Developers are at the core of what makes Redis one of the most popular and most loved databases. This year at RedisConf 21, we hosted the “Build on Redis” Hackathon, our largest one to date! Today, we are thrilled to announce the winners of the $100K in prizes!
At the Hackathon, participants explored a wide range of possibilities within the Redis portfolio, leveraging the advanced capabilities of our real-time data platform. Specifically, we encouraged them to explore the ecosystem of modules such as RediSearch (4x–100x times faster than the market leader), RedisJSON (10x faster), and so on. We were eager to see what they came up with and boy, did they deliver!
The below pie chart shows the distribution of different modules the winners used to build their apps.
- The top-three modules used are: RedisJSON (34.9%), RediSearch (21.7%), and RedisGraph (13.3%).
- About 60% of the winners used multiple modules to implement complex use cases which wouldn’t be that simple in any other database.
In our estimation, virtually all the teams spent anywhere between two to four weeks building these projects. They went above and beyond to build really useful and interesting apps that amazed all of our judges. Don’t take our word for it, just watch the video, look at the code, or look at the in-depth documentation!
It’s truly humbling to see how passionate the Redis community is and how much time and effort they put into building these apps.
Congratulations to all the winners! Your check is in the mail!
Here are a few quotes from the winners:
“I had worked with Redis as a cache before, I had no idea you could do so much more with it! It’s easy to use and it’s FAST.”—Niek Candaele, Software Engineer, Stampix (Project: Feature Creep)
“It was a lot of fun learning all the new features of Redis while participating in the hackathon! It’s so much more than just a cache now.”—Tinco Andringa, Lead Engineer, AeroScan (Project: Topscorio)
“The hackathon was an awesome opportunity to learn more about Redis, notably the powerful modules I haven’t used before. Building my first ever graph database was easy using Redis, its documentation and its client libraries were great.”—Mitch Ward, Sr. Engineer, Datadog (Project: NYC Bike)
“The hackathon was so much fun and I learned a lot. Thanks, Redis!”—Matteus Hemström, Software Engineer (Project: Pizza Tribes)
“Redis and Redis’ ecosystem has a lot of offer for data scientists and engineers taking their ideas into production.“—Dr. Alexander Mikhalev, Tech Lead, National Building Society (Project: The Patterns)
$10,000 Platinum Prize Winners
| Team Lead | Project name | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
 Dustin Wilson | HSL Transit Tracking: This app uses Redis as a backend for real-time tracking of vehicles in the Helsinki metro system.  |  Video |
 Niek Candaele | Feature Creep: An application to manage squad health checks, which is a type of agile meeting. |  Video |
 Dr. Alexander Mikhalev | The Pattern: Machine Learning Natural Language Processing meets VR/AR: Help find relevant knowledge using Artificial Intelligence and novel UX elements, all powered by Redis—new generation real-time data fabric turned into knowledge fabric. |  Video |
 Piyush Jain | Dronification of Crop-insurance Powered by Drone, Redis Modules, and Azure Cloud technologies: An application that enables crop insurance companies to generate insurance policies and claim settlements. |  Video |
 Florian Dejonckheere | Code Red: A task management app using graphs to represent tasks and resources. |  Video |
$5,000 Diamond Prize Winners
| Team Lead | Project name | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
 Mitch Ward | NYC Bike: A visual geospatial index of over 58 million bikeshare trips across NYC. |  Video |
 Sergio Cano | X-Mentor: An e-learning platform powered by Redis. |  Video |
$2,000 Gold Prize Winners
| Team Lead | Project name | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
 Sarthak Arora | Reeko Slack Bot: An app to search and summarise documents using Reeko Slack Bot. |  Video |
 Matt Pileggi | Letus: Built on the speed and power of RedisGraph, Letus is an exciting new social network that encourages natural interactions the way they occur in real life. |  Video |
 Thiago Camargo | B and A: Scalable Redis Based A/B Testing Backend Service: A service to provide an open, real-time, scalable, and Redis based A/B Testing Backend Service. |  Video |
 Janis Vilks | Active-Active Geo-Distributed Multiplayer top-down arcade shooter: The world’s first Active-Active Geo-Distributed Multiplayer top-down arcade shooter. |  Video |
 Graham Pinsent | Redis-Racing: A competitive web racing game built on Redis. |  Video |
$1,000 Silver Prize Winners
| Team Lead | Project name | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
 Alexis Gardin | Logub: An application to collect, explore, and analyze application logs. |  Video |
 Ian Hunter | Rel: The fully customizable backend-as-a-service written on RedisGraph. |  Video |
 Marko Arezina | Awesome Search: A search community that curates awesome list resources directly from Raycast or your CLI! |  Video |
