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Github "Finish-Up-A-Thon" Challenge Winner Announcement Delayed & General Challenge Timeline Updates

Jess Lee on June 08, 2026

Hey all, we have a quick update for everyone who participated in the GitHub "Finish-Up-A-Thon" Challenge, followed by a more general challenge time...
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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Half of 1K of submissions is insane. The challenges are getting harder to win by each announcement of new challenges.

I don't know...Might be a good idea to bring back community judges now @jess IMO :)

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Fayaz

Participating in a challenge is a challenge,
receiving many submissions is a much bigger challenge 🤣🥰

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Anna Villarreal

I was not able to finish on time, but it did inspire me to 'finish' a project. A project I went out of my way to get special hardware for, have been working on, and will definitely be posting about it soon. So for that, thank you. I really wanted to participate in this one, but simply had too much going on.

Good luck to all the participants!!! And wow, 500 is alot!

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Fayaz

Same happened to me.
I didn't finish up the finish-up-a-thon 😄

But I did revive something good.
Once I'm done with it, it'll be helpful to a lot of people 🫠

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Anna Villarreal

I'll be curious to see what you made when its done!

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Fayaz

I'll post about it on DEV and if I remember, I'll tag you in the post.
Thanks for your interest 🥰

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adriens

That's cool <3

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Ayush Sharma

This was interesting, I finally got around to completing one of my pending projects during this period....

the 500+ submissions show there were plenty of projects waiting to be finished.
Let's see what's next.

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Veejayant

More than 500 submission is really insane, so if we estimate 600 entries there is only 1.67% chance of anyone winning. The submission rate is truly impressive(I mean 500 submissions is over the mind)

Even if i won't come in top 10 i hope I would get a completion badge instead(which is still good). My submission link:
dev.to/vivid162veejayant/github-fi...

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Akash

That's quite a number to be judged individually! Kudos to the team for putting in such effort to organize this beautiful event! Can't wait to see the winners 😇

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Tanay Dwivedi

Wishing all the best to participants who took part in it.

Excited for other upcoming challenges.