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Join our DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition! $1,000 in Prizes Across FIVE Winners. Submissions Due August 17 at 6:59 AM UTC.

Jem on August 14, 2026

We're back with another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit into your weekend. We know the submission window is tigh...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Wof Wof :)

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Good luck!

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John

Seems like a fun challenge to take part in. I posted a entry for this event, my second ever Dev challenge , taking me out of my comfort zone of c# coding and back into html. Hopefully my submission is better than my "artwork" 😅

Feel free to have a quick try of my demo/game and upload a art submission, and let me know how it is. Goodluck to all participants of the challenge event,

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Nicola Fiore

😍

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Talha Ramzan

A dog-themed weekend challenge right before International Dog Day is
such a fun touch. The "one win per challenge but multiple category
eligibility" structure is a nice way to balance fairness with giving
people room to experiment with more than one prize tech.

Tight timeline (Fri to Mon) makes it feel approachable too, easy to
convince yourself "I'll just try something small" instead of overthinking
a huge project. Curious to see what people build with ElevenLabs for a
dog-themed submission, that's an interesting pairing.

Good luck to everyone participating!

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Divya

🔗 Finally got to submit something for the Dog Days Edition! 🐾

Meet Tail Tales — you tell it your dog's name, breed, and one weird little habit they have, pick a genre, and Gemini writes a short story starring them, in their own voice. Tried to make each genre actually feel different — a thriller builds tension and lands a twist, heart-warming just slows down and sits in one soft moment.

Built it mostly to see if I could get an AI to write with real personality instead of generic filler — turned out to be the most fun part of the whole weekend.

🔗 dev.to/divya_saroja/tail-tales-tur...

Would genuinely love to hear what genre you'd pick for your own dog. Good luck to everyone else who built this weekend! 🐶

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Allen Labrague

🐾 Sniffari — Every Walk Is an Adventure

Hi everyone! 👋

I just published my DEV Weekend Challenge: Dog Days Edition submission!

I built Sniffari, an AI-powered dog-walking adventure using Google Gemini for missions and photo validation, plus ElevenLabs to narrate the dog's final adventure story. 🐶✨

🔗 dev.to/a11en/sniffari-turning-dog-...

I'd love to hear your feedback. Good luck everyone! 🚀🐾

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De Metter Kenny

Cool idea. A bit late for me to start now, but I'm curious what others come up with.

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Miracle Omokaro

Best use of those technologies?
Like, how do we get access to them?
Are we to pay for them?

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metaeth77

great

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Amol

awesome

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MUHAMMAD NAVEED SHAHZAD

wao

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Asada Shinsaku

Seems really fun. Does anyone happen to have experience with this challenge?

I am waiting for anyone's help.