The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge presented by Major League Hacking (MLH).
Choosing our five winners was no easy task. The submissions we received were candid, thoughtful, and packed with genuine insight. From passion-projects to side-hustles, wild-ideas and thoughtful-tools, we were struck by how openly participants shared both the highlights and the friction points of working with Google Gemini. That kind of honesty is what makes a great reflection post, and you all community delivered.
To everyone who submitted: thank you for taking the time to write it all down. We hope putting it into words was as valuable as the building itself.
Without further delay, here are the winners.
Congratulations Toโฆ
@jowi00000 built Plante, an automated greenhouse monitor that leverages the Google Gemini API to power two core features: Context-Aware AI Chat and Weekly Pulse Insights. We loved learning about the hardware components and how the team gamified the frontend experience for users.
@francistrdev provided a deep, honest analysis of using Google Gemini for contributing to Forem (the OSS that powers DEV ๐) and vibe coding a project for our Weekend Challenge.
@astrodeeptej fused NASA data with Gemini to build "CosmoDex", an interactive dashboard for tracking Near Earth Objects. Google Gemini was utilized to generate dynamic, gamified threat assessments and sci-fi lore, a stellar example of making data engaging and accessible!
@phalkmin shares their experience of using Gemini CLI as a junior dev. We learn about how they refined their prompting strategy saved two legacy codebases.
@mirshah12 built "ProcSee", an autonomous security investigation system that monitors every process on your machine in real-time. When something looks suspicious, it hands the investigation off to Gemini 3 Pro to write a full forensic report.
Prizes
Our five winners will receive:
- Raspberry Pi 5 8GB GenAI Kit (Assembled)
- DEV++ Membership
- Exclusive DEV Badge
All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.
Whatโs next?
Join the Notion MCP Challenge happening now through March, 29!
As always, keep an eye on our challenge page to see whatโs launching next, and follow the challenge tag so you donโt miss any announcements:
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Thank you to everyone who participated! We hope you reflecting on and sharing your projects in this type of challenge motivates you to keep building things that you feel passionate about.
Top comments (24)
These are amazing! Thanks for participating everyone! ๐คฉ
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hahah best reaction ever!
I woke up my wife
You all have no idea how happy I get with those recognitions.
Thank you, everyone on DEV.to, for being one of the warmest tech communities surviving these days.
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Congrats y'all!
๐๐๐ I saw my project Plante on the post and couldn't believe it. THANK YOU! It was so much fun reading everyone's blogs, nonetheless creating my first one ever so easily on this platform! There is a sea of talent here, and I am extremely excited to keep up with the community and post more โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ
Congrats to everyone!
When Raspberry Pis arrive, please make posts on how you use them!
OMG OMG! I am honored to be in the TOP 5!!!! BIG accomplishment! Congrats to everyone on the top 5 spot as well. I enjoyed reading everyone's reflection!
My reaction rn lol:
Dear organizers @ben, @jess, @theycallmeswift
Could you please provide feedback on my submission and confirm whether it was reviewed?
My submission for reference:
From Metrics to Meaning: Building WellInsightEngine with Gemini
Vlad ใป Mar 4
I deployed a fully functional version using Google Cloud Run, TimescaleDB, and Clerk, and included a live instance as requested in the challenge guidelines.
I'd especially appreciate feedback on the approach, architecture, and overall evaluation of the project.
Thank you for your time and feedback.
For a question like this, would you mind emailing in to hi@mlh.io? MLH has an entire team who helps out with judging projects and can investigate specific details for you.
It's one of our first DEV challenges using the new MLH team and infrastructure, so it's possible that something slipped through the cracks. That said, we don't currently leave feedback on each project as we review it (would love to get there one day!), so it's hard to tell online sometimes!
Thanks for the guidance.
I've just sent an email and added you in cc.
Congrats to the winnerss!!! ๐
this honestly means a lot, thank you so much to the DEV team for running such a great challenge! Huge congrats to the other winners too๐
Congrats
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