Hack Devpost - The Hackathon - The Winners 
To kick off the new year, we challenged our community to develop innovative ideas that would make hackathons better for everyone. Over 1,300 Devposters from more than 72 countries/regions registered for the challenge and those that were able to submit projects blew us away with their creativity and ingenuity.
With over 200 submissions, our panel of judges had their work cut out for them, but after careful consideration, we are thrilled to announce the winning submissions!
Most Desirable
Devpost CLI
By Rico A. Beti
After participating in 12 Devpost hackathons, Rico built Devpost CLI— a concept for a Command Line Interface used to interact with Devpost.com to closely tie the information provided on Devpost (such as project name, description, instructions, images, etc.) with the code repository that is ultimately submitted. This reduces information duplication and allows hackathon participants to keep everything in one place (the true source of information).
Most Viable
The 2023 Devpost #3 - Courses
Iñigo designed an onsite feature tab for hackathon participants to have access to courses to learn hackathon skills relevant to their interests.
Most Readily Usable
Time Ranger
By Vishal Vats
Vishal built a functioning Chrome extension that allows users to quickly adjust dates on the Devpost site to match their local time zone. Time Ranger is available for you to try out and is capable of working on any modern web browser.
Community Choice Winners
Our community choice winners were selected by our very own Devpost community.
DEVHACK
By: Manswini P.S
Devhack includes some reimagined designs of the hackathon user interface experience including a new homepage, a category page to rank hackathons by difficulty, access to chat features, and much more!
metaHackathon(DEVPOST)
By: Tippi Fifestarr
A protocol for documenting and storytelling in and about hackathons with the goal of happier hackers!
Check out metaHackathon(Devpost)
DEVS
By: Suruchi Kumari
DEVS is an app that solves problems surrounding hackathon teams, such as diversity, team dynamics, and participation. DEVS not only took home the community choice award but was also selected as a best feedback submission winner by our judges! Through the feedback submission, Suruchi relayed the struggles developers face when it comes to understanding a hackathon theme and gave our judges some great insight to lessen that struggle.
“The hackathons in which I participated on Devpost have changed my life and my thinking about success that my family or my society had taught me from my childhood. Thanks, Devpost!” -Suruchi Kumari
Best Feedback Submissions
DevAdvent
By: Hong Tran
Hong provided the judges with great feedback surrounding documentation within hackathons to make it a simpler and more seamless experience for participants.
“The more detailed the training written documents are, the faster I am able to catch up and learn.” - Hong Tran
Coordination Problem: Why Spacing Out Hackathons Is A Must
Babatunde gave our judges some insight into how much he values what happens after a hackathon is over.
“One thing I love about some hackathons I have taken part in is how I have still been included in the "community" even though I didn't win a prize.” - Babatunde Onabajo
Pro-Level Hackathons & New Crypto Reward System
By: Mark Sean
Mark told our judges about some of the things he values the most when building out a project and learning a new technology.
“I think code examples and working demo projects are always the most important tool.” -Mark Sean
SpeakEase
By: Harrizuan Izadin
Harrizuan shared some challenges that arise between ideation and completion of a hackathon project due to time constraints.
“The key to a successful hackathon is to maximize the creativity and productivity of participants, and one way to do that is by streamlining the time-consuming aspects of the process.” - Harrizuan Izadin
Arushi's Feedback on Devpost!!
By: Arushi Gupta
Arushi gave our judges some great feedback surrounding the importance of clear and specific requirements in a hackathon.
“When the hackathon prompt is very open-ended like ‘Solve any problem of your choosing’ rather than a more specific prompt like ‘How can you make beauty more accessible?’. With the former prompt, I am stuck in an endless whirlpool of ideas which makes it really hard to choose a project idea.” - Arushi Gupta
CodeCloset
By: Ritika Thareja
Ritika emphasized the importance of the ideation and planning phase of a hackathon project, while not ignoring the challenges this stage brings. She provided our judges with ideas to help make this stage flow smoothly for hackathon participants.
“Provide participants with access to resources and tools that can help them generate and evaluate ideas more efficiently.” Ritika Thareja
Devpost 2.0
By: Danny Chavez
Danny provided some ideas to our judges to make it easier for developers to get the ball rolling with new technology in a hackathon.
“Provide useful reading resources such as case studies, tutorials, manuals, recommend a YouTube channel that provides quality content.” - Danny Chavez
Integrated brainstorming and project management
By: Haingo R
Haingo provided some solutions to minimize the stress and ease the submission process for users.
“Also, I once missed a submission because of time zone confusion: It would be very much appreciated if time zones are automatically converted to the one where a user is hacking from. It might be timesaving for hackathon participants.” -Haingo R.
Feedback Submission
By: Alisa Khieu
Alisa shared the value of having the ability to give sponsors feedback through the hackathon.
“I love hackathons that have a "feedback" submission category because I think that there are several useful learnings to be had from the "new user experience" of a developer trying to learn a company's new technology.” -Alisa Khieu
Devpost is committed to inspiring the world’s developers and with the help of the community, we’ll continue to do so. Thank you to all those that participated in Hack Devpost - The hackathon!