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Happening Now: DEV Weekend Challenge!! Submissions due March 2 at 7:59am UTC.

Jess Lee on February 27, 2026

Good morning! Good afternoon! Good Evening! Welcome to our first DEV Weekend Challenge, a short focused challenge designed to fit into your weeke...
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Aren Solomon

Great challenge! I will give this a try. It will be my first challenge here.

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Kyle Y. Parsotan

I like these challenges. Great way to practice my skills and build projects.

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Elyse West

I love this idea!! Going to give it some thought and try to vibe code something over the weekend.

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

YES ELYSE!!

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Sergio Barrera

Let's go!

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Harsh

This is such a cool idea! 🚀 I love that the prompt is community-focused—it makes the challenge feel meaningful. Already brainstorming something for my local open-source meetup. Can't wait to see what everyone builds!

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Veronika Kashtanova

Hey everyone! 👋 I built something for this challenge — ForkToPost 🔱 Paste your GitHub URL → get a ready-to-publish DEV post draft, generated by Gemini AI. Built for every dev here who codes until 2AM and has nothing left for the write-up 😅 Connects directly to your DEV.to profile.
Hope it helps someone submit before the deadline!
ForkToPost

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Somadina

But can any one build such an app, that helps solve a problem for a community they are in, although it just depends on how huge the problem is, and you did not mention where they will submit it how you will view it, will they build it and host it on GitHub, and later send you the link to view and judge?

Based on deadline you gave, I believe that where it is more realistic is if you have a tools you want developers to test their ability with that can generate the website based on prompt and that you can monitor

These are my humble opinion.

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Ryan Swift • Edited

You'll submit right here on DEV. There's a link to a Challenge Submission Template in the post, but I think this link should work too!

I'd definitely recommend including a GitHub repo + a live demo if possible (or a recorded video).

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Dirk Porsche

Hey what about an app, I built literally the last weekend. Is this eligible? Or do I need to start something fresh?

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Jess Lee The DEV Team • Edited

Hi there, the app needs to be built during the the timeframe of the challenge.

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diosamuel

this is cool, with tight deadline

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Muhammad Afsar Khan

I built a free font pairing tool for designers who are tired of guessing.

published: true
description: 100+ Google Font combinations with live preview, CSS copy, and zero signup

tags: [webdev, design, css, showcase]

The Community

I'm part of a huge community: designers and developers who struggle with font choices.

Every week on Reddit, I see posts like:

  • "What font goes with this logo?"
  • "Help me choose a font for my startup"
  • "Are these two fonts okay together?"

Font choice paralysis is real. And existing solutions? Static images with "Sample Text" that don't let you test your actual words.

What I Built

FontPreview.online/pairings — a free tool with:

  • 100+ curated Google Font combinations
  • Live preview — type your own text, see it instantly
  • Filter by style (modern, classic, elegant, bold, minimal)
  • One-click CSS copy for developers
  • No signup, no email, no ads

How It Works

[Insert screenshot here]

You type your text. The tool updates all 100+ cards. You find the perfect pair in seconds.

Under the hood: vanilla JavaScript, Google Fonts API, and a lot of designer judgment.

Why It Matters

Most font resources show you pretty pictures. This one shows you your words in real fonts — so you stop guessing and start building.

Try It

👉 FontPreview.online/pairings

Feedback welcome! Built for designers, by a designer.

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Guilherme Zaia

Weekend hackathons reveal who actually ships vs. who just talks architecture. Real constraint: Can you scope ruthlessly enough to deliver value in 48 hours without cutting corners on data validation or auth? Most 'community apps' die because devs build for imaginary scale instead of solving one painful workflow for 10 real users.

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Prahlad Yeri • Edited

Building an app is quite a comprehensive process, it involves gathering detailed requirements, creating rapport with the stakeholders, designing and coding the solution, perform testing and then deploy to production. A mere 3 day window is too short for this challenge I think.

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Juan Isidoro García Cifuentes

Wow, this is awesome! Sadly I won't be able to jump in this weekend, but I'm really looking forward to the next one — definitely counting me in for that!
Best of luck to everyone participating, I can't wait to see what you all come up with. Go crush it! 🙌

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Jared Santos

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Esther Itolima

I love it! I will definitely join the challenge

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venkat-training

Interesting.Let me try!

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Mr. Lin Uncut

lets gooooo

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Guillaume Dev

Is there a minimum required age?

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Hi there, you must be 18 or older. Full eligibility requirements can be found here.

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Samuel Komfi

Is it an mobile app or web app valid?

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REY_DEV

how l will see the task ??

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Charlene Anne

This is nice!

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Don Veetal • Edited

The main issue or problem, how the community will find your app? By App Store, boards like craigslists or by browser geo-location plugin?

That's the question.

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Michalis Papamichael

To be hones this is really good idea

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Shakib S.

I'll see to it actually. I think I have a good idea already!

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Diwakar DC

This is amazing idea! Let's build it 💪

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Ayo.web

Is this challenge still open?

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Mustapha Alaba • Edited

If someone notices a minor bug in their submission, can they update the repo (there is a push-to-deploy setup)? I am asking because it's past submission time.

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Diogo Aguiar

Gostei do desafio !

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ARSH PATEL

**cool bro ! **I will try my best.

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Rajeshree Kundu

This will be my first challenge, I am happy to participate here.

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isaquiasmarques

Very good idea.

I've been working on a project but it's far to be done, there is already a link of some parts of the front-end.

Is it eligible?

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Hi there, the app needs to be built during the the timeframe of the challenge.

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vapmail16

when you say app, is it a mobile app or can it be a web app/ website?