This Slack discussion by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in 's official #writing-for-the-internet channel and has been edited for readability. slogging Ok, let's explore here how I would try to win Velo Contest. Just to make everything clear -> Nope, I'm not allowed to do it. Because it will be weird. Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 4:44 PM But I can motivate people to participate. This thread might help to start somebody. Good luck! Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 4:45 PM First of all, you need to know what to expect. 1. Read our announcement: 2. Check our website(trying to cover all cases): and Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 4:53 PM https://hackernoon.com/introducing-the-velo-writing-contest-by-wix-and-hacker-noon-ta3433v0 https://hackernoon.com/ https://hackernoon.com/velo-writing-contest 3. Check some useful links: - - - - Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 4:54 PM https://support.wix.com/en/article/getting-started-with-velo-by-wix https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/better-developer-experience-with-cloud-operations-and-wixs-velo https://www.wix.com/velo/forum/community-discussion https://www.wix.com/velo/forum/tips-tutorials-examples 4. Be prepared: it might work slow on your PC, but don't give up Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 4:54 PM In order to display a non-static website - you'll need to have a data source and connect it with Velo. For example, you can create some sort of "fake API". Or, just create an express server and return some data from it. Another way to store some json - use a clone of jsfiddle: Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 5:12 PM https://jsonbin.io/ Assuming you are familiar with Javascript, you can use some faker plugin for data: Or just get some dataset from Kaggle or something Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 5:13 PM https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ Let me mention few more ways to get/share some data. You can use - pretty cool project Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 6:54 PM https://fakejson.com/ Typicode(creator of LowDB & husky) also helping us here: Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 6:54 PM https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/ Another way is to connect to some open API and display some data from it. I have a cool list to share with you: Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 6:59 PM https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis Another way is to use RapidAPI(i'm a fan of their work): Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 7:01 PM https://rapidapi.com/collection/list-of-free-apis So, let's talk about cool ideas that can catch our attention? A cool project can be related to articles, published on hackernoon. Each of our tags ( ) has its own RSS feed. You can parse it by hands. Or just use some online tool. More details can see here: And you can use our "Editorial Pick" aka Featured articles thread: Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 7:06 PM https://hackernoon.com/tagged https://hackernoon.com/latest-tech-stories-3vin34bd https://hackernoon.com/tagged/hackernoon-top-story/feed if you can't google, here is a link for RSS parser: Yes, I agree, only boomers know what RSS is... Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 7:06 PM https://rss2json.com/#rss_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Finternational%2Frss Going back to some App ideas, that you actually can show to someone: - recipe app or anything related to food Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 7:12 PM - platform for handmade items - website for selling digital art - online courses website(because of a pandemic) - travel website(also fun topic because of a pandemic) - history website - interviews website(text or video) - website about movies or tv shows - growth hack website with pool from twitter - job board, platform for sharing CV - fashion website - tech jokes website You can even create a website related to sports activities. But a lot of peoples do not work out anymore Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 7:13 PM You can also "steal"(learn) from the best. if you not sure how your article should look - created an awesome article: Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 7:30 PM Muhammad Bilal https://hackernoon.com/how-to-build-a-startup-landing-page-in-velo-7beb33jh Good luck! Arthur Tkachenko Mar 9, 2021, 7:30 PM This article related to a writing contest hosted by Hacker Noon in partnership with Wix. Learn how to and take a shot at winning , from March 1st, 2021 to May 31st, 2021. enter here $1000 every month

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