Hello, dear DEV community!
If you've been a member of our community for a while now, chances are, you've witnessed a handful of hackathons on DEV — and maybe even participated in one yourself. Today, we're excited to share a brand new type of opportunity to use your skills, create something amazing, and win cool prizes in the process.
From today (March 10, 2022) through April 11, 2022 @ 11:59 PM UTC, Deepgram is inviting members of the DEV Community to submit a project for our joint hackathon in exchange for some great prizes and recognition.
The catch?
Our contest co-host and sponsor, Deepgram, is encouraging participants to use many different types of creativity and talent in a way that's unlike anything we've done on DEV before. So, whether you're looking to build an application, use your writing skills, or simply champion other participants, the Deepgram x DEV Community hackathon has something for you.
The magic is in the details, so let's jump right into it.
What is Deepgram?
Voice is the most common way we communicate, and yet, as developers, it can be hard to get meaningful data. That's where Deepgram comes in.
Deepgram is a speech-to-text (STT) company whose API takes an audio file or audio stream and converts it into written text, providing a transcript and other information about the transcribed data. With their revolutionary end-to-end, Deep Learning technology that includes language support, Deepgram makes sure that every voice is heard and understood by providing fast and accurate transcripts.
Hackathon Challenges & Rules
For this contest, we are offering two different types of challenges to appeal to different interests and skill sets...
"Build" Challenge:
Select a category below and follow its theme to build, add on to, or upgrade an existing project using Deepgram and share the story of their process.
- Create a Deepgram account, or use your existing one
- Create a DEV account
- Select one of the following four categories:
• Accessibility Advocates: Use Deepgram to improve user accessibility. Think about user input, accessing media or live events, and improving understanding.
• Analytics Ambassadors: Use Deepgram to analyze one or many pieces of audio. You may analyze a single call to help understand what happened or analyze hundreds of media files all at once.
• Gram Gamers: Use Deepgram in a game. You may build an entirely voice or text-based game, a 2D or 3D game, or more novel playable experiences.
• Wacky Wildcards: If it doesn’t fit into the categories above, Build an app using Deepgram that's totally out-of-the-box, random, and fun.
- Use this template to create your submission post. Provide URLs, screenshots, a description, source code, etc. Note: If you are not logged into an account on DEV, you won't be able to see this template.
- Share your submission on DEV by April 11, 2022 @ 11:59 PM UTC
"Innovative Ideas" Challenge
Deepgram is also offering a challenge that doesn't require you to build an application. Instead, the "Innovative Ideas" challenge invites you to come up with an interesting use-case for Deepgram and tell us all about it! Your submission will cover the big ideas and story of what you've come up with and any mock-ups you've created in a thoughtful blog post.
- Create a DEV account
- Use this template to guide your "Innovative Ideas" challenge submission, including all requirements mentioned. Note: If you are not logged into an account on DEV, you won't be able to see this template.
- Share your submission on DEV by April 11, 2022 @ 11:59 PM UTC
Community Engagement Challenge
For the first time ever, we are also inviting both hackathon participants and DEV Community Members who are cheering them on from the sidelines to earn limited-edition badges in exchange for the following:
- Leaving an encouraging comment/constructive feedback on a Deepgram Hackathon submission
- Asking a technical question related to Deepgram in the Help Thread.
- Answering a question in the Help Thread.
- Posting an update or encouraging participants in the Community Discussion Thread.
We're also randomly selecting four people in the Community Engagement category to win a credit worth $50 USD at the Forem Shop
Prizes
5 Grand Prize Winners (— one in each category of the "Build" challenge and one in the "Innovative Ideas" challenge) will receive:
- $1,500 USD gift card or equivalent
- $300 USD credit to the Forem Shop
- Deepgram swag pack
- DEV sticker pack
- DEV “Deepgram Hackathon” Grand Prize winner profile badge, unique to the category selected
Runner-Up Prizes (10 Total, across all categories and challenges):
- $250 USD gift card or equivalent
- $150 USD credit to the Forem Shop
- DEV and Deepgram sticker packs
- DEV “Deepgram Hackathon” Runner-Up profile badge, unique to the category selected
Participants (with a valid project):
- DEV sticker pack
- DEV “Deepgram Hackathon” participant profile badge
Community Engagement Prizes
In addition to the special profile badges we'll be awarding for Community Engagement, we'll also be randomly selecting one winner for each of the four Community Engagement categories to win $50 USD in cash.
DEV will double the sticker credit prize for all participants who submit under the "Build" and "Innovative Ideas" categories with valid projects for a total of $25 to the DEV shop. Just remember to house all your submission posts under the same series. More on that in the templates above.
Additional Rules:
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to 18+. Contest entry period ends April 11, 2022 at 11:59 PM UTC. Contest is void where prohibited, or restricted by law or regulation. For Official Rules, see Contest Announcement Page and General Contest Official Rules.
