The Web Development & Ecommerce Writing Contest: Round 1 Results Announced!

Devs, Assemble! Round 1 winners of The Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest are now announced! For those reading about it for the first time, here’s some context: HackerNoon and Elastic Path have brought you a super fun Web Development and Ecommerce Writing Contest. You can win from a whopping $12,000 prize pool by writing on web development or ecommerce.

Because we have given the readers more topics to write on, we have got twice the number of stories published and twice the number of winners this time!!! During the first round, we published 170 stories! That’s a new record made in the first month of the contest.

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Round 1 Nominations

For selecting the top 10 nominations, we picked all the stories with the #growth-marketingtag on HackerNoon, published in round 1. Then we chose the top stories using 60:30:10 weightage respectively to:

Number of hours read
The number of people reached
The freshness of the content

#Web-Development: Top 10 Stories

#Ecommerce: Top 10 Stories

Round 1 Winners

To select the winners, we ran internal polls on the top 10 nominations. Our editors weighed in, and here are the final results.

#Web-Development Contest Winners

With 29% of the total votes, in the first place, we have

https://hackernoon.com/an-intro-to-coding-for-kids-what-every-parent-should-know?embedable=true

Congratulations, @lomitpatel! Your story has resonated well with our readers and editors! You have won $1,000.

At its core, Coding is a creative process. It encourages children to ask questions and develop innovative solutions for them. It also requires experimentation and innovation, which help further strengthen creative and “whole brain” thinking. Children who code also tend to take these newly developed skills and use them in other areas of interest.

The second place is won by

https://hackernoon.com/maximize-your-react-skills-build-a-to-do-list-app-from-start-to-finish-with-typescript-vite?embedable=true

This guide will take you through the entire process of building a fully-functional to-do list app, including design, layout, state management, and more. We will be using functional components and hooks. We will learn how to use state and props to pass data between components, and how to handle user input and update the state of your app.

Congratulations,@emotta. You got 24% of the total votes from the Editors! You’ve won $600!

With 18% of the votes, @infinity has won third place and $400!!!

https://hackernoon.com/unlock-the-power-of-acid-properties-in-databases-a-comprehensive-guide-for-developers?embedable=true

A database that guarantees its transactions to be atomic means that either the transaction would be executed as a whole or not at all. It would never happen that a transaction is executed partially while the other part fails.

#Ecommerce Contest Winners

With 26% of the votes, the first place is won by

https://hackernoon.com/real-time-machine-learning-for-recommendations-and-search-engines?embedable=true

Personal recommendation systems improve the user experience, giving the user a good impression of your platform as a convenient service. It also helps to provide qualified guidance to customers thanks to less information load, offering precisely the product that the customer wants. In addition, the real-time machine allows you to make recommendations based on short-term user interests and real-time demand. This allows you to meet the buyer's needs and reduces the number of rejections. Also, real-time machine learning gathers valuable information for managers to improve logistics, supply, and marketing. Ultimately, this leads to an increase in revenue and conversion by an average of 6-18%.

Congratulations, @fedorgvozdev! You have won $500!

In second place with 21% of the votes, we have:

https://hackernoon.com/how-ai-can-help-ecommerce-survive-and-thrive-in-2023?embedable=true

In retail, artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a widely used tool to provide more efficient and personalized customer service. According to a recent study by Juniper Research, AI-powered chatbots are predicted to play a significant role in customer interactions over the next few years, handling 70% of customer conversations in 2023.

You won again,@nebojsa.todorovic! Excellent write-up, as always :)

With 21% of the votes and slightly lesser reads, the third place is won by:

https://hackernoon.com/metaverse-and-nfts-for-ecommerce-driving-sales-with-examples?embedable=true

As most small business owners and marketers already know, successful marketingmeans building and serving a community. And in many ways, NFTs and the metaverse give companies another way to build community. Thus, the skill sets and requirements needed for NFT and metaverse success are partially the same as those required to build a community anywhere else on the Internet.

Excellent story,@strateh76! You have won $200!

Congratulations to all the winners! We will contact y’all shortly. Those who have learned about the Web development and ecommerce writing contest today - The competition is on! Here’s how you can enter the contest today.