DEV’s Big Summer Bug Smash is now LIVE! Share $5,000 in cash prizes, skateboards, and more across 20+ winners. 🐛🐞🪲

Today is National Be Nice to Bugs Day in the U.S. and we’re thrilled to launch our Big Summer Bug Smash powered by Sentry. This smashing good time invites you to identify your biggest rockstar bugs and treat them to an epic grand finale.

Whether you’re optimizing the performance of your newest side project or reminiscing on an old #hugops story, we want to hear about it! There are prompts for both builders and writers and a $5,000 prize pool up for grabs, including exclusive Sentry skateboards!

Scroll for a preview of our prompts and prize categories.

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Prize Categories

We'll have 20+ winners across five different prize categories for this challenge:

• Clear the Lineup: Awarded to the most impactful and well executed bug fixes or optimizations in an existing codebase.
• Smash Stories: Awarded to the best write-ups of a chaotic bug you caught or a clever performance optimization you pulled off.
• Best Use of Sentry: Awarded to the best Clear the Lineup submissions that utilized Sentry to improve an application.
• Best Use of Google AI: Awarded to the best Clear the Lineup submissions that utilized Google AI to improve an application.
• Runner-Up: Awarded to outstanding submissions across all prompts that demonstrate exceptional impact and quality.

Winners will share from a $5,000 prize pool. In addition to cash prize, Best Use of Sentry winners will also receive a Limited Edition Sentry Skateboard!

Pro Tip: since prize category winners are drawn from a smaller pool of submissions, your odds of taking home a prize are meaningfully higher.

All participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

Resources

To help folks get started with Sentry, the Sentry team is holding a live demo on DEV on July 30 at 11am PT/2pm ET.

Explore Sentry and add any questions you have ahead of the stream to this post so they'll answer your questions live:

Chasing the Sentry prize for DEV's Summer Bug Smash? Let us know what questions you have.

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For a full list of resources, head over to the official Bug Smash landing page:

Important Dates

• July 14: Summer Bug Smash begins!
• July 30 at 11am PT: Getting started with Sentry: Live demo and Q&A
• August 23: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
• September 17: Winners Announced

Questions about the challenge? Drop them in the comments below.

We can't wait to see your smashing submissions — good luck!