Nobody knows where the next great project, tool or team will be born, but there’s a solid chance it’ll be by people kicking it over at ETHOnline.
This year, Blockless had the honor of taking part in the three-week online hackathon as a partner, providing an array of challenges — and cash prizes — for the event’s community of talented builders. We were delighted at the interest shown by ETHOnline’s audience — with builders all over the world finding new ways of making our tech stack easy to use.
Today, we’re excited to announce our two prizewinners. Both teams were chosen from the Best Tooling for the Blockless Network contest, impressing the judges with elegant solutions designed to improve the developer experience.
Blockless Wizard was the winner of one award. The project, created by Prabal Parihar and Nikhil Verma, is a Blockless extension designed to speed up development on Blockless. The Wizard employs VS Code and automates a number of common tasks in the Blockless Network Command Line Interface (CLI), the primary interface used by Blockless developers.
Besides streamlining the installation and initialization processes required by the CLI, the Wizard allows developers to deploy Serverless Functions and Static Sites to Bless directly from VS Code, removing the need to switch between the terminal and the network.
The judges lauded the Blockless Wizard for its convenience, practicality and user-friendly design. The entire Blockless team was blown away by Prabal and Nikhil’s efforts and we’re excited to see their next development project.
The second prizewinning entry was Teckdoc, a project by BertrandBuild and Yohan Regnier. Teckdoc is an AI-assisted solution designed to streamline the navigation of developer documentation. As Bertrand and Yohan point out in the explainer accompanying Teckdoc, the reams of data published by developers can deter new users — it can be difficult to know where to start with the documentation for an unfamiliar platform. Using the L1 AI Galadriel, Teckdoc allows users to search documentation and ask questions about anything they choose. The LLM can simplify difficult concepts, address queries and suggest next steps, making the documentation experience intuitive and straightforward.
The judges praised Teckdoc as incredibly promising and applauded its wide applicability across Web3 platforms — while Teckdoc was demoed with Blockless, it can be used alongside any documentation set.
Blockless will be taking part in the upcoming ETHGlobal San Francisco (October 18–20, 2024), where we’ll be staging new contests and offering new prizes. We can’t wait to see what you build next.
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