Jess Lee

for The DEV Team

Posted on Jul 1

Reflect and Share Your World's Largest Hackathon Journey: Writing Challenge Now Open 🌟

#wlhchallenge #devchallenge #ai #startup

The building period for the World's Largest Hackathon has officially wrapped up, and what an incredible month it was! With over 130,000 builders registered, this event truly lived up to its name as a launchpad for the next generation of creators.

Now it's time to reflect, share, and celebrate the journey. Running through July 31, the World's Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge offers everyone a chance to document their building experience and share it with the community.

Maybe you joined your first hackathon team, discovered the power of AI-assisted development, or found that your project took on a life of its own beyond any competition. Each of our three prompts captures a different aspect of the WLH experience, giving you the freedom to share what mattered most to you.

Read on for the prompts!

Our Prompts

Building with Bolt

Share your project development experience and technical journey. You might cover what you built, how Bolt.new transformed your development process, any sponsor challenges you tackled, favorite code snippets or prompts, or how AI-powered development changed your approach to building.

Building with Bolt Submission Template

Beyond the Code

Tell us about the human side of your hackathon experience. You might cover your team collaboration dynamics, IRL events you attended, connections you made, mentors who helped you, community moments that stood out, networking experiences, or shout-outs to people who made your hackathon memorable.

Beyond the Code Submission Template

After the Hack

Share what's next for you and your project, and reflect on what you learned. Whether you're continuing development, launching a startup, or found that building became more important than competing, tell us about your future plans, personal transformation, skills gained, or how this month of creation changed your trajectory.

After the Hack Submission Template

Judging Criteria and Prizes

All prompts will be judged on the following:

Style and presentation
Clarity
Originality

There will be at least one winner per prompt, and each winner will receive an exclusive DEV badge. All valid submissions will earn a completion badge.

How To Participate

In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with each prompt.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.

Important Dates

July 01: World's Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge begins!
July 31: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
August 21: Winners Announced

We hope you enjoy this opportunity to reflect on your building journey and share your story with the community. Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy writing!

Top comments (21)

Peter Kim Frank • Jul 1

This has been an epic hackathon that brought a bunch of new builders into the ecosystem. Look forward to reading the reflections and learnings, especially from folks that are brand new to building with software.

Ben Halpern • Jul 1

Good luck to everyone! And welcome to DEV for new folks.

Besworks • Jul 2

I've been too busy hacking away to write here lately but I'll definitely be submitting something for this! Can't wait for the Devpost project gallery to open up for this hackathon too, I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of interesting projects.

Aima Atigari • Jul 9

Totally understand you mate

Nathan Tarbert • Jul 1

super cool, just seeing how many builders came together is next level
i’m curious what surprised you most about working with such a massive group

Angel • Jul 4

It was a pleasure to learn from the bests, to grow as a dev and a creator, and to surround myself with people who also believe in building the future one insane idea at a time.

Much love to all the entrepreneurs, tinkerers, late night coders and pixel warriors out here. And Good luck with Hackathon Results :)

Angel • Jul 5

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Thanks ALL for this! #Bolt #Hackathon

Yunika • Jul 7

I had an amazing time joining my first hackathon! Loved how the tool completely transformed the way I build and helped turn my ideas into reality. Just shared my story for the writing challenge: dev.to/yunika66/vibe-coding-my-way...