DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon Winners, Announced!

In December, we announced a new challenge on DEV, in partnership with our friends at DigitalOcean: the App Platform Hackathon.

Our intrepid Hackathon participants were challenged to build brand new apps using DigitalOceans App Platform. DigitalOcean offered them credits in order to leverage their professional tool for free. Submissions were to be filed in one of four categories: Personal Site/Portfolio, Program for the People, Built for Business, and last but certainly not least, Random Roulette.

The process of picking just one grand prize winner for each category and 10 total runners-up was difficult, to say the least. But somehow, the judging panels at DEV and DigitalOcean managed to narrow in on some truly standout projects. Were thrilled to share them with you today!

So, without further ado, let's meet the winners of the DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon on DEV!

Personal Site/Portfolio: @abhinavchawla13

Personal Portfolio: Final Submission

Abhinav Chawla Jan 8 3 min read

#dohackathon #showdev #webdev #vue

Program for the People: @jcsmileyjr

Building a mental health crisis app, Final Day.

JC Smiley Jan 10 3 min read

#dohackathon #codepen #mentalhealth

Built for Business: @guild

Guild.so - DO Hackathon Submission

Guild Jan 6 3 min read

#dohackathon #laravel #css #php

Random Roulette: @dawntraoz

Final submission for DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon

Alba Silvente Dec 23 '20 1 min read

#dohackathon #potatizer #nuxt #tailwind

All Grand Prize Winners will receive:

• $2,000 USD gift card or equivalent
• $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop
• DigitalOcean Swag Pack
• DEV Sticker Pack
• DEV App Platform Hackathon grand prize profile badge
• A Zoom meet-and-greet with DigitalOceans CEO, Yancey Spruill

And, our Top 10 Runners-Up, in random order!

@anabella

Emoji traffic jam generator!

anabella Jan 9 3 min read

#dohackathon #emoji #art #generativeart

@shiftyp

Space Themed Site with Mini Game!

Ryan Lynch (he/him) Dec 19 '20 2 min read

#dohackathon #webdev #javascript

@ameysunu

@neilblaze

Who-of-us? Find else he'll escape

Pratyay Banerjee Jan 10 4 min read

#dohackathon #gamedev #phaserjs #showdev

@stephjs

Building a Sunday scaries Messaging Service

Steph Jan 11 2 min read

#dohackathon #aws #node #lol

@circa10a

The mcbroken dashboard - digitalocean hackathon entry

Caleb Lemoine Dec 21 '20 2 min read

#dohackathon #monitoring #showdev #cloud

@shriji

Final Submission: Dev to Sapper

Shriji Jan 10 1 min read

#dohackathon #svelte #sapper

@abidishajia

Jobamatic - Automate your job search

Shajia Abidi Jan 10 3 min read

#dohackathon

@curiouspaul1

Coveed: Help to mitigate stress on the medical infrastructure.

Curious Paul Jan 2 2 min read

#dohackathon #showdev #covid #webdev

@jasmin

Share your slack messages in the form of QR Code.

Jasmin Virdi Jan 3 2 min read

#dohackathon #javascript #node #webdev

All runners-up will receive:

• $200 USD gift card or equivalent
• $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop
• DigitalOcean Swag Pack
• DEV Sticker Pack
• DEV App Platform Hackathon runner-up profile badge

Participants

All participants with a valid project will receive a DEV Sticker Pack and an App Platform Hackathon participant profile badge.

To everyone who submitted a project for this hackathon, you should be super proud of yourselves. In the process of building your app, youve contributed to the DigitalOcean App Platform library and gained new experience with a professional tool.

The DigitalOcean team will follow up with each winner via email about their prizes, and the DEV team will do the same within two weeks.

Great work, everyone! We hope you had a blast participating in this challenge.