As we method the shut of one other unimaginable 12 months at Hackster, I couldn’t be extra pleased with what our group and neighborhood have completed. Each day, I’m reminded that Hackster was constructed to serve the world’s digital engineering innovators — folks such as you who remodel daring ideas into working options. At the moment, I’m thrilled to share thrilling bulletins that mark a major shift for our platform and for the inventive minds who take into account Hackster their neighborhood.
Introducing Our Greatest 12 months-Finish Celebrations
Hackster Holidays Giveaway (New Annual Occasion)
The brand new Hackster Holidays Giveaway is our greatest giveaway of 2024! Almost every single day from December tenth to the thirty first, we give away {hardware} that can aid you construct higher, sooner, and smarter. Plus, we’re providing two grand prize winners the last word workbench setup valued at over $5K every. It’s our approach of claiming “thanks” for being a part of our neighborhood and for pushing the boundaries of what’s attainable.
After signing up, make sure to come again every day to earn extra entries. Each respect, like, remark, or dialogue put up will earn you one entry (see guidelines for limits and restrictions)!
The 12 months-Finish Junk Drawer Competitors
All of us have that one drawer full of half-realized concepts and miscellaneous components ready to return to life. Our annual Junk Drawer Competitors celebrates turning these scraps and stray elements into totally realized tasks. Consider it as the right solution to kick off the brand new 12 months — by reworking what may need been forgotten into one thing extraordinary.
In the course of the Hackster Vacation’s Giveaway, you may earn as much as 10 further entries for every challenge submitted (see guidelines for limits and restrictions).
Be taught extra concerning the Junk Drawer Competitors and enter right here!
Our Annual Member Survey
Your suggestions has all the time guided us in enhancing the neighborhood expertise. Our annual survey is your likelihood to form subsequent 12 months’s occasions, options, and platform enhancements. It’s fast, confidential, and instantly influences the sort of sponsorships and funding we will safe to gas your future tasks.
In the course of the Hackster Vacation’s Giveaway, you may earn as much as 10 further entries by finishing all of the survey questions.
Take the Member Survey now to help the Hackster neighborhood.
However wait, there’s extra…
We can be saying further applications and alternatives all through the month of December. Join our e-newsletter to be notified first of further applications being introduced this month.
Introducing Membership Badges: Degree Up Your Profile to Unique Packages
One of the crucial vital modifications we’re introducing is a brand new membership badge system that acknowledges and rewards our members at completely different phases of their journey.
Commonplace Members:
All new signups are Commonplace by default. Commonplace members can put up tasks, like content material, and remark freely. It’s the foundational membership you recognize and love.
If you’re new to Hackster, please take into account signing up at present.
Verified Members:
By verifying your identification, citizenship, and residency, you’ll acquire a coveted Verified badge. This standing opens the door to taking part in contests, giveaways, competitions, and challenges — basically any program involving promotional merchandise, money rewards, or prizes. Verified is your gateway to all of the alternatives that Hackster and our sponsor companions have to supply.
Apply for account verification right here!
Professional Members:
For our most dedicated and expert innovators, we’re rolling out the Professional badge. Professional members are our top-tier contributors and subject material specialists who persistently reveal excellence. As a Professional, you’re not simply a part of the motion — you assist outline it. Professional members acquire entry to unique paid alternatives known as “Professional Gigs,” which contain creating reference designs, gaining early entry to merchandise, producing specialised content material, internet hosting webinars, attending conferences, and extra. That is the place you may flip your ardour into tangible revenue and business affect.
Find out about Hackster Professional and apply at present!
Introducing Challenges: Your Path to Paid Venture Alternatives
We’ve all the time believed in rewarding significant contributions. That’s why we’re excited to launch Challenges, a brand new sort of contest connecting you instantly with manufacturers searching for your experience. Challenges are basically challenge requests or “bounties” posted by our companions. Right here’s the way it works:
- Verify the Problem listings: Manufacturers publish duties — similar to constructing a selected reference design or writing a technical article — together with a beneficiant money bounty (usually $1,000 to $5,000).
- Submit a proposal: In case you’re and verified, submit a proposal for consideration. Our problem managers will choose three to 5 of the perfect proposals. Velocity issues right here. Challenges could replenish inside hours, so that you’ll wish to act quick.
- Full the challenge and receives a commission: As soon as your proposal has been accepted, convey the Problem to life and publish it on Hackster. Upon profitable completion, you obtain the payout. Plus, in case your submission stands out as the perfect among the many awarded contracts, you’ll get an extra money bonus.
Now we have a handful of our first Challenges deliberate to be introduced this month. As an added bonus, each validated proposal submitted throughout December will earn you 5 entries into the Hackster Holidays Giveaway.
Challenges are launching on December eleventh. Join our e-newsletter to be notified.
Why This Issues
All these updates — our largest-ever giveaway, the Junk Drawer Competitors, the annual member survey, the brand new badge system, and the introduction of Challenges — are a part of an even bigger imaginative and prescient. We wish to empower each engineer, maker, and dreamer on our platform. Our intention is to create an atmosphere the place you may regularly develop your expertise, earn recognition, and profit financially out of your experience.
For our neighborhood, this implies extra alternatives, clearer profession paths, and tangible incentives in your exhausting work. For our sponsor companions, it affords structured methods to faucet into the ingenuity of our members, fueling a market of innovation that retains all the ecosystem thriving.
What’s Subsequent?
Hackster Professional and Challenges are presently in public beta. Which means we’ll be listening intently to your suggestions, refining the choices, and including extra advantages as we perceive your wants higher. We count on extra advanced and numerous duties to seem as Challenges evolve. Equally, the Professional tier will proceed to adapt, making certain that prime members have cutting-edge methods to contribute and earn.
Be a part of Us in Shaping the Future
It is a pivotal second in Hackster’s journey, and I invite you to be a part of it. Whether or not you’re right here for inspiration, neighborhood, recognition, or income, we’re dedicated to supporting your progress and success.
There’s a lot occurring in December! To do all of it, right here is the listing of hyperlinks:
Thanks for being a part of this outstanding neighborhood. Right here’s to constructing greater, higher, and bolder issues collectively.
