Telegram Contests

2024-04-16 20:10:21 Design Competition 2024

Prize fund: Up to $30,000
Deadline: 23:59 Dubai time @ April 27th, 2024
Who can participate: Everyone

Telegram announces a competition for UI designers. The top prize is $5,000, and the winner may get a chance to join the Telegram Design team.

The Task is to create 3 short demo videos for 3 different features in the same manner as the demonstrations from the Telegram Blog.

Each video should offer a brief overview of a feature that currently does not exist in official Telegram apps.

You are welcome to use any ideas (e.g., in-app payments or a feed for channels). Be creative, but don't get carried away by things like a major app redesign.

It is mandatory to cover both iOS and Android – at least 1 video out of 3 must be made for a different platform. Entries featuring all videos for both platforms are likely to get higher chances in the final scoring, provided that they fulfill the evaluation criteria.

Evaluation Criteria:
While evaluating submissions, the judges may apply the following criteria to determine the winners:

Clarity – the general audience must have a clear understanding of how the feature you are displaying works.

Consistency – the video should be looped, with smooth transitions between screens and all elements should be consistent and balanced.

Completeness – you must present a finalized flow for your feature. Your video should show an entry point from existing Telegram interfaces, a brief overview of the feature's main components and a transition back to the entry point.

Submissions:
We will publish instructions how to submit your work closer to the deadline. Open / Comment

2024-02-04 23:54:47 Telegram Сontest for JS Developers, Round 1: Results

After many hours of testing and watching hundreds of Live Streams, we are now ready to announce the results. From a total of 19 submissions, 13 contestants qualified for prizes – basically every developer who implemented at least one part of the overall task.

Despite a challenging Contest Task and a tight deadline, we were happy to see many solid apps. Despite nobody achieving perfect Live Streams (each implementation we tested requires a significant amount of further polishing), we would like to give a special thanks to Fit Whale, who was able to find a great minimalist solution for Task II that will be merged with Web K soon. Dreamy Crow presented a similar approach that is slightly less optimal, but still notable.

Meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $6,000
Fit Whale

2nd PLACE – $3,000
Dreamy Crow
Hip Hyena
Large Moth
Sweet Yak
Giant Turkey

3rd PLACE – $1,500
Fierce Frog
Large Butterfly
Tidy Hawk
Dreamy Crab
Holy Beetle
Tidy Walrus penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$250)
Huge Cobra penalties:
– Task II plagiarism (–$500)

P.S. Have a great Monday and stay tuned for Round 2 in the coming weeks! Open / Comment

2024-01-21 01:40:54 Telegram JavaScript Contest: Submissions Build the application, then prepare: - A ZIP-archive with the following structure: -> public - folder with the build. -> src - folder with the app's source code. -> readme.txt – a text file that briefly describes… Open / Comment

2024-01-21 01:40:53 Telegram JavaScript Contest: Submissions

Build the application, then prepare:
- A ZIP-archive with the following structure:
-> public - folder with the build.
-> src - folder with the app's source code.
-> readme.txt – a text file that briefly describes the approach used for each task, listing all external dependencies and libraries you've added. If the bonus task has been completed, a detailed explanation must be included for it.
- A link to the commit on a public GitHub repository, forked from the Telegram Web K repository. Your repository may stay private until the deadline.

Note: To build the application you have to make some changes in vite module: replace the file node_modules/vite/dist/node/chunks/dep-R0I0XnyH.js with the one attached below.

Note 2: @ContestBot will begin accepting submissions within the next 12 hours. To submit, you'll need to start the bot, select “JS Contest R1”, answer the bot’s questions, and then send your archive along with the commit link.

Good luck! Open / Comment

2024-01-10 22:50:44 Telegram Contest for JavaScript Developers, Round 1 Prize fund: $30,000 Deadline: 23:59 on January 21st (Dubai time) Who can participate: Everyone Results: February 4th, 2024 Telegram is hosting a contest for JavaScript developers to implement Live Streaming… Open / Comment

2024-01-10 22:50:43 Telegram Contest for JavaScript Developers, Round 1

Prize fund: $30,000
Deadline: 23:59 on January 21st (Dubai time)
Who can participate: Everyone
Results: February 4th, 2024

Telegram is hosting a contest for JavaScript developers to implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web and enhance video playback capabilities in specific browsers.

