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 DigitalOcean’s 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. We’re 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 '21

#dohackathon #showdev #webdev #vue

Program for the People: @jcsmileyjr

Building a mental health crisis app, Final Day.

JC Smiley ・ Jan 10 '21

#dohackathon #codepen #mentalhealth

Built for Business: @guild

Random Roulette: @dawntraoz

Final submission for DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon

Alba Silvente Fuentes ・ Dec 23 '20

#dohackathon #potatizer #nuxt #tailwindcss

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 DigitalOcean’s CEO, Yancey Spruill 👋

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

@anabella

Emoji traffic jam generator!

anabella ・ Jan 9 '21

#dohackathon #emoji #art #generativeart

@shiftyp

Space Themed Site with Mini Game!

Ryan Kahn (he/him) ・ Dec 19 '20

#dohackathon #webdev #javascript

@ameysunu

Alleviate - DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon

Amey Sunu ・ Jan 9 '21

#dohackathon #flutter #docker #showdev

@neilblaze

Who-of-us? — Find else he'll escape 😉

Pratyay Banerjee ・ Jan 10 '21

#dohackathon #gamedev #phaserjs #showdev

@stephjs

Building a Sunday scaries Messaging Service

Steph ・ Jan 11 '21

#dohackathon #aws #node #lol

@circa10a

The mcbroken dashboard - digitalocean hackathon entry

Caleb Lemoine ・ Dec 21 '20

#dohackathon #monitoring #showdev #cloud

@shriji

Final Submission: Dev to Sapper

Shriji ・ Jan 10 '21

#dohackathon #svelte #sapper

@abidishajia

Jobamatic - Automate your job search

Shajia Abidi ・ Jan 10 '21

#dohackathon

@curiouspaul1

Coveed: Help to mitigate stress on the medical infrastructure.

Curious Paul ・ Jan 2 '21

#dohackathon #showdev #covid #webdev

@jasmin

Share your slack messages in the form of QR Code.

Jasmin Virdi ・ Jan 3 '21

#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, you’ve 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. ❤️