Hello! We're kicking off another DEV Weekend Challenge, a short bite-sized challenge planned to fit into your weekend. We know the submission window is tight, so we've set the timing to ensure that no matter where you are in the world, you'll have the majority of your Saturday and Sunday to participate.
We'll select one overall winner and four prize category winners who utilize a specific technology as part of their challenge submission.
Let's get to it!
Prize Categories
Four prize categories are up for grabs for participants who incorporate a specific technology into their project. You don't need to use any of these tools to be eligible for our overall winner spots, but if you're curious about any of the tech, this is a great excuse to give one a try.
- Best use of Snowflake
- Best use of Solana
- Best use of ElevenLabs
- Best use of Google AI
Pro Tip: Since prize category winners are drawn from a smaller pool of submissions, your odds of taking home a prize are meaningfully higher.
Note: You may use multiple technologies in a single submission to qualify for multiple categories, but participants are limited to one win per challenge.
Judging Criteria
All submissions will be judged on the following:
- Relevance to Theme: Does the project clearly connect to the challenge theme?
- Creativity: Is the concept original or is it an interesting take on a familiar problem?
- Technical Execution: Is the project functional, well-built, and easy to use?
- Writing Quality: Is the submission post clearly written and engaging?
- Use of Prize Category Technology (optional): If pursuing a prize category, does the submission meaningfully incorporate the chosen technology?
Prizes
Five winners will each take home:
- $200 USD
- DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV badge
All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge.
Need Help?
Check out our official challenge page for resources to help you get started with tech from our prize category partners.
Important Dates
Launch Time: July 10, 2026 2:00 AM UTC
Submissions Due: July 13, 2026 6:59 AM UTC
Here's what that looks like across a few timezones:
| Timezone | Launch Time (Local) | Submissions Due (Local) |
|---|---|---|
| PDT | Thursday, Jul 9 at 7:00 PM | Sunday, Jul 12 at 11:59 PM |
| EDT | Thursday, Jul 9 at 10:00 PM | Monday, Jul 13 at 2:59 AM |
| GMT | Friday, Jul 10 at 2:00 AM | Monday, Jul 13 at 6:59 AM |
| CEST | Friday, Jul 10 at 4:00 AM | Monday, Jul 13 at 8:59 AM |
| IST | Friday, Jul 10 at 7:30 AM | Monday, Jul 13 at 12:29 PM |
| JST | Friday, Jul 10 at 11:00 AM | Monday, Jul 13 at 3:59 PM |
| AEST | Friday, Jul 10 at 12:00 PM | Monday, Jul 13 at 4:59 PM |
Winners will be announced on Thursday, July 30.
Questions about the challenge? Drop them in the comments below.
Good luck!!
Top comments (33)
Excited to let the passion WIN!!! 🥰
I just saw the announcement and am seeing so many good posts am afraid of doing it cause i have never won one but am ready to put my best foot forward
You can do it! Don't worry about other submissions. (Most likes != Win).
Good Luck!
Just submitted mine and it was a genuine pleasure. I built DuelUp Live, an AI announcer that calls beach-sport duels play-by-play (Gemini writes it, ElevenLabs voices it): footvolley, beach tennis, tennis and beach volleyball. I made it for my real futevôlei crew back in Brazil, the sport I play every single day, so building it never felt like work.
If anyone wants a look, ring the bell and it calls the match live: dev.to/vinimabreu/i-gave-my-futevo...
Good luck to everyone who joined!
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Its a good way for "DEV community" to get unique ideas from people all over the world, because let's be frank, this event is tailored to get projects that have been ongoing / completed long before this "passion-week", in contrast to something like a "Game Jam" where the rules are tailored to reflect the spirit of the event, which is "A project created during the weekend."
Must the project, be newly built, from the time of the announcement, or those previously built mvps supported.
asking, cause, the announcement was made today, and am already seeing couple of sumissions.
Guys this is COSMOS, I have built using three.js please read this tweet and GitHub link is available.
Submitted! My father spent decades publishing horticulture research — I built a grounded RAG assistant so growers can query those papers without hallucinated rootstock codes or spray rates.
Demo (RU corpus today, EN rollout next): dev.to/kantik001/my-father-wrote-t...
Good luck everyone 🔥
Happy to participate! My submission is PunamIDE, an AI-powered desktop IDE built with Rust, Tauri, React, and Monaco.
One of the core goals was to go beyond AI chat by adding AST-based code analysis and architectural intelligence. I'd love to hear feedback from fellow developers, and I'm excited to check out everyone else's entries as well. 🚀
🔗 dev.to/amritanshu_amar/punamide-i-...
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