Launch Week 5 Hackathon Winners

Summary

Supabase announces the winners of its Launch Week 5 Hackathon, which received 46 project submissions and was described as the most popular hackathon yet. The awards recognized Supabase Cache Helpers as Best Overall for a caching utility that turns Supabase queries into cache keys and provides methods to retrieve and mutate database data, while Super UI was runner-up with a customizable React component library. Other category winners included Hop, a Tinder-like job board; Otentik Authenticator, a desktop app for managing two-step verification tokens; That Hot Dog Game, which uses facial recognition to detect eating; Quid Faciam Hodie?, a video journaling app; and RepoWatch, which shows Supabase GitHub organization updates in realtime. Winning team members receive limited-edition golden Supabase caps, runners-up receive silver caps, and all submissions are available on madewithsupabase.com.

Takeaways

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   Supabase Cache Helpers won Best Overall Project with a library that derives cache keys from Supabase queries and supports retrieving and mutating database data.

2. 2

   Otentik Authenticator won Most Technically Impressive Project as a desktop app for managing two-step verification tokens during online-service logins.

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   RepoWatch won Best Realtime Project by showing updates across repositories in the Supabase GitHub organization in realtime.