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Hackernoon logoHacker Noon Awards: 2019 Noonies Winners Announced by@natasha

Hacker Noon Awards: 2019 Noonies Winners Announced

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@natashaNatasha Nel

๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm the Managing Editor here at Hacker Noon. I also make podcasts and write stories.

You voted. You tweeted. You hacked the platform and cheated.

Theย Nooniesโ€”the tech industry's greenest awards; built by Hacker Noon in partnership with Streamโ€”was conceptualized to recognize the best and worst peoples and products of the internets, in 2019 and beyond.

With over 55,000 votes castโ€”for 457 Noonies nomineesโ€”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!ย 

"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

๐Ÿฅ‡Vindhya C

๐ŸฅˆTimotรฉ Geimer

๐Ÿฅ‰Marija Cvjetkovic

Best Tech News Source

๐Ÿฅ‡Twitter

๐ŸฅˆHacker News

๐Ÿฅ‰Reddit

The World's Most Productive Remote Team

๐Ÿฅ‡GitLab

๐ŸฅˆBuffer

๐Ÿฅ‰Knack

Best Use of Tech for Good

๐Ÿฅ‡DADI FOUNDATION - harnessing tech to empower the most marginalised, ensuring fair access to technology and supporting robust and inclusive democracies

๐ŸฅˆUPEFFECT - improving access to funding for entrepreneurs on the right side of history

๐Ÿฅ‰MORELIFE - (where more = better well-being + extended life)

The Bait & Switch Award

๐Ÿฅ‡Medium's Paywall

๐ŸฅˆFacebook's Libra

๐Ÿฅ‰Apple's Butterfly Switch Keyboards

Most Exciting Startup [ Votes Hacked ]

๐Ÿฅ‡PASSBASE - seamless, bank-level identity verification integration into your website, app, or checkout with just a few lines of code

๐ŸฅˆLOOXIE - lets you request photos from specific locations: just drop a pin on the map or search for a point of interest

๐Ÿฅ‰CARBON - buying cryptocurrency has never been this easy

Hacker of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Thomas

๐ŸฅˆArthur Tkachenko

๐Ÿฅ‰Nirav

Contributing Writer of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Patrick Lee Scott

๐ŸฅˆAndrey Sergeenkov

๐Ÿฅ‰sudhanshu kumar

Technology Writer of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Ashan Fernando

๐ŸฅˆRiz Virk

๐Ÿฅ‰Arthur Tkachenko

AI Writer of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Adrien Book

๐ŸฅˆAkash Deep

๐Ÿฅ‰Tony Aubรฉ

Most Over-Hyped Technology

๐Ÿฅ‡Blockchain

๐ŸฅˆAI

๐Ÿฅ‰VR

Cybersecurity Writer of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Han Yoon

๐ŸฅˆAaron Gershwin

๐Ÿฅ‰Alice Henshaw

Best AMA (ask-me-anything) award

๐Ÿฅ‡Carlos Domingo

๐ŸฅˆJean-Loรฏck Michaux (JLO)

๐Ÿฅ‰Taylor Monahan


Social Network of the Year [ Votes Hacked ]

๐Ÿฅ‡Steemit

๐Ÿฅˆgab

๐Ÿฅ‰Narrative - The World's Journal

Most Valuable Chatbot Framework

๐Ÿฅ‡Chatbots by PubNub

๐ŸฅˆLivePerson

๐Ÿฅ‰Rasa

2 or 3 Under 20-ish Awards

๐Ÿฅ‡Sergio Mattei, founder of Makerlog

๐ŸฅˆIves van Hoorne, creator of CodeSandbox

๐Ÿฅ‰Rachel Zietz, founder of Gladiator Lacrosse

White Hat of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Alice Henshaw

๐ŸฅˆGeorgios Konstantopoulos

๐Ÿฅ‰Nick Seneca Jankel

60 Over 60 Awards

๐Ÿฅ‡Tim Berners-Lee

๐ŸฅˆRichard Stallman

๐Ÿฅ‰Guido van Rossum

VC Twitter's MVP

๐Ÿฅ‡@alexiskold

๐Ÿฅˆ@naval

๐Ÿฅ‰@garrytan

CRYPTO/BLOCKCHAIN:

Most Hardcore Bitcoin Maximalist

๐Ÿฅ‡Pierre Rochard

๐ŸฅˆHodlonaut

๐Ÿฅ‰Francis Pouliot

Most crypto-friendly Jurisdiction Award

๐Ÿฅ‡Malta

๐ŸฅˆThe Zug, Switzerland

๐Ÿฅ‰Estonia

Crypto-Name Drop of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Silicon Valley's story arc

