Launch Week 6 Hackathon Winners

Summary

Supabase announced the winners of its sixth hackathon, held during Launch Week 6 after ending 2022 with many feature releases. Projects were judged across categories including Best Overall, Most Fun/Interesting, Best Flutter, Best Storage, and Best Edge Functions, with Deno participating in judging the edge category. Depulso, a CLI and web app for static site deployments with per-deployment .depulso.site subdomains and SSL, won Best Overall, while Supa SQL App was runner-up for converting human language into SQL queries. Other winners included HTTP Sense, a reverse proxy and network monitoring tool; supaquiz, a realtime multiplayer trivia game; Lookout, a metadata-based image discovery app; and Vista, a video transcoder that adds customizable subtitles from audio. Winners received keyboards or swag, and a Discord event was scheduled for January 5 at 7:00 AM PST.

Takeaways

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   Vista won Best Edge Functions for a video transcoder that adds subtitles from audio, with customizable subtitle designs; Supa Que was the runner-up and is a serverless queue worker.

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   Lookout won Best Storage by enabling image discovery through metadata, image content, and textual data found inside images. Penelope AI was the runner-up with writing-assistance features including summarization and paraphrasing.

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   The listed follow-up resources include guides for supabase-js v2, Supabase Storage, Flutter, local CLI development, and Edge Functions.