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Join the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge: $3,000 Prize Pool!

Jess Lee on May 21, 2026

We're thrilled to announce our newest challenge with GitHub! Running through June 7, the GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge invites you to finally ...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Edited

Wait a minute. This is perfect. :o

I was picking up on a project I haven't touch for a year now and seeing this post is crazy timing. Can't wait to share to DEV! :D

Question. When you are teaming up to 4 people, that includes yourself in that group?

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Rohan Sharma

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Akshat Arya

I already know the hardest part will be deciding which unfinished project deserves a comeback 🥲🥲

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Murtala Mudi

Good to see this! I just thought of a project I've been contemplating whether to refine it further or not. This is the time to complete it.

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Sandesh Dawkhar

Yesssssss.
Lessss go.🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️🏃🏻‍➡️

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

This really speaks to me :P

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Julien Avezou

This is an awesome challenge! Half the challenge will be choosing which project to revive :D

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Fayaz

Cool! 😍
Have more than a few projects I've never finished 😁

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Anna Villarreal • Edited

TLDR: bruh...



General groaning

I have been summoned.

I know exactly which project.

And that is going to be a lot of work. 😂 You mean the really awesome rails app I built from actual scratch and put to the wayside because I don't want to rebuild it in React because that's what everyone is doing now? You know what really prevents me from finishing things?

  • The idea of having to market it to people.
  • The idea of actually being successful and having to manage that.
  • I also realize how unlikely this is, but the fear is real lol.

When I think about making an app and trying to get people on bored, I think of those annoying commercials where the guy is always like "there's an app for that!" or like the multiple instances where people make fun of people that have ideas for apps. Is this the thorn in the side of every developer?

Then there's the whole "how many users do you have" thing. Ugh. Having to ever answer that question would make me question my existence. I just want to build sparklies all day, unquestioned. 😂

Gemini gives me a reality check further convincing me:

words of wisdom

Oh cool. So I build houses now. I should finish putting the walls up then.

But the even bigger problem is that I have poked around with it so much I don't know where the best place to start is. By the time I finish this comment, I probably could have found the root of a bug. Ahhhhhh... distractions!

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Edited

My brain has been folded more times than me trying to think that Dynamic Programming is some kind of Gaslighting while loop lol

What did I just read? 👀

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Anna Villarreal

Idk but you got me confused now too. Its a party. (Actually laughing) 😂

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Michael Zhu

When you are distracted, just call me without hesitation. I will raise you up. :D

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Anmol Baranwal

haven't tried github copilotkit on three.js .. let's see how it does 😅

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Pascal CESCATO

Awesome! This challenge is perfect and really speaks to me… I have tons of “pending” projects; I’m sure I’ll find one that GitHub Copilot will help me finalize 😁

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Andy Nian

The "before and after" requirement sounds like a good way to show GitHub Copilot's utility. But I'm skeptical about how much Copilot can turn a half-baked idea into a fully realized project. Anyone else feel like it's sometimes just fancy autocomplete? For actual project completion, I found a specific bank for code challenges on PracHub that helped with similar competitions. It's more targeted than just browsing random GitHub repos for inspiration.

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George R

It seems that with the free subscription from GitHub Copilot all we get is 2000 autocomplete and 50 agent runs, so not that much to finish a project. I wonder if the sponsors will provide any extra credits for this challenge.

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vick bake

I guess you can team up with antigravity🤣

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Jem The DEV Team

Time to dust off those old builds!

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Muhammad Khan

I don't know what type of app should it be, @jess , like a Android app or is it to be a website, I have no idea 💡, maybe if I could use .net maui for Android, because that's where I probably am always and where GitHub copilot is too(visual studio).

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Klaudia Grzondziel

Thank you for this challenge! 💛 Such a great opportunity to come back to the portal related to technical writing that I abandoned a bit in favour of other projects!

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Eduardo P. Gomez

Question. Does it need to be open source?

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Hayden Rear

I know! Almost creepy! But I suppose we all have that project we’ve been reconsidering.

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Michael Tettey

Can i supplement github copilot with other agents?

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h nopr

good programs but where is the subsidiary for copilot during your challenge ?

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CharmPic

今もまだ開発しているから
参加出来ないのかな

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Prantik Medhi

less goooooo

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Abhishek Kumar Suman

yayy! let's go, I have one project which I need to revive 😄

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kol kol

This is one of those posts that should be bookmarked. The practical examples really help bridge the gap between 'I know the syntax' and 'I can use this in production.'

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Jitesh Kumar Sahoo

do we have to make the repository public to be eligible?

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Ibrohim

Does Github provide teams with Github Copilot Subscription for the time of the hackathon?

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Gifty

Love it

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Han Kriz

Truly im just new i dont understand where iv to start

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kelsey-d

Crying in all my past projects were abandoned for a reason

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Dark Tor

i like it

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gulnur

nice challenge

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Michael Zhu

真有意思。但是怎么我可以找到还没完成的项目?我觉得这个竞争的目标不明显。