Over $3K worth of prizes and swag will be shared among our hackathon participants.

This one month hackathon will include live coding workshops, programming work sessions, and a lot of fun swag giveaways.

Build an open source project that demonstrates proper app-to-user notifications with the Courier API. We're excited to see what you build!

Courier Community Developer Award

New projects that demonstrate proper app-to-user notifications with the Courier API will receive a $20 Amazon gift card (check Rules for requirements).

Requirements

How to Get Started

What to Submit

  1. Tag #courier on your project submission
  2. Link to GitHub repo with code
  3. [New] For contributions to other open source projects, include description of what specifically your team added within project writeup.
  4. Short demo video (1-5 mins) of working project
  5. Optional: if deployed, a link to a working prototype

Community

  • Join the community to brainstorm ideas, meet teammates, and share your project updates
  • Tweet about your project with the hashtag #CourierHacks to be retweeted by the official Courier account

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$1,250 in prizes
Courier Hacks: Open Source Winner
1 winner

Best project that is open source, open to contributions from the developer community, includes clear documentation, and demonstrates proper app-to-user notifications with the Courier API will receive an Apple iPad Mini.

Security Experience
1 winner

Best project to integrate OAuth and require users to login will receive a $200 (USD) Amazon gift card.

Frontend Experience
1 winner

Project with the best frontend design and accessibility experience will receive a $200 (USD) Amazon gift card.

Automated Experience
1 winner

Best demonstration of how apps can help users automate their day-to-day processes. Can but does not need to use Automations API will receive a $200 (USD) Amazon gift card.

Twitter's Favorite
1 winner

Project most loved by the community will receive $100 (USD) Amazon gift card. Tweet about your project and the tweet with the most retweets wins. Must include project name, and tag #CourierHacks @trycourier in original tweet. Spam accounts and accounts with under 50 followers will not count towards retweets.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Shreya

Shreya
Developer Advocate, Courier

Prakhar Srivastav

Prakhar Srivastav
Senior Software Engineer, Google

Alexey Kankov

Alexey Kankov
Senior Backend Developer, Lokalise

Judging Criteria

  • Courier Integration
    Project successfully integrates the Courier API and demonstrates successful integration of API within 1-5 minute video demo. Project can send any type of messages via the Courier API.
  • Demo
    Submission includes a 1-5 minute video demonstration of the working project with screen-recording that includes: application sending message(s), user receiving message(s), same message(s) appearing in Courier data log. Video should be uncut.
  • Open Source
    Is either a contribution to an open source project (show pull request) OR is an open source project. In the second case, project must include instructions on how others can contribute in README.md file on GitHub and must have a license.
  • Creativity
    Project takes an original approach to a problem. Solution effectively alleviates, solves, or helps the problem it is designed to solve.
  • Design
    Design is accessible, well thought out, demonstrates smart design choices, and is user-friendly.

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