🏆 Telegram Сontest for JS Developers, Round 1: Results

After many hours of testing and watching hundreds of Live Streams, we are now ready to announce the results. From a total of 19 submissions, 13 contestants qualified for prizes – basically every developer who implemented at least one part of the overall task.

Despite a challenging Contest Task and a tight deadline, we were happy to see many solid apps. Despite nobody achieving perfect Live Streams (each implementation we tested requires a significant amount of further polishing), we would like to give a special thanks to🥇Fit Whale, who was able to find a great minimalist solution for Task II that will be merged with Web K soon.🥈Dreamy Crow presented a similar approach that is slightly less optimal, but still notable.

Meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $6,000
🥇Fit Whale

2nd PLACE – $3,000
🥈Dreamy Crow
🥈Hip Hyena
🥈Large Moth
🥈Sweet Yak
🥈Giant Turkey

3rd PLACE – $1,500
🥉Fierce Frog
🥉Large Butterfly
🥉Tidy Hawk
🥉Dreamy Crab
🥉Holy Beetle
🥉Tidy Walrus penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$250)
🥉Huge Cobra penalties:
– Task II plagiarism (–$500)

P.S. Have a great Monday and stay tuned for Round 2 in the coming weeks!

🏆 Design Competition 2024

Prize fund: Up to $30,000
Deadline: 23:59 Dubai time @ April 27th, 2024
Who can participate: Everyone

Telegram announces a competition for UI designers. The top prize is $5,000, and the winner may get a chance to join the Telegram Design team.

The Task is to create 3 short demo videos for 3 different features in the same manner as the demonstrations from the Telegram Blog.

Each video should offer a brief overview of a feature that currently does not exist in official Telegram apps.

You are welcome to use any ideas (e.g., in-app payments or a feed for channels). Be creative, but don't get carried away by things like a major app redesign.

It is mandatory to cover both iOS and Android – at least 1 video out of 3 must be made for a different platform. Entries featuring all videos for both platforms are likely to get higher chances in the final scoring, provided that they fulfill the evaluation criteria.

Evaluation Criteria:
While evaluating submissions, the judges may apply the following criteria to determine the winners:

Clarity – the general audience must have a clear understanding of how the feature you are displaying works.

Consistency – the video should be looped, with smooth transitions between screens and all elements should be consistent and balanced.

Completeness – you must present a finalized flow for your feature. Your video should show an entry point from existing Telegram interfaces, a brief overview of the feature's main components and a transition back to the entry point.

Submissions:
We will publish instructions how to submit your work closer to the deadline.

⚠️ We’ve noticed that many participants uploaded their videos as files to their contest channels.

This is not the right way – the channel should host your demos sent as VIDEOS. ✔️

Make sure to address this before the deadline. (For reference, see @TelegramTips.)