Today’s the day! We are excited to finally announce the winners of our 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge!
Thank you to everyone who participated, and for your patience while we read through and deliberated over each submission. We received lots of excellent posts and loved learning about each of your maintainer and contributor experiences.
We have selected two winners per prompt. Read on to see who they are, and then read on to learn about their experience this year!
Congratulations To…
Maintainer Prompt
@suryanshsingh2001 takes us through the ups and downs of creating and maintaining Mockly, a weekend project that’s now used by thousands of developers.
@jacksonkasi shares “the why” behind ImagePro, and how the project evolved from a solo endeavor to a team effort that was able to take on contributions for this year’s Hacktoberfest.
Contributor Prompt
@nabhel shares their experience as a designer contributing to open source for the very first time. This is an important read that really highlights the power of supportive communities.
@akashjana shares an energetic chronicle of their Hacktoberfest journey that spanned multiple projects, events, and sidequests!
Prizes
Our four winners will receive the following prizes:
- 6-month DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
- A gift from the DEV Shop
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Volunteer Judges
We want to thank our volunteer judges for contributing their feedback for this challenge! If you’re interested in judging future challenges, check out this post:
What’s next?
More challenges, of course!
- The AssemblyAI Challenge is happening now:
- DevCycle Feature Flag Challenge is launching November 27. Follow #devcyclechallenge so you don’t miss the announcement 😉
#devcyclechallenge
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge! We hope you had fun and feel accomplished. See you next time!
Top comments (21)
Great posts @akashjana, @nabhel, @suryanshsingh2001, @jacksonkasi! 👏 👏 👏
Thank you ✨
Thanks @jess .
Congratulations to all🥳
@nabhel @suryanshsingh2001 @jacksonkasi 👏
Same to you @akashjana . Loved the post.
Thanks for reading 💖
OMG, thank you so much
@jess I didn't receive a participation badge😢
Not sure what happened but we just awarded it to you manually!
I also did not receive mine :(
Thank you.
@jess I didn’t get any badges either, I also submitted as judge.
Thanks!
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profilebut I don't get itCongratulations @akashjana, @nabhel, @suryanshsingh2001, @jacksonkasi !
Wow, congrats to everyone @akashjana, @suryanshsingh2001, @jacksonkasi! 👏
Hello everyone, @akashjana, @nabhel, @suryanshsingh2001,
Congratulations to all of you! 🥳
Good work Akash
Thank you @ujj1225
Well done everyone! 👏
Congrats!