In February, we announced a new challenge on DEV, in partnership with our friends at Microsoft: the Microsoft Azure Trial Hackathon.

Our brilliant participants were challenged to build brand new apps using Microsoft's free trial of their Azure cloud platform. Submissions were to be filed in one of five categories: AI Aces, Computing Captains, Low-Code Legends, Java Jackpot, and Wacky Wildcards.

It's never easy for contest judges to pick just one Grand Prize winner per category and 10 runners-up and this time was no different. Even so, judges from the DEV and Microsoft Azure teams managed to pick our winners and I'm excited to share them with you today!

Let's take a look at the winning projects for the Microsoft Azure Trial on DEV!

AI Aces: @fp

Health Mate - Collect body parameters with speech

FrankPohl ・ Mar 3 '22

#azuretrialhack #cognitiveservices #xamarinforms

Computing Captains: @alicefolvaiter

SmartGoals - Building a reliable application with Azure Services

Alice ・ Feb 28 '22

#azuretrialhack #dotnet #angular #azure

Low-Code Legends: @sandy_codes_py

Enterprise grade Skin Cancer Detection and treatment solution using Power Platform - Microsoft Azure cloud

Santhosh (sandy inspires) ・ Mar 8 '22

#azuretrialhack #powerfuldevs #azure #beginners

Java Jackpot: @dev117uday

Project Urlink : Java on Azure

Uday Yadav ・ Mar 6 '22

#azuretrialhack #azure #java

Wacky Wildcards: @iron_samurai

Toilet Keeper- Keep your toilet clean and keep your partner happy

Shun ・ Mar 8 '22

#azuretrialhack #iot #esp32 #arduino

All Grand Prize Winners will receive:

• $1,500 USD gift card or equivalent 🤑
• $300 USD credit to the DEV Shop 😎
• Microsoft Azure Sticker Pack 🎁
• DEV Sticker Pack ✨
• DEV “Azure Trial Hack” Grand Prize profile badge 🏆

And, our 10 Runners-Up, in random order!

Azure Trial Hackathon - Mini Pinterest with Flask

hungle00 ・ Mar 6 '22

#azuretrialhack #python #flask #azure

Azure Trial Hackathon - EmotionalSound - perfect spotify song for your emotions

marco-bertelli ・ Mar 8 '22

#azuretrialhack #hackathon #showdev #javascript

Introducing Pckd - The most powerful 💪 URL shortener

Mohit Yadav ・ Mar 3 '22

#azuretrialhack #node #javascript #react

Food Library- Using azure app service, NodeJs, Pug

Tyler ・ Mar 6 '22

#azuretrialhack #azure #microsoft

The Book Lender API - Powered by Low-Code, deployed by code

Xavier Mignot ・ Mar 8 '22

#azuretrialhack #azure #terraform

Leave Management System🐱‍💻

Kithmini ・ Mar 8 '22

#azuretrialhack

Guess Who—My Azure Trial Hackathon Submission

ikumen ・ Mar 8 '22

#azuretrialhack #azureai #guesswhogame #java

Birthdate Speciality | Azure SpringBoot

Atharva Shirdhankar ・ Mar 8 '22

#azuretrialhack #azure

Étoile du jour: Deploying NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on Azure (Microsoft Azure Trial Hackathon)

Precious Chicken ・ Feb 20 '22

#azuretrialhack #react #node

Hello World 📰

Samyuktha Ganeshkumar ・ Mar 7 '22

#azuretrialhack

All runners-up will receive:

• $250 USD gift card or equivalent 💰
• $150 USD credit to the DEV Shop 🌈
• Microsoft Sticker Pack ⭐️
• DEV Sticker Pack 💻
• DEV “Azure Trial Hack” Runner-Up profile badge 🌟

Participants

All participants with a valid project will receive a DEV Sticker Pack and an “Azure Trial Hack” participant profile badge. 🎉

To everyone who submitted a project for this hackathon, we're giving you a huge round of applause. In the process of building your project, you sharpened your skills while learning something new. That's something to be very proud of.

Our team will follow up with all winners and participants about their prizes, gift codes, and stickers on Friday, March 25.

Great work, everyone! We hope you had a blast participating in the Microsoft Azure Trial Hackathon on DEV!