over 1 year ago
And the winner is...
The judges have weighed in, and we're excited to share the news! You can now visit the TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024 gallery to congratulate the winners and check out all of the amazing submissions.
There were so many quality submissions, and it was challenging to pick the top five plus two special awards winners. We want to thank and congratulate all the participants who made this year's TiDB Future App Hackathon another amazing event. We look forward to seeing you again at our next Hackathon!
Sincerely,
TiDB Future App Hackathon team.
over 1 year ago
[REMINDER] A Quick Survey to help improve the next TiDB Future App Hackathon
First of all, our Hackathon project gallery is now available at https://tidbhackathon2024.devpost.com/project-gallery, and we want to thank you for your amazing contributions!
For those of you who haven't done it yet, we have a short survey (should take 5-10 minutes) for the Hackathon and your responses will help improve our next event. We'd appreciate it if you can take a few minutes to share your feedback here. 
As you can see in the last question, you also have the opportunity to earn additional TiDB Serverless credits if you're willing to be contacted for follow-up conversations. The hackathon winners…
over 1 year ago
A Quick Survey to help improve the next TiDB Future App Hackathon
Thanks everyone for your participation in TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024! We're grateful for your energy and dedication to make this a wonderful event, and we hope that you enjoyed the Hackathon.
In order to learn more about your Hackathon experience, we created a short survey (should take 5-10 minutes) and your responses will help improve our next Hackathon. We'd appreciate it if you can take a few minutes to share your feedback here.
As you can see in the last question, you also have the opportunity to earn additional TiDB Serverless credits if you're willing to be contacted…
over 1 year ago
Hackathon submission period is now closed
Thank you for your participation in TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024! We appreciate your contributions and hope you enjoyed the Hackathon as much as we have.
The submission period is now closed, but we wanted to give you a quick update on the rest of the timeline (all dates and times below are in Pacific Time).
- August 26: You will receive a short survey so that you can share your experience with this year's Hackathon. Your feedback will be valuable in helping improve our future Hackathons, so we appreciate your taking 5-10 minutes for the survey.
- September 6: The judging…
over 1 year ago
1 Hour Left! Final Hour Countdown for Submissions!
Hi, everyone.
Please make sure to submit your project now.
You can still edit and refine your submission until the deadline—ensure your creation is in the race!
Submission Address: https://devpost.com/submit-to/21490-tidb-future-app-hackathon-2024/manage/submissions
Submission Guide: https://ask.pingcap.com/t/2024-tidb-future-app-hackathon-submission-process-guide/10054
Last-Minute Push: Let's give it our all in this final hour!
over 1 year ago
Judging Criteria for Projects
Hello, I received a few questions on the judging criteria so I wanted to post them here as we get closer to the submission deadline of August 23 at 8 pm Pacific Time.
Our judges will evaluate projects on the following criteria (for a total of 100 points):
- Technical Implementation (35 points): How well the idea was executed by the developer and how well the TiDB Serverless & Vector Search features were leveraged.
- Quality/Creativity of the Idea (25 points): How creative and unique is the project? If the concept exists already, how much does the project improve on…
over 1 year ago
Final call for submissions!
Just a quick reminder that there are only 3 days left to complete your submission for TiDB Future App Hackathon 2024! (The deadline is August 23 at 8 pm Pacific Time)
Please double check to make sure your submission includes:
-
TiDB Cloud account email
- Link to your demo video on YouTube (highlight the benefits of using TiDB Serverless with Vector Search)
- Access to your working application
- Link to your code on GitHub
If you have any questions, please post them on our Discord channel. Best of Luck!
over 1 year ago
As you're working on your TiDB Future App Hackathon projects...
Hi Everyone,
We already received a number of submissions for the Hackathon and I want to applaud all the early submitters! I responsded to some of them with suggestions to improve their projects and I wanted to share them here. (One of the major benefits of early submissions is an opportunity to receive feedback from the Hackathon team and to iterate on your work.)
First, in your project description and video, please include how TiDB Serverless and TiDB Vector Search were used for your application. Second, don't forget to include the link to your code repository so we can see…
over 1 year ago
Some Tips for your Demo Video
Hi Everyone,
As the submission dealine (August 23 at 8 pm Pacific Time) for the Hackathon is approaching, we wanted to share a few tips on your demo video. As you can see from our judging criteria, the quality of your video is worth 10 points (out of a total of 100), so it can have an impact on your total score.
First, here are a couple of requirements:
- Please make sure your video is under 4 minutes. Longer videos will negatively impact your score.
- Your video on YouTube needs to be viewable by anyone. Your video can be unlisted,…
over 1 year ago
Tools from our sponsors for your Hackathon project
We have a great group of Sponsors for this year's Hackathon, and we want to reiterate our thanks to AWS, Anyscale, Dify, Jina AI, Lepton AI, LlamaIndex and NPi for their support.
Many of the sponsors are generously offering thier tools for Hackathon participants to make it easy for you to develop AI applications with TiDB Vector Search. If you haven't done it yet, please check out this development tools post where you will find information on how their tools can help with your project and how to get started.
Also on Discord, we have a dedicated channel for…
over 1 year ago
TiDB Future App Hackathon Submission Guideline
Hello everyone,
Thanks again for participating in the TiDB Future App Hackathon!
ICYMI, I wanted to share our submission process guideline for our Hackathon as you're working on your project. If you scroll down on the post, you'll see screenshots to help you navigate through the steps.
Also, if you're still looking for team members, you can head over to the "find-teammate" channel (under HACKATHON 2024) on our Discord to introduce yourself.
Happy Hacking and best of luck!
Warm regards,
TiDB Hackathon Team