Over 4,500 makers from 124 different countries participated in the Product Hunt Global Hackathon this November, competing for $250,000 in prizes. According to the judges, the results were seriously impressive.
Today weāre excited to announce the 10 winning teams across 6Ā categories: Blockchain/Crypto, Social Impact, AI/Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Slack, and Google Assistant ā in addition to the 3 grand prize winners.
Category Winners
š° Blockchain/Crypto:Ā SupermaxĀ
š Social Impact:Ā Donate Your Website andĀ Sempo
š AI / Machine Learning:Ā Audify
š® Augmented Reality:Ā Scavengar
šĀ Slack: Klue
š£ Google Assistant: Autometa
You can read a detailed breakdown of each of the categories and the winning teams inĀ Winners of the Product Hunt Global Hackathon announcement on Medium.
Grand Prize Winners
š„ 3rd Place:Ā Kenza is a plug and play application for data scientists and developers to quickly build, train, and deploy ML models at scale.Ā The entire judging team was impressed by how easy this service is to use compared to existingĀ solutions.
Thanks to our partners, the Kenza team will receive $15,000 in AWS credits, a Global Classroom Course from Girls in Tech, and access to Stripe Atlas. Congratulations to Pavlos, Alex, Thelxi, and Joakim!
š„ 2nd Place:Ā SweetBud is a magical coffee cup lid that makes any coffee taste sweet using electrical currents to stimulate your tongue.Ā The entire team was impressed by the uniqueness of this solution and the amount of progress made in just a month.
Sierra and SimonĀ will receive $25,000 in AWS credits, a Global Classroom Course from Girls in Tech, and access to Stripe Atlas.
š„ 1st Place:Ā Token Tax files all of your cryptocurrency taxes for you, integrating directly with Coinbaseās API to import all of your investments and export a single PDF that you can submit directly to the IRS.
Huge congratulations to our top winners, David and Alex. Theyāll receive a $100,000 in AWS credits to pursue Token Tax (or any other project youād like), a fully-inclusive trip to TechCrunch Disrupt, a Global Classroom Course from Girls in Tech, and access to Stripe Atlas. š
With hundreds of submissions from around the world, we wanted to recognize other notable products that caught our eye. Scroll down to the end, and seeĀ someĀ seriously impressive projectsĀ hackathon participants have worked on. š
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