The Web Development Writing Contest: Round 2 Finalists Announced!

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28 Aug 2023

Heyo Hackers. HackerNoon and IONOS bring you the finalists of Round 2 of the Web Development Writing Contest. We are happy to share that we have published 208 #web-development stories so far, generating 45 days of reading time for the contest submissions! Kudos to our writers and readers for making this contest a success.

With writing contests, HackerNoon shares a part of its revenue with our community, rewarding the best stories. So far, we have distributed almost $300,000 in our community via these contests. We aim to get all our top tags sponsored for our writers as it encourages the tech community to share high-quality educational content, making learning accessible to everyone. We thank IONOS for supporting the web development tag and sharing the same sentiments of appreciating original and educational content by technologists, for technologists. Here’s the message from Annabelle Atchison, Head of Communications and Product Marketing at IONOS.

"We're thrilled to partner with HackerNoon for this web development writing competition. Recognizing the passion developers share for community-driven content, it's a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow enthusiasts and showcase the collective talent in the field."

How to Qualify for the Third Round of the Web Development Writing Contest?

We have now entered the third round of the web development writing contest. This is your chance to showcase your expertise in web app development and win a from $6,000 prize pool! All you have to do is submit a web development story before September 15th, and if our editors approve it, you’ll enter the contest's final round.

Here are some ideas shared by our sponsor:

  • Write anything about web app development - we would love to see how you have developed your web apps and what challenges you faced during development.

  • You can also explore the services, features, and use cases IONOS Cloud Cubes offers and choose a relevant topic that interests you. IONOS Cloud cubes are powerful KVM-based virtual servers designed for maximum flexibility and on-demand scalability.

  • Data security, backup, and recovery challenges in web app development

  • Creating instances for web apps

  • Web dev environment automation

  • Test automation for web apps

You can use this template to enter the web development writing contest.


This contest is different. We have decided to further gamify this contest and factor in the feedback of our fantastic community. If you are one of the finalists or rooting for one of these to win, you have a chance to convince the judges by commenting on this announcement why they should win.

You can share this announcement on social media with your followers to add more comments to convince the editorial! We will feature the best comments in our winners’ announcement.

Now, without further ado - here’s the list of round 2 finalists.

The Web Development Writing Contest Round 2: Top 10 Nominations

We have shortlisted the top 10 stories on the following factors:

  1. Content relevancy and quality
  2. Originality - only those stories have been shortlisted that are published first on HackerNoon
  3. Total number of reads proportionate to the reading time. (We monitor bot traffic, so a higher number of reads doesn’t automatically qualify your story to be in the top 10).

Here are the top 10 finalists:

  1. Mastering JavaScript Shorthands by @leandronnz
  2. Unleashing the Power of TypeScript: Improving Standard Library Types by @nodge
  3. Build a Document Analyzer with ChatGPT, Google Cloud, and Python by @shanglun
  4. Over 40, With no Technical Background, This is How I Learned a Frontend Framework in 2 Weeks by @codingjourneyfromunemployment
  5. Understanding React's useEffect Hook: A Deep Dive by @lastcallofsummer
  6. Over 40, With No Technical Background, This Is How I Learned Javascript in 2 Weeks by @codingjourneyfromunemployment
  7. Is AI Eavesdropping on You?: Defend Your Passwords From AI Keystroke Pattern Detection by @induction
  8. Is Migrating From Java 11 to Java 17 Worth It? by @sergeidzeboev
  9. How to Create a Blackjack Game With Alpine.js and the Deck of Cards API by @raymondcamden
  10. Boosting Website Performance: Leveraging Webpack for File Compression and Optimization by @fed4wet

Congratulations to the top 10 finalists because two of you will win from $2000!

What will happen next? Our Editors will vote on these stories, and the winner will be announced in October. The top two stories with the most votes by editorial will win $1000 each! Share this announcement with your support circle, and comment below why your story should win. We invite all our readers to share their favorite stories in the comments section. Our editors will be reading all the comments. Read the announcement of The Web Development Writing Contest, Round 1, here.

The primary purpose of these contests is to celebrate quality and recruit educational content for our community. We congratulate all the finalists. However, the Editorial team can disqualify a writer or a story if we find any misconduct like plagiarism, copyright infringement, or disinformation.