Rote Playoffs hackathon is live NOW - a solo online hackathon where the challenge is simple, build one useful Play that others can actually run.

You have one week to pick a workflow you repeat often, turn it into something reusable, and publish it to the community.

Prizes include a Apple MacBook Pro, iPad, iPhone 17, and Apple Watches. To get started, register on Luma, finish the setup guide, complete the warm-up, and start building.

All details and registration: https://luma.com/rotehack

We have crossed 10,000 followers on Instagram!

Over the years WeMakeDevs has become a place where developers sharpen their skills through technical events, where students learn by building instead of just watching, and where companies find the kind of talent and engagement that comes from people who actually show up and do the work.

That same energy is now going into the Bharat Builds Tour, our six-city hackathon series having prizes worth 1 crore, opening in Bangalore on September 17: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit

Our founder sat down with Barton George at All Things Open to talk about what four years of building WeMakeDevs into a 200,000+ member community has taught him about open source and technical education.

The conversation traces his own path from a freshman year contribution to a Kubernetes Java client at Red Hat to now paying it forward through scholarships that fly community members to conferences like KubeCon.

He also gets into where open source is headed with AI in the mix and advices for anyone trying to break into tech: stop waiting to feel like an expert and just start building.

Watch full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCBQXp9aF5s&t=4s

Better than most college lectures honestly, there's a Discord where engineers build stuff live and you can just ask them things in the chat while it happens.

👉 Absolute goldmine: https://fandf.co/4wgS8fN

You also get $300 in cloud credits!

You can land an Amazon interview by building something at a hackathon, skipping the screening round! :handshake:

Bharat Builds is a six-city hackathon tour across India with AWS Builder Center. Build in person or online, and if your project gets shortlisted you go straight into Amazon interviews for internships or full-time roles :sunglasses:

There are prizes worth ₹1 crore and cloud credits to grab, and mentorship by AWS Developers.

Event one is live now. Register at https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

Stop grinding DSA just to get a job. Do this instead: https://lnkd.in/p/exBWm-Cd

Stop tailoring your resume just to get a higher ATS score.

We know what that grind feels like, especially if you're not from a top tier college. Recruiters skip your campus, the ATS filters you out before a human even opens your resume, and no amount of formatting fixes that.

That's why we built Bharat Builds with AWS Builder Center. Ship insightful projects across the 6 hackathons, and let them speak instead of your resume. Top projects go straight to a fast track interview with Amazon recruiters, no screening round in between.

You get to build with AWS developers, compete for prize pool worth of ₹1 crore, receive developer gadgets and much more 👇🏻

Register at http://wemakedevs.org/aws

#bharatbuilds

We are excited to be a community partner for AWS Community Day Mumbai 2026! 🚀

📅 17 October 2026 | 📍 Nesco Grande, Mumbai.
🔗 Conference details: https://acd.awsugmum.in/

Cloud builders, AWS Heroes, Community Builders, and technology leaders are coming together for a day of talks, hands-on workshops, and real AWS stories across cloud-native, data, and GenAI.

We are giving away ONE FREE TICKET to a student registering for Bharat Build Tour: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

Not the lucky one? Use code wemakedevs for 15% off your ticket!

I failed JEE twice and thought my career was over. A YouTube video from Kota had told me it was IIT or nothing.

Here's what I did instead, and the biggest opportunity for every student in India right now: https://lnkd.in/p/eWxKdahn

🚨 Get your ticket for Bharat Builds Tour NOW!

The tour has prizes worth ₹1 crore up for grabs, top students get fast tracked interviews for Amazon internships and full time roles (no screening round), work alongside AWS Developers, receive developer gadgets and more.

🏃 Get yours at https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

Once you've generated your ticket, share it on your socials using #bharatbuilds and don't forget to tag us and AWS Developers.

We're hosting the first in-person edition of the Bharat Builds Tour in Bangalore city 🚀

👨‍💻 Event Name: First Commit
📍 Venue: Polaris School of Technology
📆 Date: September 19

If you're a student who wants to build a insightful project, this is the day to show up. Build projects offline, attend AWS workshops, get live feedback by AWS experts, and talk to the Amazon team building the services you're using.

🚀 Top projects winners can skip screening rounds and get fast-track interviews at Amazon for internships and full-time roles.

⏳ Seats are limited, apply FAST to attend: https://luma.com/first-commit

#bharatbuilds

Learning cloud and AI can quickly turn into a cycle of watching tutorials, trying new tools, and wondering where to actually begin building.

