Builder Spotlight: Meet @codeswithroh, one of the winning builders from the @PL__Genesis Frontiers of Collaboration Hackathon & a DevSpot community builder.
He locked his principal. Let the yield take the hits. That's YOLDR.
Then people actually started using it.
@codeswithroh posted on X. Testers showed up fast enough to take the servers down. Logs open, fixes going live while users were still hitting the app.
It held.
Full report: devspot.app/report/h1-2026
1/ We're publishing one section of our H1 Builder Ecosystem Report each day this week.
Today: what 11 hackathons across 10 months actually looks like.
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5/ 11 events. $370K in prize capital deployed.
Hacklanta — no published prize pool but produced the highest average quality scores of any event.
Prize size doesn't predict quality.
Micathon wrapped up at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology in Pakistan.
36 hours. 47 teams.
Here are the results 👇
In case you missed it:
8,382 builders. 70+ countries. 9.9% came back for a second event.
The builder pipeline is real.
DevSpot retweeted
FINAL CALL to get your applications in for World Build 3!
Applications for World Build 3 close in TWO days!
Over five months, top builders move from hackathon to real users, from early traction to funding, from building to pitching in San Francisco.
It’s not about launching, it’s about scaling, and that starts with the hack.
*If you are already building on World, check the website to skip the hack and join us on Stage 2.







