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Huge congrats to @mzee04 for the Overall win, and to every featured and partner category winner. The range this week was wonderful, from a tiny AI keeping a diary to ghost stories mapped across Ireland.
Thank you to the DEV Team and all the partners for hosting such a creative month. This was my first Hacktoberfest challenge series, and building Ghost Tales taught me a lot about open-source AI. I'm off to read the winning entries and learn from them.
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Thank you so much, Jem, and thanks to the whole DEV team! Linkmortem was built in five intense days, and seeing it recognized for MongoDB Atlas means a lot to me. Congrats to all the other winners! ππ
A Software Engineer who strongly believes one can add immense value by knowingly implementing Software Engineering best practices, even at the age of AI.
Civic technologist building AI tools that help systems explain themselves. Clew Suite builder, NACM 2026 speaker. I write about hackathons, product judgment, agent readiness, and learning in public.
Sincere congratulations to all who won!!!
While I'm happy for them, I would also like to at least get some feedback from the process on my submission (Tributary - A Yahoo Pipes + Google Reader combo) as to why it didn't make it through the process and what and where exactly i can do better next time. Would really really appreciate this feedback, from the judge(s) on this, @heyitsjem . Of course, my inbox remains open for this feedback, as well as other opportunities in future: ekomjahedet@gmail.com. Once again, congratulations to the winners!!!
The obsession with wrapping remote APIs into multi-layered agent abstractions is creating massive hidden latency and failure cascades in production.
If you profile real-world workloads, bare-metal local inference (via direct C++ / llama.cpp or vLLM bindings) consistently beats fragile cloud wrappers on both predictability and cost. Tooling should eliminate abstraction penalties, not compound them.
Hey, I'm Hema π
Developer, writer, and creator of Dev Opportunity Radar, a weekly series published every Friday on DEV, helping people discover opportunities they might otherwise miss.
AI testing storyteller. Writing the 36 Stratagems series β ancient Chinese military tactics meet modern AI system meltdowns. 16yr QA β building AI test framework.
Congratulations to our Overall winner, @mzee04! π
And a huge congrats to our featured category winners: @srgcy (Render), @malbolged (TabPFN), @derbyps (Tinker), @abhinavkrishna3211 (Arduino), @tanmaygajjar26 (DigitalOcean) and @tushar_shah (Gemma)! π
Thank you all for closing out Hacktoberfest with such haunting builds. πͺ¦
Thank you so much, Jem and the DEV team! Writing that diary experiment was one of the most fun builds I've done. Huge congrats to @srgcy, @malbolged, @derbyps, @abhinavkrishna3211, @tanmaygajjar26 and @tushar_shah, and I'm off to read all your entries now! π»
Thanks and cheers to all the folks
Congrats @mzee04, @srgcy, @malbolged, @derbyps, @abhinavkrishna3211, @tanmaygajjar26 and @tushar_shah! Well deserved, everyone! πβ€οΈ
Thanks and cheers to rest all
Congratulations to all the winners! π
Huge congrats to @mzee04 for the Overall win, and to every featured and partner category winner. The range this week was wonderful, from a tiny AI keeping a diary to ghost stories mapped across Ireland.
Thank you to the DEV Team and all the partners for hosting such a creative month. This was my first Hacktoberfest challenge series, and building Ghost Tales taught me a lot about open-source AI. I'm off to read the winning entries and learn from them.
See you in the next challenge! π»
Thanks man! I appreciate it!
Congrats to the final week of HacktoberFest!
Good work all of you!
Congrats to all the winners!! πΈπ
Congrats to our partner category winners! ππ»
@bin4yi (Auth0 for AI Agents), @vrranjith (Backboard), @ronaksarda (Browserbase), @finallyjay (ElevenLabs), @thy_orion (Entire), @emarc99 (GitHub Copilot) and @hongpengtan0max (Mastra), amazing work!
Thanks to the awesome DEV team for hosting the fest and challenges!
Thank you soo very much team π«‘π«‘π«‘
Wow, thank you so much! This is such a nice surprise! π
Congrats @bin4yi, @vrranjith, @ronaksarda, @finallyjay, @thy_orion, @emarc99, @hongpengtan0max, @carlosjcastrog, @bladeharper_ec7070d6e28be and @kakeroth! πβ€οΈ
Thank you so much!! π
More partner category winners to celebrate! ππΌ
@carlosjcastrog (MongoDB Atlas), @bladeharper_ec7070d6e28be (Sentry Agent Tracing), @kakeroth (SerpApi), @mohamedaminehamdi (Temporal), @workstationritalks (Tiger Data), @kourtneylee1611 (Ultramarine) and @samarth_kumble_a91ad88634 (.tech Domain), congratulations!
Thank you so much, Jem, and thanks to the whole DEV team! Linkmortem was built in five intense days, and seeing it recognized for MongoDB Atlas means a lot to me. Congrats to all the other winners! ππ
Wow, thank you so much to the DEV team and the sponsors! And congratulations to all the winners!
Congratulations all, great run!
Congrats all the winners π
and best wishes to all those who participated π₯°
Congrats @mohamedaminehamdi, @workstationritalks, @kourtneylee1611 and @samarth_kumble_a91ad88634! πβ€οΈ
Congratulations to all the winners π
Wow, on these entries! So creative. I appreciate all of the talented builders here. They're inspiring. Contracts to all of the winners @mzee04, @srgcy, @malbolged, @derbyps, @abhinavkrishna3211, @tanmaygajjar26 and @tushar_shah !
Thanks and cheers to all
Thanks and congrats to each and everyone who achieved this!
Congratulations to all the winners ππ
Sincere congratulations to all who won!!!
While I'm happy for them, I would also like to at least get some feedback from the process on my submission (Tributary - A Yahoo Pipes + Google Reader combo) as to why it didn't make it through the process and what and where exactly i can do better next time. Would really really appreciate this feedback, from the judge(s) on this, @heyitsjem . Of course, my inbox remains open for this feedback, as well as other opportunities in future:
ekomjahedet@gmail.com. Once again, congratulations to the winners!!!Congratulations all! amazing
atleast i wanna win once, please god! @heyitsjem π
The obsession with wrapping remote APIs into multi-layered agent abstractions is creating massive hidden latency and failure cascades in production.
If you profile real-world workloads, bare-metal local inference (via direct C++ / llama.cpp or vLLM bindings) consistently beats fragile cloud wrappers on both predictability and cost. Tooling should eliminate abstraction penalties, not compound them.
Congratulations! π
Huge congrats to all the winners! Such a creative idea! ππ
Congratulations to all winnersππ
They said all participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge. Any idea when and how can we get it
Congratulations to all hard working Winner's ποΈ Nice work!!!
Big congrats to all the winners π
Congratulations all