For the Love of Code is live!

[leereilly]

We're kicking off a fun, global hackathon celebrating joyful, ridiculous, and wildly creative coding projects.

It's called For the Love of Code.

Build fun little web apps, beautiful data visualizations, absurd games, experiments with AI, VR, or any other acronym you can think of. If it sparks joy or scratches and itch, we want to see it.

🗓️ Dates

• Start: July 16, 2025
• Deadline: September 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth / UTC−12)

🛠️ Categories

Submit entries in one of six categories:

🔘 Buttons, beeps, and blinkenlights – hardware hacks
🤖 Agents of change – bots, agents, AI experiments
🖥️ Terminal talent – command-line apps
🕹️ Game on – games of all kinds
🌐 World wide wonders – anything that runs in a browser
🃏 Everything but the kitchen sink – wildcard category for anything else

👉 Check out the blog post for more details on each category and example projects!

🏆 Prizes

• Copilot Pro+ for 1 year (for winners in each category – up to 3 per category)
• Featured on the GitHub Blog, Explore page, and Social Media

📖 Learn More

👉 Read the full blog post

💬 Got questions?

See the FAQ at the bottom of the blog post. Or drop a comment below.

Can't wait to see what you build! <3

❤️ Submit and share

Submit your entries via this form.

Share what you're building or see what other people are building with #ForTheLoveOfCode on 𝕏, BlueSky, Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, GitHub, YouTube.

PS: We want to make sure there is space for folks to ask questions without overwhelming readers with other conversations... and promotion of entries 😉 Please share your entries on social and not this thread 🙂 Thank you!

[rihabu]

sound's great !

[ChandanMohonto]

🛩

[horizoncarlo]

fyi

"A web app that takes a GitHub username and roasts them based on their contributions, commit messages, and questionable emoji use"

Already exists at https://github-roast.pages.dev/

[leereilly]

Oh Lee Reilly, a "Senior Program Manager @ GitHub"? More like Senior Program Mediocrity. Your bio is so vague it leaves more questions than answers—did you actually write those programs or just manage the people who did? And those emojis? They scream midlife crisis.

LOL 😆 /cc @peckjon

[facetsu]

On the Terms and Conditions page, it says:

“Team” and “Teams”
refers to a group of up to forty two (42) Contest participants working together to produce a single entry.

But in the blog it says:

Can I work with a team?
Yes! Solo or squad… your choice. GitHub Copilot makes a great pair (or peer) programmer. Limit your team to no more than 10 people.
How many times can I enter?
Up to 42 times. Don’t ask why. You know why.

What page is correct? I assume 10 team-members and 42 submissions as that is what is mentioned multiple times.
Thank you!

[leereilly]

Thanks - updated to confirm up to 10 team members!

[brentbuffham]

Can it be a 30k line monolithic free web app actively being developed that is under appreciated??? 🥴 https://blastingapps.com/kirra.html

[kamiri-charles]

Anyone wanna team up to build a web app? Doesn't have to be anything fancy...

[coolguy-sree]

Yeah, i'm interested.

[kamiri-charles]

I'll send you an email...

[Balaji01-4D]

Can I submit multiple GitHub repositories for single project in the “For the Love of Code”?

I'm building a website with separate frontend and backend repos. Should I combine them into one, or is it acceptable to submit multiple linked repositories for the same project?

[kalaruttan-sys]

Yes, you can, but you gotta make sure you have a really good back at.Make sure they will handle everything.Make sure you have everything set up.You need to do which is your kind of building

[human-coder-mj]

Hey @leereilly , I completed this idea [An LLM-powered changelog writer that wildly over-dramatizes every update. “Fixed minor bug” → “Vanquished a lurking menace that corrupted the sacred login flow."], two weeks ago and wanted to know if I can take another idea for next build.

[leereilly]

Of course! :)

[kalaruttan-sys]

Yeah that is really fun. More fun with it showing showing friends and family we're learning

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[human-coder-mj]

Hey @kalaruttan-sys this was what I build https://github.com/human-coder-mj/Epic-Logger-Agent

[kalaruttan-sys]

Hey bro, You put me in the box. I used it as my regular system and I can cook up one hell of corrupted system if you want. On Thu, Sep 4, 2025, 5:14 a.m. Kala Rhodes Ruttan ***@***.***> wrote:

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Yeah that is really fun. More fun with it showing showing friends and family we're learning On Thu, Sep 4, 2025, 5:12 a.m. Manas Jha ***@***.***> wrote: > Hey @leereilly <https://github.com/leereilly> , I completed this idea > [An LLM-powered changelog writer that wildly over-dramatizes every update. > “Fixed minor bug” → “Vanquished a lurking menace that corrupted the sacred > login flow."], two weeks ago and wanted to know if I can take another idea > for next build. > > — > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#166366 (comment)>, > or unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BU5VIQDE3E7W4PAPMALUWVL3Q766PAVCNFSM6AAAAACBVGHJUWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTIMZQGUZTOMQ> > . > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message > ID: ***@***.*** > .com> >

[kalaruttan-sys]

No am done

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[NamSaga]

private repo goes T T

[rawrnuck]

hey, can we changes to repo after submission?
is it allowed? like we submitted before time, and we want to update our readme and add media in it, so is that allowed?

[rajin-khan]

When and where will the winners be announced?

[leereilly]

You'll see them on the GitHub Blog later today :)

[rajin-khan]

Can't wait!😭

[leereilly]

Announcing our winners 🎉
https://github.blog/open-source/from-karaoke-terminals-to-ai-resumes-the-winners-of-githubs-for-the-love-of-code-challenge/

So many great projects. I hope you all had fun!!! <3

[Prithwis-2023]

Hello, are we supposed to get an email if we win, because we did and didn't receive any further communication

[shirsakm]

@Prithwis-2023 Yeah, it's the same for me. I figured category winners meant the top entry from each category. Though, I am not sure.

[Prithwis-2023]

It's obvious if you see the bottom of the article when they list the winning github usernames. I am sure there will be more info in the upcoming days

[leereilly]

Hi there and congrats on winning! Emails will go out early next week with prize info.

[shirsakm]

Can anyone corroborate they have received the mail? Because I haven't, so I was just wondering.

[Prithwis-2023]

Same here!

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