Open Source Hackathon Winners

Summary

Supabase announced the winners and runners-up for its inaugural open-source hackathon after concluding deliberations across a larger-than-expected pool of entries. Top entries included Work From, an employee schedule tracking application, and Fireplace, a video streaming platform that leverages Supabase Storage to synchronize playback events across multiple viewers. Additional recognized projects encompassed Feature.so for modular application component management, Flutter Add-ons for telemetry and crash reporting, and Peckish Peach, which uses machine learning to generate recipes from input ingredients. All submitted projects remain fully open source for community inspection, contribution, and forking. Gold and silver prize winners receive custom limited-edition Supabase apparel, while every hackathon participant receives a participation prize.

Context

Supabase concluded its first open-source hackathon, which received a larger number of entries than anticipated.

Approach / What changed

The judging panel evaluated open-source submissions built over a one-week period across multiple categories, selecting winners and runners-up based on design, functionality, and use of Supabase features such as Supabase Storage.

Takeaways

• Fireplace utilized Supabase Storage to power a synchronized video streaming tool capable of sharing play, pause, and skip controls across users.
• Flutter Add-ons integrated with Supabase credentials and Flutter applications to collect and visualize metrics, analytics, and crash reporting data in a dashboard.
• All submissions from the hackathon were made publicly open source, permitting developers to fork repositories and submit pull requests.

Related reading

• Supabase · Oct 14, 2021

  Hacktoberfest Hackathon Winners 2021

  The organizers of the second open-source Hacktoberfest Hackathon announced the top ten projects across five distinct categories, selecting a winner and runner-up for each. Awarded projects include Pickle, a privacy-focused developer analytics service featuring realtime event synchronization, and CourseBuddy, a collaborative study platform for students. Other winning entries encompass the Feedback widget for sentiment collection, a utility management Flutter application, and Spookd, a Halloween-themed game built with Framer and connected to Supabase. Runner-up projects feature tools such as og:supa for generating Open Graph preview images, Relm for community management, Party Parrot as a Service, the TLWR path logger for Flutter, and the uwudaily mood-logging website. All winners receive custom gold medal shirts, runners-up receive silver medal shirts, and every participant receives a limited-edition participation tee.

  Thor Schaeff

• Supabase · Sep 28, 2021

  Supabase Hacktoberfest Hackathon 2021