Back in August, we announced an exciting new challenge on DEV: the GitHub Actions Hackathon!

Participants were asked to create and document workflows that either leveraged existing GitHub Actions or made use of a new, custom action they built. These projects were filed under one of five categories: DIY Deployments, Maintainer Must-Haves, Phone-Friendly, Interesting IoT, or Wacky Wildcards.

You might have thought that the challenge here was in creating and leveraging actions, but the real challenge was for the judges. We were very impressed with the quality, creativity, and technicality of your projects, and selecting just a few Hackathon winners was extremely difficult!

After much deliberation between the DEV and GitHub teams, the final results are in!

Without further delay, let's meet our five grand prize winners and their awesome projects:

DIY Deployments:

A GitHub Action to Validate GraphQL Operations

Mandi Wise ・ Sep 8 '20

#actionshackathon #github #graphql

Maintainer Must-Haves:

More Eyes, Plz! Hackathon entry + update

Jeremy Ong ・ Aug 22 '20

#actionshackathon #help

Interesting IoT:

Phone Friendly:

Jazz up the code blocks in Github Issues

Mithun Kamath ・ Aug 19 '20

#actionshackathon #github #showdev #javascript

Wacky Wildcards:

Maybe this useless workflow isn’t so useless after all?

Thai Pangsakulyanont ・ Aug 27 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

All Grand Prize Winners will receive:

• $1,500 USD gift card or equivalent 🤑
• $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop 😎
• GitHub Swag Pack 🎁
• DEV Sticker Pack ✨
• DEV “Actions Hackathon” grand prize winner badge 🏆

Our Top 10 Runners-Up, in random order!

Build your ML models automatically using GitHub actions

haimantika mitra ・ Sep 10 '20

#actionshackathon

HandyVITA - Compiling PS Vita Homebrew with Github Actions

Francisco José García García ・ Sep 17 '20

#actionshackathon #emulation #psvita #vitasdk

Rick Astley is back!

Tejasv Sharma ・ Aug 20 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #showdev

P1: AppBrickie - Smart Github Action that delivers your app builds on Telegram!

Hemanth Krishna ・ Aug 31 '20

#actionshackathon #docker #showdev #android

Badge Action

emibcn ・ Sep 9 '20

#actionshackathon #javascript #react #serverless

Continuous Integration (CI) for JS apps - GitHub Actions workflow

Alba Silvente Fuentes ・ Aug 29 '20

#actionshackathon #javascript #github #vue

A Concierge workflow for Hacktoberfest using the Zeebe GitHub Action

Josh Wulf ・ Aug 24 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource #hacktoberfest

Noisy Build

Doug Parsons ・ Sep 14 '20

#actionshackathon

Github Workflow to change Smart Bulb color to RED on Pull Request

Vasu Jain ・ Sep 18 '20

#actionshackathon #github #opensource

All runners-up will receive:

• $250 USD gift card or equivalent 💰
• $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🌈
• GitHub Swag Pack 😎
• DEV Sticker Pack 💻
• DEV “Actions Hackathon” runner-up badge 🌟

Participants

All participants with a valid project will receive a DEV sticker pack and a DEV "Actions Hackathon" participant profile badge. 🎉

To everyone who submitted a project for the hackathon, fantastic job. By participating, you have helped to improve the GitHub Actions and open source ecosystem for everyone!

The GitHub team will follow up with each winner via email about their prizes, and the our team will do the same. Reminder that the DEV Team is on a company vacation this week so don't expect to hear from us until next week.

Thanks to all of you ❤️