Matthias Hasler | Movify: The social network for cinephiles that’s built on RedisGraph and TMDB API. |  Video |
 Franco Chen | Spatial.dj: A platform that allows music listeners to explore new music and listen to their favorite songs with others in rooms. |  Video |
 Bobby Donchev | Alexis: Index your PDFs and use a simple UI to extract answers from your documents! |  Video |
 Rajesh Ramamurthy | GreenEarth: An application for users to interact and collaborate on recycling projects. |  Video |
 Matteus Hemström | Pizza Tribes: A multiplayer persistent browser-based game. |  Video |
 Aleksandr Markenzon | RediTeam: A tool for matchmaking employees and teams within a company to a specific position or department. |  Video |
 Yash Kumar Verma | Hentry: A hackathon sentry that allows organizers to provide a fair competing platform in the online events. |  Video |
 Sandeep Gupta | ReRead: A self-hosted RSS reader for the desktop. |  Video |
 Antonis Anagnostou | ABettaMe: Helps you perform experiments about things you want to change in your life. |  Video |
 Byron Rosas | HELPLANET: An application that allows people to notify a community when an event occurs |  Video |
 Tinco Andringa | Topscorio: A global scale for real-time top scorekeeping for games, with anti-cheat and an easy sign up. |  Video |
 Niti Singhal | YipYip: A SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) starter-kit that allows startups or small businesses to build their products, without worrying about boilerplate services. |  Video |
 Patrick DeVivo | Reqlite: A runtime-loadable SQLite extension that enables SQL queries on data in Redis. |  Video |
 Arun Gautham Rajarao | TrackNgin: An application that allows you to locate and track specific people and vehicles. |  Video |
 Baruch Kogan | CrowsNest: A management console that allows users to select videos and choose different TensorFlow models to process them with. | Video |
 Pipe Gutierrez | Quest: AWS-SQS on Redis! Throughput and visibility timeouts are now limited to Redis scale. |  Video |
 Mohanraj Nagasamy | Real-time GraphQL using Redis Streams and RediSearch: Showcases how to use real-time GraphQL using Redis Streams and real-time search using RediSearch in Java. |  Video |
$500 Bronze Prize Winners
| Team Lead | Project name | YouTube |
|---|---|---|
 Shamin Meerankutty | Redis Realtime: A set of packages for React and Node.js to implement a real-time database with Redis Pub/Sub and RedisJSON. |  Video |
Shamshir Anees | Digital Auction: A SaaS platform for conducting next generation Digital Auctions. |  Video |
 Pieter du Preez | Redis-plus-plus-modules: This project aims to supply a C++ interface library to all major/popular Redis modules. |  Video |
 Vishrut Kohli | BONSAI: An end-to-end business decision storage, change management, and monitoring system. |  Video |
 Muntaser Syed | Redisafe: Live health tracking and contact tracing on a Redis powered blockchain. |  Video |
 Josh Durham | COVID-19 Resource Graph: A live-updating, crowdsourced dashboard that connects places with excess supply of masks, oxygen, and vaccines to places lacking in such supplies. |  Video |
 Suprit Kulkarni | Semanti-Search: An information retrieval tool built on semantic search capabilities for large codebases and stack overflow questions. | Video |
 Mohamed Fazaary A S | Fast Search Engine for Datasets: Plug and play any dataset and have searchable UI with autocomplete features using RediSearch. |  Video |
 Amir Goldental | MatlabRedisCluster: A lightweight Matlab-distributed computing framework based on Redis. |  Video |
 Arhaan Bahadur | Sahay: Consolidating the Healthcare System: A medium where hospitals can be heard better. Never face a crisis again. Never face a shortage again. |  Video |
 Eric Offermann | Config-As-A-Service: A generic profile configuration and data store system on top of Redis, which also provides dynamic push of new key/value pairs when defined by the Sys Admin. |  Video |
 Yanan Valencia | BlobChat: A text-based chatting app that lets users explore while avoiding the awkwardness of ever saying bye. |  Video |
 Arnab Choudhuri | RedMetrix: A custom web analytic tool using RedisTimeSeries. |  Video |
 David Floegel | Overtones: An ear training game designed for musicians that tests how good your ears are. |  Video |
 Sanskar Jaiswal | Cowin Emailer: This project aims to alert users living in India about vaccine availability by sending them an email. |  Video |
 Bhanu Korthiwada | Zindagi: A project to solve blood donations and campaigns across generic public and organizations. |  Video |
 David Ayeke | Redisstore: A self-hosted firebase firestore equivalent for Redis. |  Video |
 Lorem Ipsum | All.chat.redis: A Node.js demo chat app where all rooms are on the home page. |  Video |
 Corey Cleary | Auctioneer: An auction app that showcases using Redis Streams and the RedisJSON module, allowing you to bid on items in real-time. |  Video |
Chris Toledo | Bitcoin Option Market Data Logging and Implied Volatility Skew Viz: A Bokeh application using RedisTimeSeries as a store for individual option bid/ask prices, as well as a Pub/Sub system to route live updates to charts. |  Video |