hours to actually process that I made it to the runner up position🙈. This was my first every action, took me around 84 commits to fix an error 🙈. It was so much fun! Thanks to the DEV Team for this!

[Alfonso Reyes]

Congratulations to everyone who participated! 🏆 Together we make the open-source ecosystem stronger and available to more people from different backgrounds and places.

Some Actions are mindblowing and I'm so glad to've participated, as a person who loves learning by doing this hackathon was the perfect excuse to try something new.

Looking forward more community events, thanks to the DEV.to staff and community <3

[Shunjid Rahman Showrov]

Congratulations to all the Winners and Runner-up. 🤗 Thanks to GitHub and the DEV community for this awesome hackathon. It was really a great experience.

[Brian Douglas]

Awesome job, everyone. It was nice to see so many great examples using this GitHub feature.

[Andrew Baisden]

Some cool projects here congrats all!!!

[Hemanth Krishna]

Congratulations to everyone who participated! was really amazed by the creativity and useful GitHub Actions this Hackathon has produced! It was a surprise that i made it to the Runner Up list. Kudos to The DEV Team for conducting this amazing hackathon! Had a great time building this action :D

[Darshan Sen]

Congratulations to everyone! Thank you GitHub and DEV for this awesome initiative. It was a great experience building GitHub Actions for all of us! :)