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We organized our first DEV Challenge back in March, and are solidifying our commitment to bringing more challenges to the community with today's product hunt launch! DEV Challenges are mini-hackathons that come in many different forms -- some are simple writing prompts, some flex your creativity and encourage you to show off your personality, and some are full fledged apps with complex requirements. Example domain areas include artificial intelligence, frontend development, computer science, API integrations, and more! Most challenges run for just under two weeks but we'll occasionally offer a longer timeline when there is more at stake. Right now, we're in the middle of the Build Better on Stellar: Smart Contract Challenge that's all about helping web developers get into web3, blockchain, and decentralized finance. It's a great learning opportunity with equally great rewards -- a $50,000 cash prize pool and a trip to London to be exact. We also launched the Nylas AI and Communications Challenge yesterday that has a big emphasis on creativity and $3,000 prize pool. Please check them both out! Our main goal for DEV Challenges is for participants to walk away with new knowledge, and hopefully, a statement piece to add to their professional profile (be it on DEV on otherwise). Of course, there is also oftentimes the opportunity to win cash prizes too (like in the Stellar Challenge). If you've participated in a DEV Challenge before, we'd love to hear your thoughts -- especially if there are new domains and tools you'd like to build with or write about. Please let us know how we can improve the challenge experience! Thank you to everyone who checked out our launch today.

It's really been awesome to see what folks come up with each time. Shout out to *the first* winner of the CSS Art challenge https://dev.to/floscode/the-fron... If you haven't participated yet, please join DEV and keep an eye out.

These have been such a great way to highlight the creativity and ingenuity of the community while providing ways to explore new products and offerings from companies in the developer space. A big thank you to some of our early partners, especially Cloudflare, Twilio, Wix, Coze, Netlify, AWS, and our first Diamond sponsor 💎 Neon