Tips and Ideas for DigitalOcean Hackathon
Tags: dohackathon, webdev, productivity, mobile
Published: 2020-12-14 03:17:22

So, recently DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon was just announced on [Dev](https://dev.to/).

I thought I'd put together this list of things of which I think will be helpful resources for anybody partaking in this.

# Background

From 10 December 2020, to 10 January 2021, DigitalOcean App Platform Hackathon will be going on. You'll have a chance to win some cool prizes for building an application using DigitalOcean's new App Platform. 

There are for categories, which are 

 - Personal Site/Portfolio
 - Build an application related to mental health.
 - Build something that could become commercial and earn big bucks
 - Build a wacky app that doesn't fit into any of the categories above.

You can view the full post with the rules of the Hackathon and other useful info [here](https://dev.to/devteam/announcing-the-digitalocean-app-platform-hackathon-on-dev-2i1k)

# Personal Site/Portfolio

### Tips

 - [Video - 10 portfolio tips for web developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrWGr2OvBD4)
 - [Article - 8 Ideas that Will Make your Web Dev Portfolio Website Stand Out](https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-build-a-stunning-portfolio-website-as-a-web-developer/)
 - [Video - PRO vs AMATEUR Design Portfolio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T7SnBQDiuM&t=55s)
 - [Article - 10 Tips for Building A Killer Portfolio Website](https://www.creativebloq.com/portfolios/tips-portfolio-website-4137460)
 - [Video - 5 Tips to Make Your Portfolio Better](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn5zcCseRcg)

### Ideas/Inspiration

 - [Folio](https://ui8-folio.herokuapp.com/)
 - [Hoang Nguyen](https://hoang.moe/)
 - [Obys](https://obys.agency/)
 - [EleFolio](https://live.templately.com/elefolio/)
 - [Abhishek Jha](https://abhishekjha.me/)

# Mental health, public service, feel-good app

### Tips

 - [Article - How to Make Great Mental Health Apps](https://www.onlinetherapyinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/NewInnovations_Vol3_Issue415.pdf)
 - [Video - Making a COVID-19 Live Stats Website](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzUFQDP8B28)
 - [Article - 7 Tips for Creating an App to Help Mental Illness](https://www.sitepoint.com/7-tips-creating-app-help-mental-illness/)
 - [Article - 5 Mental Health App Ideas](https://digitalhealthbuzz.com/5-mental-health-app-ideas/)

### Ideas/Inspiration

 - [Noisli](https://www.noisli.com/)
 - [Mood Fit](https://www.getmoodfit.com/)
 - [Covid 19 India](https://www.covid19india.org/)
 - [Headspace](https://www.headspace.com/)
 - [MyLife](https://my.life/)

# Business - commerical application

### Tips

 - [Video - 9 small business ideas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8ljlnBAQI)
 - [Article - 44 Easy Online Business Ideas](https://www.justbusiness.com/starting-a-small-business/online-business-ideas)
 - [Video - High Paying Business Ideas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ZdXr2QF8A)
 - [Online Business Ideas](https://hacktheentrepreneur.com/online-business-ideas/)
 - [Video - Top 5 Online Business Ideas of 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1h58z1Jbww&ab_channel=TopThink)

### Ideas/Inspiration

 - [Aloe ECell](https://www.aloeecell.com/)
 - [Snackpass](https://www.snackpass.co/)
 - [Jackfruit360](http://jackfruit365.com/)
 - [CoachHub](https://coachhub.io/)
 - [Agnikul](https://www.agnikul.in/#/)

# Random

### Tips

 - [Article - Creative Coding](https://blog.prototypr.io/the-short-guide-to-generative-art-creative-coding-fc36ff163708)
 - [Video - Custom Camera](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM_Fm0_C8JA)
 - [Article - Examples of Three.js in Action](https://speckyboy.com/three-js-in-action/)
 - [Video - Art of Creative Coding](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBV14-3LT-g)
 - [Article - Creative JavaScript Projects](https://dev.to/lindelof/10-very-creative-javascript-projects-on-github-1j0n)

### Resources 

 - [SnapCamera](https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/)
 - [Creative Coding - Pts.js](https://ptsjs.org/demo/?name=pts.quickStart)
 - [Creative Coding - Anurag Hazra](https://anuraghazra.github.io/#creative-coding)
 - [Audio Fabric](https://tbaldw.in/audiofabric/)
 - [Pathfinding Visualiser](https://clementmihailescu.github.io/Pathfinding-Visualizer/)

And there you go, a list of awesome projects, tutorials, inspiration, tips, ideas, and more to help you.

Are you going to be participating in the Hackathon? I wished I could, though due to the minimum age requirement being 18+, I can't 🙁

If you found any inspiration from this, do let me know! I'd be glad to discuss what you all are building :smile: