Join us for the next Wix Studio Challenge: Build Your Dream Community Platform!

Publish Date: Oct 16 '24

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We are thrilled to announce our next partnered challenge with Wix Studio!

Running through October 27, Wix Studio Challenge: Community Edition invites you to leverage the power of Wix Studio to build your dream community platform. This challenge is an opportunity to showcase your JavaScript skills while leveraging the Wix Studio low-code environment to create a meaningful project for your portfolio.

Ania Kubów (@ania_kubow) will be returning as our guest judge. With her extensive experience as a software developer, educator, and popular YouTuber, Ania brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Showcase your work to one of the software’s most respected voices!

There will be one prompt for this challenge, with one lucky and talented winner.

Our Prompt

For this challenge, your mission is to build your dream community platform on Wix Studio - a digital space that enables groups of people with shared interests, goals, or characteristics to interact, collaborate, and engage with each other online.

With Wix Studio, you can rapidly build a tailored platform to meet your community’s exact needs by leveraging Wix Apps and their associated Velo APIs. Launching a community app also requires considering many factors including scalability, reliability, performance, and security, so we are excited for you to experience Wix Studio's built-in infrastructure and adaptability!

Judging and Prizes

We’ll be selecting one winner for this challenge to take home the entire prize. Our winner will receive:

$3,000 USD
6-month DEV++ membership
Exclusive DEV Badge
A gift from the DEV Shop

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

How To Participate

To participate, you will need to build a Wix Studio site and publish a post using the submission template below.

All submissions must be developed using Wix Studio and utilize the following in a meaningful way connected to the project’s primary goal:

Two or more Velo APIs
Two or more Wix Apps and their associated APIs

Submissions must include original code and should not contain custom elements or iFrames.

Steps to Creating a Wix Studio Site For New Users (VERY IMPORTANT)

Navigate to the Wix Studio page
Click "Start Creating"
Create an account
Select “Create a site” and click “Start Creating”
Start by selecting a designed template or a blank canvas by scrolling to the bottom and selecting "Start from scratch"

Wix offers a free tier for Wix Studio and you do not need a credit card to sign up.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contest rules such as eligibility requirements.

Wix Studio Challenge Submission Template

Community and Resources

We encourage everyone who's curious about the challenge to join the Wix Studio Community on Discord and hop into their #dev-challenges channel. This will be the place to ask for technical help and meet community members building with Wix.

Tips and Tricks

Here are some ideas and resources to help you get started:

Common Features: Every community platform is different but some features you may want to consider include user profiles, discussion boards, messaging, events, and content sharing capabilities. You are not limited to, or required, to implement all these features.
Examples of Shared Interests: If no particular community stands out to you personally, here are some examples of interest groups you could build for: fashion, technology, health, food, sports, music, gaming, art, travel, literature, entrepreneurship, and career. We encourage you to get as broad or as niche as your desire calls!
Utilizing Wix Studio’s Visual Design Templates: Building on top of visual design templates is allowed for this challenge, and is one of the key ways you can leverage Wix’s ecosystem to improve your productivity.
Wix AI Assistant: The Wix IDE offers a powerful AI assistant that you can leverage to improve your workflow and productivity.
Additional Resources: To get started with building, check out the resources available on Wix Studio:

Important Dates

October 16: Wix Studio Community Platform Challenge begins!
October 27: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
October 29: Winners Announced

We're excited to see the community platforms you create! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below. Good luck and happy coding!

Comments 35 total

АнонимOct 16, 2024
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- Jess LeeOct 16, 2024
  Woohoo!
- Isama DesmondOct 19, 2024
  I would be glad to join your team.
AmandaOct 16, 2024
Good luck everyone!!
Charity IbelemeOct 16, 2024
Wow
Abu Taher SiddikOct 16, 2024
Boycott WIX it is an Israeli Software.
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Rafael MilewskiOct 18, 2024
Can the submission be a satire? For example, could it focus on a community centered around a fictional video game that doesn't exist, or a made-up sport that only exists in an alternate reality? Or maybe about a community of verified™ time travelers or people who have "moonwalked" on the moon?
- Jess LeeOct 18, 2024
  Yes it can! Love the creativity.
DarrenOct 19, 2024
Well this seems cool. Have some community ideas and this is a good way to start building it..