With the Bharat Builds Tour, we’re creating a space for university students across India to learn by building real projects, with access to AWS experts, hands-on resources, and a community of other builders.

We published a blog on why building is often the best way to learn and how you can get started with the Bharat Builds Tour.

Read the blog: https://www.wemakedevs.org/blogs/bharat-builds-cloud-and-ai

Announcing the Agent Harness Hackathon winners! 🏆

Here are the winners who stood out with their projects and made an impact:

🏆 Elijah Umana
Best Use of TrueFoundry → NVIDIA DGX Spark

📱 Nelson Lai
Best Code Quality Qodo → Mac Mini

🎧 Biswajeet Sahoo & Priyanshu Kiran Solanki
Best Use of Bright Data → Apple AirPods

Huge congratulations to all our winners, and thank you to everyone who built with us! 🚀

Ready to build something of your own? Explore the Bharat Builds Tour: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

Amazon Is Hiring. Your College Tier Doesn't Matter: https://lnkd.in/p/eddRaHSC

Announcing the Into the Scrape-Verse winners! 🕷️🏆

Here are the projects that stood out:
🏆 Nitish Mane
Grand Prize → NVIDIA DGX Spark

🔬 Ben O'Connor, Gracelyn N. & Hugh Hoford
Best Use of Bright Data → NVIDIA DGX Spark

📱 Himanshu Jha
Best UI → Apple iPad

Huge congratulations to all our winners, and thank you to everyone who built with us! 🚀

A big shoutout to our sponsors Bright Data, Port, and SigNoz for making this hackathon possible. 🙌

Ready to build? Explore the Bharat Builds Tour: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

What does it take to win an Amazon hackathon and turn your development skills into a 6-month internship?

I sat down with team HackOGs, one of the winning teams at Amazon HackOn, to find out.

In this episode:
🛠️ Their experience with hackathons so far
🏆 The strategies that helped them win
🎯 Tips for students who want to get started
⚖️ How they balance hackathons with college life
🔄 What to do if you're not from a computer science background

Watch: https://x.com/kunalstwt/status/2098401167734665594
Got questions? Leave those in the comments.

Every student needs a home base of resources, and for Bharat Build Tour that's AWS Builder Center. It's FREE, no credit card needed, and takes about two minutes to sign up.

Once you're verified as a student, you unlock hands-on AWS workshops, $100 in AWS credits, free 8-hour sandbox environments to experiment in without needing your own AWS account, curated learning paths, and a public builder profile.

Set this up before 17th to get straight into building for the First Commit hackathon: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit

Hey everyone ❤️

Thanks for being part of this community. We're growing fast and there's a lot coming your way.

Today I want to talk about judging ✅

We're launching a new judging portal on Monday. Scores, comments, and who all the judges are, everything publicly visible in one place. We've built our own SaaS platform for this, moving away from Google Sheets, so the whole process is way more streamlined going forward.

All projects are already up on our website. For our previous events, judging was done by our sponsors, we'll also be uploading their scores and comments on why those projects won, so you can go check those out.

We're also opening a feedback portal on our website. If you've got thoughts on how we can make events better, we want them.

The website is now home for everything, projects, judging, scores, feedback. Discord stays our space for the community and for talking to you directly.

Thanks for building with us. A lot more is coming.

10,000+ students have already registered for the Bharat Builds Tour, India’s largest nationwide student hackathon series, in collaboration with AWS Builder Center 🇮🇳

We’re bringing incredible opportunities to students across India with prizes worth ₹1 crore, fast-track interview opportunities with Amazon, the chance to build alongside AWS Developers.

First Commit, the first offline edition of the Bharat Builds Tour, is happening on 19th September in Bengaluru.

Register NOW at https://luma.com/first-commit

20 LAKHS worth in prizes for First Commit Hackathon, part of the Bharat Builds Tour.

- Ship It, first prize: 2 lakh cash + $3,000 in AWS credits
- Build It, second prize: 1.5 lakh cash + $2,000 in AWS credits
- Best UI, third prize: 1 lakh cash + $3,000 in AWS credits

Top projects gets a fast-tracked interview at Amazon, for full-time roles and internships both.

Bring your idea, your team, and your laptop. Build something real, ship it, and see where it takes you: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit

In Bangalore? Join us in-person: https://luma.com/first-commit

We're hiring a technical writer at WeMakeDevs, part-time and paid.

Looking for someone who writes solid technical blogs, has actually used cloud providers hands-on, can pick up new dev and AI tools without much hand-holding, and genuinely likes explaining things to other people.

If that sounds like you, email a few of your technical articles to kunal@wemakedevs.org.