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Join our DEV Weekend Challenge — $1,000 in Prizes Across TEN winners! Submissions Due April 20 at 6:59 AM UTC.

Jess Lee on April 17, 2026

We're excited to kick off another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit into your weekend. We know the submission wind...
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Jonathan Murray

Ayyyy, Backboard.io Co-founder jumping in here, sign up through our Challenge page and use promo code DEVAPRIL for dev credits, and you can bring your Gemini API key along with ya!

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system1970

It says "Invalid or inactive promo code" when I try using it.

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Jonathan Murray

Try again! I had a typo i went to quick!!!

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system1970 • Edited

Yep! It works now <3

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Harish Kotra (he/him)

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Jonathan Murray

Try again! I had a typo i went to quick!!!

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

🌎🌍🌏

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Tumi Thembi Ntsie

Good day, is it a must to have a teammate or one can go individually?

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Ryan Swift

Check out the FAQs here: dev.to/challenges/weekend-2026-04-16

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Fayaz

Cool!

Question: for Google Gemini category, does one have to use Gemini API or any use of Gemini (e.g. Gemini CLI) would do?

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Ryan Swift

We'll put priority on teams that use and implement the Google Gemini APIs. It's encouraged to use Gemini CLI, Antigravity, or AI Studio to help you build your app, but we're awarding the prize for the best implementation/use of the api itself.

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Fayaz

Thanks! That answers it.

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Jonathan Murray

Use promo code DEVAPRIL for dev credits at backboard.io/hackathons and you can bring your Gemini API key along with ya!

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Fayaz

Nice!

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Valentin Monteiro

Great question I guess they'll need API cause of the partnership, but go through SDK would be something really great, anyway there's free plan with google API so...

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ChieFromThe60s🀄🎲

This is awesome!!!

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Good luck!

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Gladis Jenkins

太棒了!!!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Edited

Can't wait to see what others make!


Hey @konark_13, you might be able to afford earth if you win this challenge lol

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Konark Sharma

That's a tempting offer for me. Need to make something useful for people on earth.

Need to think and act fast otherwise you will steal the lead and del....i mean optimize earth.😆

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Na I actually gonna step this one out actually. Good luck to you though! I will be the judge to see if your product is worthy for you to buy earth. It better be something or else I am gonna dele-I mean sell earth to the highest bidder :)

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Konark Sharma

I will try. I'm actually blank rn. hahaha.

You should give it a try too as you make amazing optimized solutions otherwise you have the final call for it. I was looking forward for your idea. Anyways, have a good time building something better.