Hey there, PH Community! 👋 I'm Natasha, and I'm proud to introduce to you, officially, today: the second annual Noonies! These tech industry awards are entirely community-driven, and are Hacker Noon's way of recognizing and rewarding the makers, builders, and creators making the internet a better place to hang out today. 🤓 There are OVER 200 Tech Industry Awards (and prizes!) up for grabs this year, including: TOP PROGRAMMING GURU: Thank you to .TECH Domains for this award's prizes, which include: a $ 3000 Cash Prize + a Free 10-yr domain for the winner. MOST OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR IN TECH: Shoutout to Skillsoft for this award's prizes and the prize for Hacker Noon Contributor of the Year - WOMEN IN TECH, which both include 1 Year FREE Access to Percipio to the Winner. BEST WEB MONETIZATION INNOVATOR: A huge thanks to Grant for the Web for this award's prize, as well the prizes for BEST WEB MONETIZED DIGITAL ARTIST and BEST WEB MONETIZED BLOGGER, which ALL include: a $1000 award for the eventual winner (!!!) The Winners of ALL Noonies Awards will receive a 5 year standard registration for a .tech domain. The 1st and 2nd runner-ups get a standard .TECH domains for 3 yrs and 1 yrs respectively. As of now: YOU HAVE THE REST OF TODAY to hack winning an award for your or somebody else's contribution to tech this year. Submit Nominations (until Aug 12) and VOTE (after Aug 13) at NOONIES.TECH today! 🚀

I was nominated last year in the Product Manager category. Had a great time doing shameless plugs participating in the Noonies, but also finding peers to follow their work and have a peak on what they are working on. Was flattered to be considered along side of such great product peeps such as @johncutler @joshelman @hnshah and many others who I did not know about. Looking forward to this years event :D

Really enjoyed being part of the Hacker Noon publication contributors and tech communities! I've made a lot of like-minded product/founder friends because of your platform! All the best :)

Hey @ccossio @ohsik @whizzzoe thanks for the support! The first thousands of votes were cast yesterday @ https://noonies.tech. Unfortunately Product Hunt 4.0 decided to add < content="noindex, nofollow"/ > to this page yesterday morning, unlisting us from their site and Google :-( I asked them about this, and they said it was because this was an Event, and I was like, 'You're an Event!!!' but in a kind tone. They did tweet about it today: https://twitter.com/ProductHunt/... so maybe they realize this was a mistake. Last years The Noonies did not receive this treatment because it's a product built from scratch. This year's Noonies is a much, much better product. As is the way when making most 2.0s, more code was deleted than added. It's less total lines of code now - probably because @stormfarrell is a better developer than he was last year! This product is built with React, Apollo, Next.js, Vercel, GraphQL, Prisma, Font Awesome, and it integrates with our custom content management system that powers https://hackernoon.com. We added Google login, a shit ton of voting security issues, weighted voting, a new tagging system coupled with recommending related awards, individual award sponsors (https://noonies.tech/sponsor), a dope admin dashboard, and bunch more stuff to our custom voting software: https://noonies.tech Curation is difficult, especially when people are always trying to game your site. I don't have any hard feelings. But it would be nice for this page to not be < content="noindex, nofollow"/ > TL;DR Here's the FAQ https://noonies.tech/faq and visit https://noonies.tech/ to reward an internet maker. As New York Times writer Taylor Lorenz tweeted, "Finally nominated for my first award!" https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz...

I love Hackernoon! Good luck on your launch :)