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title: "Launch Week 5 Hackathon Winners"
description: "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."
---

# Launch Week 5 Hackathon Winners

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · tyler\_shukert · Aug 25, 2022

**Type:** Announcement

## 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.

## Context

The Launch Week 5 Hackathon received 46 submitted projects, making it the most popular hackathon yet, and the organizers reviewed the submissions to select winners and runners-up across several categories.

## Takeaways

- Supabase Cache Helpers won Best Overall Project with a library that derives cache keys from Supabase queries and supports retrieving and mutating database data.
- Otentik Authenticator won Most Technically Impressive Project as a desktop app for managing two-step verification tokens during online-service logins.
- RepoWatch won Best Realtime Project by showing updates across repositories in the Supabase GitHub organization in realtime.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [Caching](https://yomu.fyi/topic/caching), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source)

- Source: [Supabase](https://supabase.com/blog/launch-week-5-hackathon-winners)
- Source URL: https://supabase.com/blog/launch-week-5-hackathon-winners
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-08-29T00:00:52.314Z

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