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Join us for the Neon Open Source Starter Kit Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes!

dev.to staff on August 21, 2024

We are so excited to partner with our diamond sponsor, Neon to bring the community a brand new challenge. Running through September 01, the Neon O...
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Ben Halpern

Good luck folks, Neon is awesome.

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Bobby Iliev

Fair enough, I understand where you're coming from! But I think that most of your questions are covered in the rules page here:

dev.to/challenges/neon

Personally, I've participated in multiple DEV hackathons and have had nothing but positive experiences, with fair judging from the DEV team (❤️). I've participated in other hackathons not organized by DEV. Some I won and some I didn't. But in general, these events can be a great way to learn, challenge yourself, and even meet like-minded developers. But if a contest doesn't feel right for you, it's okay to skip it and focus on opportunities that better match your goals 😊

In my personal view here, it's important to choose competitions and events that align with your interests and where you feel the effort is worth it. However, no one is forcing anyone to participate—it's completely your choice :)

On the starter kit question, in this particular case, the prompt should be self-explenatory, in general, a SaaS starter kit is a ready-made package that includes basic tools and code to help developers quickly create and launch an online software service. Out of the box, it comes with features like user accounts, dashboards, and security, subscriptions, so developers can spend less time on the basics and more time on customizing and improving their software.

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Jess Lee

Love the prompt for this one! Good luck to everyone participating!

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Noah Brinker

Good luck everyone!

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kassem

starter kit, no thanks i will try to find another challenge on the internet to build real stuff

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Ricardo Esteves

This is a great challenge, nice prompt! I use Neon for most of my side projects so this will be a fun one! Good luck DEV's & happy coding.

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Ava Nichols

Looks great

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Manish Prajapati

Good to see such rewarding challenges. All the best to participants

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Abdulramon Jemil

If only this could be extended for just one more day. I'm really down right now and would love to submit what I'm building 😢. It's been a series of setbacks—GitHub blocked my account, and I found out about the challenge several days after it was announced. Now my project isn't ready, and it feels like all the effort might go to waste.

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KAMALI INNOCENT

Wish you success to you all participants.

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Stephen Omoregie

Best of luck guys! However the results go, be proud that we've contributed to the body of knowledge that's powering our field as Developers - Open Source Contributions 💯

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João Victor

Good luck everyone!

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HamzaMateen

absolutely fair and W take. This should very well be explained and documented!

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Arjun Vijay Prakash

When will the winners be announced? It's already 3rd of September.

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Chirag Aggarwal

Just starting!

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cauhlins

Can anyone help with an issue connecting to the Neon host? Connection times out and both ping and telnet return failed.

Anyone with a solution to this?

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Travis Ramos

Sounds like a cool contest, I'll checkout Neon!

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EmreKanbay

This will be my first hackathon, Good luck everyone!

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Clinton Daniel

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