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Congrats to the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady Winners!

Jem on October 30, 2026

The results are in for Week 3 of our five Hacktoberfest DEV Challenges! For Slow and Steady, we asked you to channel your inner sloth and build som...
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Jem The DEV Team • • Edited

And congratulations to our partner category winners! 🦥🎉 (part 1: I can only tag 10 people at a time)

Best Use of Auth0 for AI Agents: @aridiosilva
Best Use of Backboard: @jenniferevangelistade
Best Use of Browserbase: @aarishmansur
Best Use of ElevenLabs: @nikema
Best Use of Entire: @cadets_atease
Best Use of GitHub Copilot: @dj29
Best Use of Mastra: @daniel_ng
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas: @sea_deep
Best Use of Sentry Agent Tracing: @finallyjay
Best Use of SerpApi: @dhananjayachamod0754

We'll be in touch about your prizes soon. ✨

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Jose Antonio Granero •

Thank you so much! 🙌🙌

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Jennifer Evangelista •

Thanks :)

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daniel •

@heyitsjem

I think there is something wrong with the best use of mastra badge on the platform. It shows MongoDB instead

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Jem The DEV Team •

Hey, thanks for bringing this up. I uploaded the correct Mastra image and the badge itself is fixed, but your profile is still showing a cached older version. It should update on its own within the next couple of days. If it's still showing MongoDB after that, let us know and I'll take another look. Congrats again!

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Jem The DEV Team •

Congratulations to our Overall and featured category winners! 🦥🎉

Overall Winner: @hotragn
Best Use of Render: @zedaina
Best Use of TabPFN: @elias-shieh
Best Use of Tinker: @advikdivekar
Best Use of Arduino: @muhammadmurtuzahussain
Best Use of DigitalOcean: @nikithakls17sys
Best Use of Gemma: @samarth_kumble_a91ad88634

We'll be in touch about your prizes soon. ✨

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Samarth Kumble •

Thank you jem!

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Muhammad Murtuza Hussain •

Thank you so much Jem, 😄

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥 •

Congratulations 🎉

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Muhammad Murtuza Hussain •

Thank you so much!

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Jem The DEV Team •

Congratulations to our partner category winners! 🦥🎉 (part 2)

Best Use of Temporal: @kavya_sharma_26d762f34a29
Best Use of Tiger Data: @codewithveek
Best Use of Ultramarine: @himanshu_748
Best Use of a .tech Domain: @nirajkhetre

We'll be in touch about your prizes soon. ✨

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Jessica Doering •

Congratulations winners! Amazing projects from everyone!

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Aarish mansur •

damn this is my first win and thanks you dev Team 😁

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Jennifer Evangelista •

What great news! I'm so happy! Finally, a notification better than "Build succeeded"! 😄

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🎓 Navid Ishaq •

Congratulations to all the winners! 🎉👏 Lazy Scholar especially impressed me — such a simple yet powerful idea, turning AI into a real problem-solving assistant. Truly inspiring work! 🚀❤️

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Ekomjah Denis •

Congratulations to all the winners and participants. The ideas that week were bountiful

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Sohee Lee •

Congrats to all the winners 🎉👏 Every project is amazing! I'm learning so much from everyone who took part in this challenge!!

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Fayaz •

Congrats to all the winners 🏆
and 🥰 to all the participants!

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Classified •

when will i ever win

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Abhisek Roy • • Edited

congratulations to all but me thinking when my time will come Check this one and share review link