Kind of like game jams, but websites. You just make a webjam, add a description, title, etc.
And people have to submit websites they made for the webjam.
The one with the best website, wins.
Voted. Sounds fun.
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I call em Jams. And hey, can’t you just DM a user (hehe @khalby786) and compete with each other? Might lead to spam if there were a category, and anyone could post one.
Yup, we’re currently having a competition GlitchyPastePen x Learn-Code Ultimate Showdown in our DMs.
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And I’m busy trying to use sweetalert for everything now.
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My idea was that Glitch could make a page (e.g. glitch.com/hackathon) where you have flipclock that counts down for about 2 days and an option to make a new project. The project you create there is a normal Glitch project with the normal template, but the same flipclock is on the editor and when the time runs out you can’t edit the project anymore. These projects get added to a ‘hackathon’ collection. Then all the projects get judged by a panel (e.g. @anildash, @jenn, etc.) and the winner gets free Boosted Apps for a few months or an Amazon Gift Card. There you go - virtual hackathon, hosted by Glitch! Get a few sponsors and you’ll be ready to go!
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Kind of reminds me of repl.it competitions, last time I heard they did a make your own programming language contest where the winner would get a grant of $10,000 iirc
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this sounds really cool!! we’ve voted!
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You have my vote. Seeing an official Glitch hackathon with be great.
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This idea was actually inspired from itch.io
Thanks for that link! Now I finally see a way to get reven…never mind, that’s off topic and none of anyone’s business…but…
THANK YOU SO MUCH, @no_one!!
And I can’t wait to see a website competition, here on Glitch! I might participate!
I’d love to host an unofficial one.
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My idea is actually for people to host their own webjams, tough.
However, you can actually just make a website where you can submit your website for a contest.
Fine, let’s shut down this idea (and replace with something else) because I might make an event like thing just for this.
well you can’t make it if the rest of Glitch doesn’t even agree to something like this…we need them to say “Yes, you can do this” otherwise we’ll all get into trouble and bad things will happen to us.
Might just link this here:
https://support.glitch.com/t/unofficial-glitch-project-contest/34668
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Why did you ping staff?
Maybe it was an accident?
How could I manage ping @ anil dash (oh my gosh) and type that much.
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Maybe he forgot that you should not ping staff members because people forget things? Just a thought.
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According to the guidance on this forum, all it says is that:
And that you should use the help centre to actually get support. Nowhere does it say you can’t ping staff, it’s just pointless. Except in my case where I am not asking for support but instead sharing an idea/thought for a community event. I can ping Anil Dash on Twitter, so why not here? Furthermore, @code-alt, if you have an issue with one of my posts, or anyone else’s here, please DM the user to discuss the issue. There’s no need to make a public fuss about it, Otherwise, people just get off topic
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is this ever going to happen?
probably not
But i’d love to see it happen.
I think my vote button is broken lol
It shows I’ve voted but the button does not say “voted”
so would everyone else…
Hard refresh XD
Just so you know, I’m not voting for this. We have hackathons, hosted by others. (it’s not a webjam, that would throw away a bunch of people.) And just so you know Glitch officially supports just javascript (node) so I doubt that this will ever actually happen.
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Hi there! So this is something I was hoping to do last year, but some other priorities got ahead of that. If we were to introduce coding jams this year, I’m curious as to what themes/topics y’all would love to see!
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I myself have been to 2 “coding competition-ey” events:
- Coolest Projects (Raspberry Pi Foundation coolestprojects.org) is an extremely popular coding competition event in different places such as the UK (Manchester), USA (California) and International (Dublin). This year they did an online version. Coolest Projects works in categories (i.e. Hardware, Scratch, Mobile Apps, Web, Games (excluding Scratch), and Advanced Programming) and people can enter whatever they want as long as they fit. It’s pretty cool! Get it? CP is more of a showcase.
- HackJR MCR (HAC100 hac100.com) is the child of HAC100, a Manchester-based hackathon, for the youth. Both the main and junior versions work in the same way – sponsors (e.g. Clockwork SMS, Co-op Digital, Zen Internet, etc.) give a brief or challenge (e.g. this one by the Co-op “How would you encourage people of a similar age to you, to get together to do some good in your local area?” or this one by Clockwork SMS “9.8% of adults in Greater Manchester have a long-term health condition or disability that significantly impairs their everyday lives. Using our incredibly easy API, find a way that SMS can be used to improve the lives of people suffering from such conditions.”) This is all great since the companies that set challenges give the prices for the winning team/person. Unfortunately, HAC100 closed in 2020 because… well, you can probably guess. I think it’d be really cool to carry on what they started, but on a much larger scale.
I think the HAC100 model will work the best, as we could get some really innovative projects to arise because of it.
What do you think @jenn? You could get different companies involved if they are up for it and they can provide challenges and prices (e.g. premium plans, gift cards, etc.) I think that’d be really cool!
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That’s not what the idea is, tough.
The webjams should be made by actual glitch users, not companies.
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Does Hacktoberfest count?