2nd PLACE – $1,000
🥈Quiet Cock for InstaQuiz. Challenge your friends and test your knowledge in multiplayer quiz games.

🥈Ace Scorpion built Lowkey Brokey – a minimalist app for tracking your expenses.

🥈Wise Kiwi introduced Rate Mate – an app to rate and review groups or channels.

🥈Smart Mantis for their Cinema app. A storefront concept for browsing and booking movie tickets.

🥈Bright Cock for Venue Explorer, where you can browse and book imaginary accommodation.

🥈Bright Deer made an Office Gym Bot that reminds you to keep up your healthy habits.

🥈Mindful Swan built DPXWallet, a complete crypto-wallet concept.
(extra reward:🥈x1 for SimpList – a productivity app to track all your tasks) +$1,000.

🥈Stone Mink for their Movie Matcher – swipe for something to watch in a unique dating-app format.

🥈Sleek Shrimp created MemoCard – so you can build, study and share flashcards all within Telegram.

🥈Agile Lizard has you covered for Christmas with Secret Santa Party – set up a Secret Santa for your friends.

🥈Cool Wolf implemented a neat dating app At first sight!.

🥈Fit Falcon has a literal Mini App Store for Telegram Mini Apps.

🥈Hardy Turkey cooked up Laurel Cafe – fresh fictional food right at your fingertips.

🥈Stout Antelope for their Tips app, a favorite of bartenders and hair stylists everywhere.

🥈Neat Quokka created Community Board – browse and post ads in your local area.

🏆Telegram ML Competition: Results

We thank all the participants of the Telegram ML Competition for their patience as the judges performed additional evaluations. We are now ready to announce the final results.

For the final scoring, we tested all submissions on code snippets from public Telegram chats. Overall, only two submissions scored more than a baseline solution, which returns TGLANG_LANGUAGE_OTHER for all inputs. Even these submissions only correctly recognized the language for 35.5% and 9.4% of actual code samples respectively. Therefore, there is no submission that qualified for 1st place in this competition. For details, each contestant can refer to the dedicated comment we've posted for each submission.

2nd PLACE – $4,000
🥈Sturdy Kangaroo 
🥈Giant Turkey
🥈Dashing Gull, penalties:
– preloading penalty (–$100)
🥈Small Dolphin, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)

3rd PLACE – $2,000
🥉Able Quokka 
🥉Stylish Puffin  
🥉Witty Snail 
🥉Mindful Kitten 
🥉Merry Pony 
🥉Nice Beaver, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)
🥉Groovy Cow, penalties:
– rebuilding penalty (–$200)

4th PLACE – $1,000
🎖️ Gifted Lemur 
🎖️ Swift Skunk 
🎖️ Sleek Pony 
🎖️ Eager Piranha 
🎖️ Quiet Scorpion 
🎖️ Nimble Monkey 
🎖️ Large Monkey 
🎖️ Gifted Piranha 
🎖️ Grim Ibex 
🎖️ Brave Beetle 
🎖️ Funky Horse, penalties:
– rebuilding with tweaks penalty (–$300)

We invite all participants of this competition to the 2nd round – even those who did not earn a prize in this round. Further details will be announced this week.

🏆 Telegram ML Competition, Round 2

Prize fund: $40,000 – from which the 1st place winner will receive $15,000 if any submissions qualify for 1st place
Deadline: 23:59 on November 20th (Dubai time)
Who can participate: only contestants from Round 1 are eligible
Results: December 4th, 2023

In the Round 2 of this competition, contestants will work on a shared library that can be used to identify programming and markup languages in code snippets.

The Task: implement a shared library that detects the programming or markup language of a code snippet. You can use any publicly available data and the provided dataset to train your solution.

Details: https://contest.com/docs/ML-Competition-2023-r2.

@ContestBot will begin accepting submissions at a later date. We will further clarify the submission instructions closer to the deadline.

🏆 Telegram Contests Update

Since the launch of contest.com in 2019, we've held contests for developers, designers and artists with a total prize fund of over $2,500,000 – and more contests are on the way.

Why do this? It's a way for people to learn and get better at what they do. Winning in our contests is also the only way of joining the Telegram Team. Some winners are offered paid projects, and a few have even become full team members.

Coming later this year: A contest for JS developers. It's your chance to be part of something big for our 800M+ users. Stay tuned!

🏆 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!

🏆 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!

🏆 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! 🚗

🏆 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.

🏆 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!

🏆 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.