The Task:
1. Implement Live Streaming into Telegram Web K based on the provided mockups.
2. Introduce a workaround for a Chromium bug that prevents certain videos from being played.

For an in-depth task description, further details and a bonus task, please refer to this document

Evaluation Criteria and Requirements:
General
– No third-party UI frameworks are allowed.
– The submission must be consistent with the existing Web K codebase.
– Your implementation must work flawlessly on desktop Chrome (across Linux, macOS, Windows) and Safari on macOS. Proper support for other browsers and mobile environments (Android, iOS) will be considered a bonus.

Your app must precisely follow the provided design mockups. Entries that fail to do so will be severely penalized.

Live Streaming
– The most preferable outcome can be achieved by re-using parts of dash.js. However, you may opt for your own approach, provided that the final result is not inferior to the implementation present in Telegram's native apps.

Submissions:
Contestants will be able to submit their entries to @ContestBot at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

P.S. Winners may be offered a chance to explore further opportunities with Telegram. Open / Comment

2023-12-31 18:44:38 Telegram Сontest for JS Developers, Round 1

We've decided to expand the scope of this contest, so the updated Task and additional details will be posted in this channel on January 10th, 2024. Ensure you have notifications enabled so you don't miss it.

Wishing you all the best in the New Year! Open / Comment

2023-12-16 00:08:05 Telegram UI Competition for Android: Results

So far, this has been one of the most fun competitions we've held – at least from the judges' perspective. After many hours of testing and thousands of vaporized messages, we are now ready to announce the results – from a total of 30 submissions, 17 contestants qualified for prizes.

While many entries followed our advice and used the Spoiler Effect as a reference, some chose a slightly different approach – like Fierce Frog who implemented the task with compute shaders. And on that note, here are the winners!

1st PLACE – $3,000
Fierce Frog
Dreamy Crab

2nd PLACE – $2,000
Slim Gull
Fit Falcon
Cool Bee
Merry Gopher
Tactful Hare penalties:
– default package ID (–$500)
Huge Fox penalties:
– default package ID (–$500)
Dandy Owl penalties:
– default API ID (–$500)

3rd PLACE – $1,000
Fancy Bat
Fierce Bull
Dreamy Chicken
Strict Pigeon
Fairy Zebra
Subtle Piranha
Desert Falcon penalties:
– default package ID (–$500)
Young Beetle penalties:
– default API ID (–$500)

All contestants can find personalized feedback from the judges in the comment section of their submission.

Congratulations to the winners and a happy weekend to all! Open / Comment

2023-11-30 17:28:12 Telegram ML Competition, Round 2: Results

We are pleased to announce that 14 of the 62 total contestants in this round have been nominated for prize places. Sunny Whale, who boasts the best total score, has been promoted to 1st PLACE and secured a $15,000 prize!

Our final evaluation was conducted with the following dataset – and we've included a scoring breakdown beneath each submission.

The Final Score for each submission was calculated based on their Code Language Detection and Overall Detection rates in proportion to the Average Time per sample.

Submissions that scored less than 90 points for their Overall Detection Rate were discarded, and given a Final Score of zero.

Meet the winners!

1st PLACE – $15,000
Sunny Whale

2nd PLACE – $4,500
Gifted Piranha
Small Goose

3rd PLACE – $2,000
Swift Skunk
Hip Hyena
Daring Lynx
Merry Pony
Brave Beetle

4th PLACE – $1000
Sturdy Kangaroo
Dandy Ram
Sharp Sloth
Merry Goat
Nimble Seal
Dashing Gull, penalties:
– preloading penalty (–$100)

Congratulations, and thank you to all who participated! Open / Comment