You voted. You tweeted. You hacked the platform and cheated.
The Noonies—the tech industry's greenest awards; built by Hacker Noon in partnership with Stream—was conceptualized to recognize the best and worst peoples and products of the internets, in 2019 and beyond.
With over 55,000 votes cast—for 457 Noonies nominees—across 50 awards categories, we're extremely excited to announce the winners of these prestigious awards - only two of which were compromised by inauthentic voting behaviour!
"The Noonies! Much thanks to the community for taking the time to cast 50k+ votes, determining the Hacker Noon award winners," said David Smooke. "It was fun. Great to see the community make their cases for their favorite Noonie nominees. Overall, we're also excited that we got our feet wet in custom voting technology. We look forward to contributing more to how the internet curates, ranks and distributes content."
And the 2019 Noonies Winners Are...
GENERAL TECH:
Product Manager of the Year
🥇Vindhya C
Best Tech News Source
The World's Most Productive Remote Team
🥇GitLab
Best Use of Tech for Good
🥇DADI FOUNDATION - harnessing tech to empower the most marginalised, ensuring fair access to technology and supporting robust and inclusive democracies
🥈UPEFFECT - improving access to funding for entrepreneurs on the right side of history
🥉MORELIFE - (where more = better well-being + extended life)
The Bait & Switch Award
🥇Medium's Paywall
🥉Apple's Butterfly Switch Keyboards
Most Exciting Startup [ Votes Hacked ]
🥇PASSBASE - seamless, bank-level identity verification integration into your website, app, or checkout with just a few lines of code
🥈LOOXIE - lets you request photos from specific locations: just drop a pin on the map or search for a point of interest
🥉CARBON - buying cryptocurrency has never been this easy
Hacker of the Year
🥇Thomas
Contributing Writer of the Year
🥇Patrick Lee Scott
Technology Writer of the Year
🥇Ashan Fernando
AI Writer of the Year
🥇Adrien Book
Most Over-Hyped Technology
🥇Blockchain
Cybersecurity Writer of the Year
🥇Han Yoon
Best AMA (ask-me-anything) award
🥇Carlos Domingo
Social Network of the Year [ Votes Hacked ]
🥇Steemit
🥈gab
🥉Narrative - The World's Journal
Most Valuable Chatbot Framework
🥇Chatbots by PubNub
🥈LivePerson
🥉Rasa
2 or 3 Under 20-ish Awards
🥇Sergio Mattei, founder of Makerlog
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🥉Rachel Zietz, founder of Gladiator Lacrosse
White Hat of the Year
🥇Alice Henshaw
60 Over 60 Awards
🥇Tim Berners-Lee
VC Twitter's MVP
CRYPTO/BLOCKCHAIN:
Most Hardcore Bitcoin Maximalist
🥇Pierre Rochard
Most crypto-friendly Jurisdiction Award
🥇Malta
Crypto-Name Drop of the Year
🥇Silicon Valley's story arc
Second-Best Crypto Publication on Earth
🥇John McAfee's Twitter Feed
Crypto-Buzzword of the Year
🥇Bitcoin Maximalist
Defining Crypto-Moment of the Year
🥇Facebook Announces Libra
🥉Crypto-Exchanges start conducting 10+ IEOs daily
Crypto-Dud of the Year
🥇Civil
The All-About-PR Award
🥇aELF
Best Blockchain Award
🥇Bitcoin
Blockchain of the Year Award
🥇Ethereum
The best crypto magazine
🥇CryptoSlate
Best crypto analysts
🥇Plan B
The Zero Factor Authentication Award for Achievement un Security
🥇MountGox2
Best Crypto Rap Song
🥇Bitcoin Rap Gucci Gang - HODL Gang
The best bitcoin Shiller
🥇Anthony Pompliano
The Cutest Crypto Kitty
🥇SirMeowsalot
The Best White Paper
🥇Bitcoin
Most Mind-blowing Bitcoin Story
🥇Bitcoin’s Biggest Hack In History: 184.4 Billion Bitcoin from Thin Air; Satoshi Hard Forks, Saves Bitcoin," by Charlie Shrem
🥈"Why the Price of Bitcoin Doesn't Matter," by Beautyon33
🥉"Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply," by StopAndDecrypt
#CryptoTwitter's MVP
🥇@hodlonaut
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:
Developer Tool Buzz of Year
🥇GraphQL
CMS You Can't Live Without
🥇Flamelink
Personal Developer Blog of the Year
🥇Overreacted
Best Developer on Twitter
🥇@iamdevloper
Best JAMstack
🥇React
Best Dev Podcast
🥇The Bike Shed
Top Dev Teacher
🥇Wes Bos
Best Open Source Project
🥇VS Code
Best Dev Community
🥇Dev.to
Best Open Startup
🥇Nomadlist
🥈Alan
Most Promising Fintech
🥇Robinhood
Thank YOU to all the Hacker Noon community members who took part in Hacker Noon's first annual awards—the Noonies 2019.
With a special shoutout to our awesome sponsor, Stream.io. Stream builds scalable feeds, activity streams & chat; and their simple, powerful APIs are used by some of the largest and most popular apps.
We're looking forward to an even bigger and better Noonies next year.
Back to the Internet,
The Hacker Noon Editorial Team 🔏
