Jess Lee

for The DEV Team

Posted on Jan 1 • Edited on Jan 3

Join the New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes + Feedback from Google AI Team (For Winners and Runner Ups!)

#devchallenge #googleaichallenge #career #gemini

We're thrilled to kick off 2026 with our newest challenge presented by Google AI!

Running through February 1, the "New Year, New You" Portfolio Challenge invites you to build or update your developer portfolio using Google AI's powerful tools and infrastructure.

Whether you're a seasoned developer looking for a refresh or just starting your career journey, this challenge is the perfect opportunity to showcase your skills and create something that represents you.

We hope you give it a try!

The Prompt

Your mission is to create a new portfolio site that showcases your work, skills, and personality.

This is your chance to make a great first impression! Build a portfolio that:

Represents who you are as a developer
Highlights your best projects and accomplishments
Demonstrates your technical skills
Shows off your unique personality and style

Please use any of Google AI's tools to bring your portfolio to life:

AI Studio - Build with Google's Gemini models
Gemini CLI - Command-line tools for AI-powered development
Antigravity - Google's AI-first development environment

The most important requirement? Your portfolio must be deployed to Google Cloud Run and embedded directly in your submission post.

Prizes

Winners (3) will each receive:

$1,000 USD
Personalized feedback on their portfolio from the Google AI team
Exclusive DEV Badge
A completion badge on their DEV profile

Runner-Ups (5) will receive:

Personalized feedback on their portfolio from the Google AI team
Exclusive DEV Badge
A completion badge on their DEV profile

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

How To Participate

In order to participate, you'll need to deploy your portfolio to Google Cloud Run and publish a post using the submission template below.

Your portfolio should be live, functional, and embedded in your post using the Cloud Run embed feature. Don't forget to include the dev label as instructed in the how-to post!

"New Year, New You" Challenge Submission Template

Google Cloud Free Tier

Google AI offers a generous free tier should be more than sufficient to complete your portoflio.

Pricing example for us-central1 region:

CPU: First 240,000 vCPU-seconds free per month
RAM: First 450,000 GiB-seconds free per month

Please review our judging criteria, rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.

Getting Started 🚀

Not sure where to begin? Here are some resources to help you get started:

From prompt to deployed app in less than 2 minutes

Paige Bailey for Google AI ・ Jul 2 '25

#webdev #programming #ai #gemini

Gemini 3 Flash is now available in Gemini CLI

Taylor Mullen for Google AI ・ Dec 17 '25

#gemini #cli #ai #terminal

Introducing Google Antigravity, a New Era in AI-Assisted Software Development

Antigravity Team for Google AI ・ Nov 19 '25

#antigravity #google #gemini #ai

And for anyone who would also like to deploy their portfolio to a custom domain:

Give your AI Studio deployed app a custom URL

Paige Bailey for Google AI ・ Dec 11 '25

#webdev #programming #javascript #beginners

Eligibility Requirements

This specific challenge includes the following restrictions:

Territories and regions excluded: Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Iraq, Kosovo, Libya, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Russia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Venezuela, Yemen, Crimea, the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), the so-called Luhansk People's Republic (LNR).
Additional participant exclusions for this challenge: Government institution employees, Google employees
Open only to 18+

These challenge-specific restrictions are in addition to all eligibility requirements and exclusions detailed in our General Contest Official Rules and New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge Presented by Google AI Contest Rules.

Important Dates

January 1, 2026: New Year, New You Portfolio Challenge begins!
February 1, 2026: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PST
February 19, 2026: Winners Announced

We can't wait to see the portfolios you create! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy coding! 🎉

Top comments (51)

naveen gaur • Jan 2

This challenge came at the perfect time 🚀 I’ve been planning to refresh my portfolio, and this is a great opportunity to rebuild with new ideas and tech. Excited to participate and share progress along the way. Looking forward to seeing how others approach their portfolio redesigns too 💻✨

Pascal CESCATO • Jan 2

Awesome! This is the challenge I was waiting for 🙂
I jumped straight into architecture design and coding as soon as I read the post, and things are moving fast.
Now comes the hard part: writing the accompanying article… and that’s a whole different challenge 😄

Simangaliso Vilakazi • Jan 2 • Edited

Immediately jumped into build mode when I saw this. Thanks for putting it together! I have been meaning to refresh my portfolio for a while now.

I haven’t worked with Cloud Run before, so this should be a great excuse to learn it. Planning to submit tomorrow.

Mason Wright • Jan 2

This challenge sounds exciting and very helpful for developers. It is a great way to start the new year by building or updating a portfolio using Google AI tools. I like that it is open to both beginners and experienced developers. The prizes, feedback from the Google AI team, and badges are a big bonus. Thank you for sharing this opportunity. I am looking forward to seeing the portfolios everyone creates and may join the challenge myself.

nc • Jan 5

I have a confusion, I haven't built a personal project in a while and all my old projects are just meh, but I still wanna take part in this portfolio contest, suggestions please?