๐ŸฅˆEminem's Kamikaze Album

๐Ÿฅ‰Forbes' coverage of Bitcoin

Second-Best Crypto Publication on Earth

๐Ÿฅ‡John McAfee's Twitter Feed

๐ŸฅˆCoindesk

๐Ÿฅ‰CCN

Crypto-Buzzword of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Bitcoin Maximalist

๐ŸฅˆCrypto-Winter

๐Ÿฅ‰DeFi

Defining Crypto-Moment of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Facebook Announces Libra

๐ŸฅˆBinance gets Hacked

๐Ÿฅ‰Crypto-Exchanges start conducting 10+ IEOs daily

Crypto-Dud of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Civil

๐ŸฅˆSparkster

The All-About-PR Award

๐Ÿฅ‡aELF

๐ŸฅˆVeID

Best Blockchain Award

๐Ÿฅ‡Bitcoin

๐ŸฅˆEthereum

๐Ÿฅ‰EOS

Blockchain of the Year Award

๐Ÿฅ‡Ethereum

๐ŸฅˆEOS

๐Ÿฅ‰Bitcoin

The best crypto magazine

๐Ÿฅ‡CryptoSlate

๐ŸฅˆCoindesk

๐Ÿฅ‰Cointelegraph

Best crypto analysts

๐Ÿฅ‡Plan B

๐ŸฅˆKazonomics

๐Ÿฅ‰Willy woo

The Zero Factor Authentication Award for Achievement un Security

๐Ÿฅ‡MountGox2

๐ŸฅˆBinance

๐Ÿฅ‰Bitfinex

Best Crypto Rap Song

๐Ÿฅ‡Bitcoin Rap Gucci Gang - HODL Gang

๐ŸฅˆEDCON 2019 - Vitalik Rap

๐Ÿฅ‰Team Hodl - Lambo Land

The best bitcoin Shiller

๐Ÿฅ‡Anthony Pompliano

๐ŸฅˆJohn McAffee (Good Old John)

๐Ÿฅ‰Jack Dorsey

The Cutest Crypto Kitty

๐Ÿฅ‡SirMeowsalot

๐ŸฅˆLilbubthemagicalspacecat

๐Ÿฅ‰Felono

The Best White Paper

๐Ÿฅ‡Bitcoin

๐ŸฅˆEOS

๐Ÿฅ‰Ethereum

Most Mind-blowing Bitcoin Story

๐Ÿฅ‡Bitcoinโ€™s Biggest Hack In History: 184.4 Billion Bitcoin from Thin Air; Satoshi Hard Forks, Saves Bitcoin," by Charlie Shrem

๐Ÿฅˆ"Why the Price of Bitcoin Doesn't Matter," by Beautyon33

๐Ÿฅ‰"Bitcoin Miners Beware: Invalid Blocks Need Not Apply," by StopAndDecrypt

#CryptoTwitter's MVP

๐Ÿฅ‡@hodlonaut

๐Ÿฅˆ@aantonop

๐Ÿฅ‰@BullyEsq

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

Developer Tool Buzz of Year

๐Ÿฅ‡GraphQL

๐ŸฅˆReact Hooks

๐Ÿฅ‰GatsbyJS

CMS You Can't Live Without

๐Ÿฅ‡Flamelink

๐ŸฅˆButterCMS

๐Ÿฅ‰Strapi

Personal Developer Blog of the Year

๐Ÿฅ‡Overreacted

๐ŸฅˆAhmad Awais

๐Ÿฅ‰Tania Rascia

Best Developer on Twitter

๐Ÿฅ‡@iamdevloper

๐Ÿฅˆ@dan_abramov

๐Ÿฅ‰@jaffathecake

Best JAMstack

๐Ÿฅ‡React

๐ŸฅˆServerless Framework

๐Ÿฅ‰freecodecamp.org

Best Dev Podcast

๐Ÿฅ‡The Bike Shed

๐ŸฅˆSyntax.fm

๐Ÿฅ‰Soft Skills Engineering

Top Dev Teacher

๐Ÿฅ‡Wes Bos

๐ŸฅˆScott Tolinski

๐Ÿฅ‰Will Sentance

Best Open Source Project

๐Ÿฅ‡VS Code

๐ŸฅˆReact

๐Ÿฅ‰Vue.js

Best Dev Community

๐Ÿฅ‡Dev.to

๐ŸฅˆGithub

๐Ÿฅ‰Makerlog

Best Open Startup

๐Ÿฅ‡Nomadlist

๐ŸฅˆAlan

๐Ÿฅ‰Upscribe

Most Promising Fintech

๐Ÿฅ‡Robinhood

๐ŸฅˆAcorns

๐Ÿฅ‰Monzo

Thank YOU to all the Hacker Noon community members who took part in Hacker Noon's first annual awardsโ€”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 ๐Ÿ”

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