The day has come: the first ever Railway User Hackathon winners have been chosen!

We had incredible creativity from the Railway community and saw projects ranging from using Railway primitives to helping farmers.

Drumroll please… 🥁

Winners: Project Complexity

1️⃣ 1st place: Switchyard, an autoscaling infrastructure platform

2️⃣ 2nd place: Rundown, an AI-first RSS reader

3️⃣ 3rd place: Pushflow, a web push notification management system

What we loved: these projects combined several services and variables to do something novel and creative. We believe all of these could be useful to our users.

Honorable mentions:

• Teamx - Appwrite, a team collaboration app
• Logcar, a Railway-native database using logs
• Railway service cron, for scheduling your deployments
• Rails 8 starter stack
• Remotion, a video generation server Rails deployment
• Wordpress with Redis implementation

Winners: Content Depth

1️⃣ 1st place: Remotion, a video generation server guide

2️⃣ 2nd place: Railway + Terminus, an e-ink dashboard for deployments

3️⃣ 3rd place: Mosaic, a knowledge management system

What we loved: these content pieces address specific use cases while incorporating Railway’s primitives. They explain in detail how the use case can be addressed on Railway.

Honorable mentions:

• Multi-agent LLM monorepo
• Cohere, for AI docs search
• Team management software
• Full-stack waste management app
• Deploying AI projects guide
• A translation service for farmers

Checkout the projects community members chose to share from the hackathon in our help station voting thread. Thank you SO MUCH to our community for such amazing submissions.

In the meantime, try out one of the 58 new templates created, and see you at the next hackathon!