Devpost

Something spooky this way comes 👀 Kiroween is back! 👻 $100K in cash prizes for projects built with Kiro, and registration is open now on Devpost. The build window runs Oct 30 to Dec 4. New projects only this year, so keep your idea in your back pocket until Oct 30. Rules, judging criteria, and bonus challenges go live then but in the meantime, register today: https://lnkd.in/e-tDSfAg

Devpost Learn is back, and this time with Snap! Coding agents can now build an AR Lens from a single prompt. So the bottleneck isn’t the code anymore. It’s taste. Get early hands-on time with CLAD, Snap’s new developer toolkit that connects Claude Code, Codex or Cursor directly to Lens Studio. Learn AR with SPECS teaches you the design decisions the AI can’t make. You plan your idea with our skill pack, the agent builds the code, and you test it in the preview on your laptop. No glasses needed! What you get: → The Devpost Learn skill pack, which pressure-tests your idea against AR design best practices before you build → A live build session that walks you through building a Lens start to finish, plus a live project review before the deadline → Direct access to the Snap and Devpost teams in our Discord SPECS ship this fall, so now’s a good time to get a head start. $2,500 in prizes across 3 monthly rounds. Round 1 closes Nov 9. Start your AR journey today: https://lnkd.in/eFC_6EPC

Getting an LLM-powered feature to work in a demo takes an afternoon. Getting it to produce the same clean, structured answer every time is a much bigger challenge. In our AI Trends Report 2026, 40% of devs named reasoning errors as a top blocker when building with AI, and 32% named unpredictable outputs. Only API cost (43%) ranked higher. Fixing that takes more than a better prompt. It takes systems for managing prompts and parsing outputs, and that kind of work rarely wins a spot in a regular sprint. So we gave it 48 hours. Our internal hackathon centered on prompt management and output parsing. Every developer submitted a functional project, and within days, other teams were stress-testing one of the features for our platform. Links in the comments to read our article on DEV Community, plus the AI Trends Report if you haven’t grabbed it yet 👇

Join us tomorrow at 10AM ET for a live build session with Missy Davies and Dennis Meister from GitLab! They'll walk through a project that uses GitLab Duo Agent Platform to automate what happens after code is written, then take your questions live. It'll be beginner friendly, and a good fit if you've registered for Life After Code but haven't picked what to build yet or figured out how to get started. See you there! https://lnkd.in/ghu6GfcC

What ROI can you expect from a hackathon? The answer looks different depending on the type you run. → Public hackathons: dev community growth, projects built with your tools, and product feedback → Internal hackathons: prototypes that ship, new skills, and leadership buy-in → Customer hackathons: use cases that get funded and stronger customer retention We’re showing organizers how to measure ROI for each hackathon type, using benchmarks from real Devpost hackathons. Full post in the comments 👇

I wanted to build my own Jarvis. I ended up presenting a talking drone in Las Vegas. A few months later, Devpost interviewed me about the experience: what worked, what broke, and why I started. The project is Drone Copilot, a drone you can talk to. It won Best of Live Agents at Google’s Gemini Live Agent Challenge and took me to Google Cloud Next. The idea came from Iron Man: talking to a machine like Tony Stark talks to Jarvis. No remote, just your voice and Gemini. It was my first hardware project. Wind, low light and depth perception made it harder than I expected. Each one taught me something. I really enjoyed the interview because it captures what building this project actually felt like. Thank you Darlyze and Devpost for sharing the story. I’m grateful for the opportunities your hackathons create. I didn’t know whether the idea would work. I’m glad I tried. Full story in the comments 👇 #GeminiLive #GoogleCloudNext #AI #Hackathon #Drones

I talked to Bryen P. about his project, Drone Copilot, that won Best of Live Agents at Google’s Gemini Live Agent Challenge on Devpost! Check out how Iron Man and Gemini inspired him to go from never having built a hardware project before to getting invited to Google Cloud Next 👀 👉🏽 https://lnkd.in/geAmuhxg

The PayPal Developer team behind the scenes for our 6 week long hackathon 🥳. Did you join our PayPal AI hackathon yet? $60K+ in cash and prizes 🤯 Whether you're a developer, an AI builder, a founder, or a student, here's your chance to use your imagination and build with AI. PayPal has your back as the trusted payment layer! Have a look at our featured/pinned post for more details...