Community Help and Support
If you need assistance with the hackathon rules or with Deepgram services during this contest, please ask all questions in the Deepgram Hackathon Help thread. The thread will be monitored by members of the DEV team and Deepgram teams.
If you'd like to share ideas with other participants, spread some motivation, or post an update about your project, check out the Community Discussion Thread.
Remember: We're awarding badges and prizes for participating in the Help and Community threads!
Deepgram will also be hosting a number of events throughout this contest to both motivate and support participants. Be sure to check Deepgram’s event hub here and mark the important dates on your calendar (below).
Important Dates 🗓
- March 10, 2022: Hackathon Begins!
- March 11, 2022: Deepgram Twitch Kickoff Stream at 6:30 PM UTC
- Tuesdays (March 15, 22, 29, & April 5): Twitter Spaces hosted by Deepgram here at 5 PM UTC.
- Fridays (March 11, 18, & 25. April 1 & 8): Deepgram “Office Hours” on Twitch at 6:30 PM UTC.
- April 11, 2022: Hackathon submissions due at 11:59 PM UTC.
During Deepgram’s Twitch streams, they will be available for questions and highlighting featured submissions.
Winners to be announced in the weeks following the hackathon due date. Prizes and all profile badges will be fulfilled soon after the official winner announcement post is shared on DEV
Top comments (96)
This will be the first Hackathon I'll be participating in! Really excited !!!!!!!!
🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 Hooray! Can't wait to see what you hack!!
We're so excited too! Let us know if you need any help!!!
Hey I have completed 3 missions on DeepGram's dashboard. Is it considered as a project for submission?
no that's just a tutorial that shows how to use the deepgram api
Oh! so through that api tutorial we can build projects?
using the API, you can build projects
You might find our deepgram hackathon page helpful for getting started. We have examples or support posts for each category. There are some example projects you can use to get you started. The Innovative Ideas category is a no-code category; so if you're more comfortable writing a blog post, then you can share your idea for what could be done with Deepgram.
We're also holding open office hours on our @Deepgramdevs Twitch on Fridays at 1:30pm edt, so if you have questions you're welcome to ask them live as well.
That's amazing! Can't wait to see what you create!
Awesome!
Alright, I got a free idea I'm gonna throw out there for anybody that wants it. I'm not a developer so have no fear that I might change my mind and build something. 😅
I'd love to see a sing-along game! Y'all remember Disney sing-alongs? I think it'd be so cool to be able to have an AI that you could feed video and it would visualize the transcript/subtitles in a similar way to Disney sing-alongs with a little Micky Mouse silhouette bouncing on each syllable! If you don't know what I'm talking about just check out this video below. 👇
By the way, I'm super siked for this hackathon!
As your resident Disney fan I am into this.
That's a really cool idea. Don't forget about the "Innovative Ideas" category that doesn't require you to build anything. This would be a great submission there.
Whaat?! 🤯
I completely missed that part. 😅
Shoot. I might actually have to enter this.
Thanks very much!
I hope you do!
Just participated in the Azure hackathon, adding speech recognition capabilities as a virtual input controller in a web desktop I'm making: dev.to/jzombie/azure-trial-hackath...
Might make another controller using Deepgram.
That sounds like a cool idea!
I've recently just became aware of 'Deep Learning' through Udemy.com website. And, it kind of made me drool. Although I will likely not be participating, I'll try to follow along with the progress that everybody makes in contributing.
Well, I hope you still consider joining in. There's lots of space to contribute in different ways.
Consider, I will!
This will be epic!! Can't wait to see all the awesome hackathon submissions! 💥 💃🏽 🕺🏾
Oh hey stranger!
Hi! 👋🏾
Dev.to conducts amazing new types of Hackathons almost every one after another to keep the hype. Love it <3
Yay!
Really amazing hackathon challenges to hack on 🚀😃
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We're super excited to see what everyone will come up with. We've got some resources for support and inspiration up on our page too developers.deepgram.com/events/dev...
I absolutelly LOVE the Community Engagement Challenge!!!! Such a great idea!
We love the idea of folks helping each other <3
This will be my first contribution in hachathon I guess! Let's go 🚀
Sweet! Can't wait to see what you create!
Just released deepwordle: a TUI clone of the famous wordle game powered by Python, Deepgram, Textual, Tweepy, and friends. I am currently writing an article to explain what's going on. I only have 16 hours! Zamn!
editt: it's live: dev.to/wiseai/level-up-your-wordle...
Wow!
This is great!! 😊
This will be great Hackathon for sure!
I hope you submit!
So excited to see what everyone makes!
Same here! Lots of potential.
We're doing a live kickoff over on our @DeepgramDevs Twitch Account Friday, Mar 11 at 1:30pm EST and we're going to be dropping ideas, tips, and inspiration over on our @DeepgramDevs Twitter account all month long.
And I just want to point out that you can submit as many times as you want!
I'm loving these new partnerships to build community 🥳
Woot! 🙌