Welcome to the first-ever DEV contest! Organizing an event like this is something we’ve been wanting to do for a while and we’re super excited to be teaming up with Pusher, our first platinum sponsor. They’ve been wonderful partners so far. In fact, we use the Pusher Channels API to support the dev.to live chat (if you’ve been to one of our workshops, you’ll know what I mean). They truly make the process of building real-time apps seamless and we’re excited to see what you can do with their technology.

The theme of this contest is to create a real-time app or a hack that uses Pusher Channels real-time API. To get started developing apps with Pusher Channels, you can check out the tutorials section on Pusher.com. We’re not looking for super polished/scalable/backwards-compatible submissions but we are looking for projects that work. Judging will be based on how innovative/fun/clever/useful your idea is and how well you’ve executed said idea. Bonus points for documentation in the form of dev.to posts 😛

There will be two grand prize winners -- the community grand prize winner and the panel grand prize winner. The community grand prize winner will be selected based on the community’s reaction, (highest number of hearts and unicorns ❤️ 🦄) and the panel grand prize winner will be selected by the DEV and Pusher teams. We’ll also be giving away prizes to ten runner-ups.

How to submit a project 📨

All projects need to be submitted to dev.to by May, 25, 2018 at 11:59 pm EDT. You can submit your project by creating a submission post -- please use this template. In the post, you will include:

• Link to live project demo
• Link to code
• Description of how you built the project
• Links to additional posts you may have written along the way to document your progress

How to vote for your favorite project ⭐️

Even if you don’t submit a project, we hope you check out all the cool things the community is building and vote on your favorite! Your vote has a direct impact on who receives the community grand prize.

Prizing 🎁

Community Grand Prize (1)

• $1000 towards any Udacity nanodegree program
• $500 gift card to Adafruit
• $400 for an annual Safari Books Online membership
• $250 Coupon to the DEV Shop
• Pusher Swag
• A DEV Badge 😉

Panel Grand Prize (1)

• $500 towards any Udacity nanodegree program
• $500 gift card to Adafruit
• $250 Coupon to the DEV Shop
• Pusher Swag
• A DEV Badge 😉

Runner-Up Prize (10)

• $50 gift card to Adafruit
• $50 Coupon to the DEV Shop
• Pusher Swag
• A DEV Badge 😉

Important Dates 🗓

05/01: Start Hacking!
05/25: Submit your project by 12pm EST
05/31: Winners announced!