Noonies 2020 Voting Opens: $10K+ & 3K+ Yrs Domain Registration Up for Grabs

In case you've not yet had the pleasure: The 2020 Noonies - presented by hackernoon.com - are not only the only Industry Awards you don't have to be an influencer to win, but also the most community-driven tech awards on the internet.

There are over 200 Tech Industry Awards and prizes up for grabs this year -- not to mention a prize pool valued at over $10,000 -- including:

• TOP PROGRAMMING GURU: Thank you to .TECH Domains for this award's prizes, which include: a $ 3000 Cash Prize + a Free 10-yr domain for the winner.
  
• MOST OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR IN TECH: Shoutout to Skillsoft for this award's prizes and the prize for Hacker Noon Contributor of the Year - WOMEN IN TECH, which both include 1 Year FREE Access to Percipio to the Winner.
  
• BEST WEB MONETIZATION INNOVATOR: A huge thanks to Grant for the Web for this award's prize, as well the prizes for BEST WEB MONETIZED DIGITAL ARTIST and BEST WEB MONETIZED BLOGGER, which ALL include: a $1000 award for the eventual winner (!!!)

Click here to check out all 200+ Awards and Prizes in this year's Annual Noonies.

"Improving on our stack from last year, we've built this year's Noonies on -- the now much loved by the whole Hacker Noon dev team -- Next.js, and refactored a lot of it to take advantage of the ever-shifting 'current' standards of evolving technologies," explains Hacker Noon's lead full-stack developer on the project, Storm Farrell.

"The result is a more robust, future-proof and feature-rich 2.0 submission and voting platform."

"It's incredible to see the broader tech community come together -- in these unprecedented times -- to sponsor big award prizes for top technologists, makers, and creators in tech today," said David Smooke, CEO and Founder of Hacker Noon.

"We're excited about the opportunity to recognize and reward the people in our global community who are working to make the internet a better place."

Opportunities to Sponsor the 2020 Noonies are still open -- learn more here.

"The 'why' behind this year's better, bigger, and longer Noonies campaign is to give the community the chance to make sure everybody who deserves the recognition of being nominated for a Hacker Noon tech industry award this year gets the chance to be included," says Natasha Nel, Hacker Noon's Managing Editor.

"I'm looking forward to getting to know all of our 2000+ nominees via hackernoon.com blog interviews, Hacker Noon Podcasts, and our upcoming AMA series."

Public Nominations for the 2020 Noonies close on Wednesday, 12 August, and voting will open Thursday, 13 August, 2020. Winners will be announced 13 October, 2020.

For more information, or to request an interview with any of Hacker Noon's 2020 Noonie Nominees, reach out to Natasha on Twitter @natashanoon.

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About the Noonies

The Noonies are an annual tech industry awards event, presented online by Hacker Noon, built to recognize and reward the most innovative people and products in technology today. Conceptualized in early 2019, Hacker Noon's first annual Noonies celebrated the contributions of over 500 internally and publicly nominated technologists, thinkers, makers, and leaders in tech. The second edition will run for an extended period of three months, with public nominations open for a full month from July 13 to August 12, with voting open for two months, from August 13 to October 13.