Hello Developers! The Round 2 winners of The Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest are announced!
For those hearing about it for the first time, here's some context: HackerNoon and Elastic Path have organized the Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest. You can win from an impressive $12,000 prize pool by writing on web development or ecommerce. We've now entered the final round. Share your story today!
Check out this prompt to write a story on #web-development.
To write a story on #ecommerce, feel free to use this prompt.
Round 2 Nominations
For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the #web-development and Ecommerce tags on HackerNoon, published in round 2. Then we chose the top stories using a 60:30:10 weightage ratio for:
- Number of hours read
- The number of people reached
- The freshness of the content
#Web-Development: Top 10 Stories
- How Coding Education Prepares Kids for Life – Not Just Careers by @lomitpatel
- Celebrating Women in STEM and Encouraging the Next Generation by @lomitpatel
- 32 Awesome JavaScript Snippets (one-liners) You Should Use in 2023 by @RAHULISM
- GIT: Explained in 5 Levels of Difficulty by @mcsee
- How To Customize an OpenAI Chatbot With Embedding by @hacker7182015
- The Lazy Programmer's Guide to Maintaining a Personal Website by @judicodes
- How to Keep Your Code SOLID by @oxymoron_31
- How to Become a Blockchain Developer: How These 10 Pros Did It by @emmmanuelnwaka
- The Only API You Need! by @lukaszwronski
- How I Built (and Sold) an AI-Powered Gift Idea Generator by @simonblogs
#Ecommerce: Top 10 Stories
- Sustainability in Ecommerce: What Are The Possibilities? by @juxtathinka
- How AI and Machine Learning are Reshaping SaaS FinTech by @eliaspeak
- Amazon's Entry Into the NFT Market: Implications and Challenges by @lavaniya
- APIs to Foster Loyalty in Your Customers by @alexolson
- How to Use Intent-Based Promotions to Drive E-commerce Revenue by @maxikuznetsov
- Innovation in The Yachting Industry: What to Build in a Not-So-Known Industry by @notarseniy
- Why Retail Stores Are More Vulnerable Than Ever to Cybercrime by @howierobleza
- The Future of Retail: The Convergence of Physical and Online Stores by @michealchukwube
- Shoppable Videos: The Untapped Market for Video Commerce? by @techsis
- Cross-selling in eCommerce Matters: A Technical Guide for Upselling Online by @sasha754
Round 2 Winners
To select the winners, we ran internal polls on the top 10 nominations. Our editors weighed in, and here are the final results.
#Web-Development Writing Contest Winners
In the first place, we have:
https://hackernoon.com/how-i-built-and-sold-an-ai-powered-gift-idea-generator?embedable=true
My idea was simple:
- Capture data about someone. Enough to get a sense of who they were.
- Use that data to generate a dynamic prompt using GPT-3’s natural language engine.
- Interpret the result and display it using Bubble.
- Link the result text to a product on Amazon/anywhere.
- Show the results as a “Comparison” page at the end of the process.
Congratulations @simonblogs! You have won $1000!
The second position is won by:
https://hackernoon.com/git-explained-in-5-levels-of-difficulty?embedable=true
GIT is like a magic notebook where you can write down all the changes you make to your computer projects.
Do you know when you draw a picture, and you can't erase it or make it like before?
Sometimes, when we work on big projects, we also want to go back and see the older versions of our pictures.
@mcsee has won $600!
In the third place, we have:
https://hackernoon.com/the-lazy-programmers-guide-to-maintaining-a-personal-website?embedable=true
In the following, we will therefore take a look at how to build and maintain a personal website with minimal effort in 10 easy steps. Because, while we may love coding, we also love time away from the computer. 🌳🤸🍝
Congratulations on winning $400, @judicodes!
#Ecommerce Writing Contest Winners
The first position is won by:
This is a basic collaborative filtering recommender system that combines user-based and item-based approaches and can be used in a variety of e-commerce projects, particularly those with a large number of SKUs, to provide a wide range of recommendations.
Congratulations, @sasha754! You have won $500!
In the second place, we have:
https://hackernoon.com/amazons-entry-into-the-nft-market-implications-and-challenges?embedable=true
While the move is exciting for the NFT market, there are several challenges that Amazon will need to overcome, including volatility, competition, and regulatory concerns.
Yay, @lavaniya! you have won $300!
The third position is won by:
Personalization is key in the future of retail, and hybrid shopping is leading the way. Utilizing big data and AI, retailers can now analyze consumer behavior and preferences to provide customized recommendations, creating a more intimate shopping experience for each customer. With this kind of understanding, retailers can better cater to the needs and wants of their customers, making every shopping experience a unique and enjoyable one.
Congratulations,@michealchukwube! You have won $200!
Congratulations to all the winners again! We will contact y’all shortly. Visit contests.hackernoon.com today to check out the currently running contests. We are launching three new contests in April!
Check out this prompt to write a story on #web-development.
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