Onward!!!
- Jess LeeOct 21, 2024
  Good luck!
Vladimir IgnatevOct 19, 2024
Is it possible to create an Only fans clone on Wix Studio?
- Shafayet Hossain YashfiOct 19, 2024
  Take me with you when you create this so i can get a free subscription😂
Clara QuintelaOct 19, 2024
The "Steps to Creating a Wix Studio Site For New Users (VERY IMPORTANT)" doesnt'make sense.

You arrive at step 4 and you don't know where to go.
There's no option "Select "For a client, as a freelancer or an agency" and click continue"
- Clara QuintelaOct 19, 2024
  From the Wix AI chatbox itself:
  
  _It seems like the steps you mentioned are **not aligning **with the current process on the Wix site. To create a new site in Wix Studio, follow these steps:
  
  Go to Sites in your Wix Studio workspace.
  
  Click "Create New Site" at the top right.
  
  Choose how to create a new site:
  
  Studio Template
  
  Studio blank canvas
  
  Use Wix Editor
  
  Use your own template_
  - Jess LeeOct 22, 2024
    Hey @claraq, thanks so much for bringing this to our attention. We have updated the instructions!
Shafayet Hossain YashfiOct 19, 2024
It was really fun creating this community platform! I’m excited to see how it turned out and can't wait to see who wins. Check out what I’ve made: shafayeatme.wixstudio.io/devchalla....
Schemetastic (Rodrigo)Oct 19, 2024
I really like Wix Studio, and it was in my plans to learn Velo! But still hasn't been six months since my last challenge, so I think I can't participate in this one 🥲... but Wix Studio is a tool that you must keep an eye on, it has true potential and amazing features.

If you don't know where to start with Wix Studio, you should join the waitlist for their next crash course: Here

I did took that course and it was super easy and I had fun, you can see the result here
- Jess LeeOct 21, 2024
  @schemetastic are you seeing somewhere about a 6 month limit to participating in challenges?
  - Schemetastic (Rodrigo)Oct 21, 2024
    Hey there! After winning a challenge, isn't necessary that 6 months has passed to qualify to enter another challenge? 🤔
    
    The one I did was the Netlify, winner announced on May 😬
    - Jess LeeOct 21, 2024
      Nope! There are no time constraints here, you are welcome (and encouraged) to participate in as many challenges as you'd like!
      - Schemetastic (Rodrigo)Oct 21, 2024
        I think I have read it in the Official Challenges and Hackathon Rules in the Eligibility section 🤔. But you know, it was in my plans to learn Velo and I already had some project ideas in my mind, I might make an entry just for fun even if I can't win. One way or another, I'll be looking to future challenges. 😉
        
        Jess LeeOct 21, 2024
        @schemetastic we just updated that page to remove the time limitation -- feel free to participate!
        
        Schemetastic (Rodrigo)Oct 21, 2024
        Okay, I'm all in! 💪
  - Schemetastic (Rodrigo)Oct 28, 2024
    Did it, here is my entry: Link here
    
    Don't think wrong, I'm sending it to you here because I don't see it in the entries section, so I just wanted to make sure that I'm participating 🤔
Kavei SahaiOct 19, 2024
Pretty dumb, but, my idea is to build a community platform designed for an alien race that communicates through visual patterns, harmonics, and lightwaves. This space fosters collaboration between extraterrestrial beings from different star systems, with each species bringing unique knowledge about their home planet, technology, and culture.
- Jess LeeOct 21, 2024
  Sounds cool!
Schemetastic (Rodrigo)Oct 23, 2024
Hey there! Part of the rules indicate that “Submissions must include original code and should not contain custom elements or iFrames.”. What does it mean that it can't contain custom elements? Like React components and HTML components?

I believe Wix Studio gives you the capacity to do that, but I'm guessign it refers to that. 🤔
- ThomasOct 23, 2024
  Hey, this is section is speaking about Custom Elements and standard iFrames.
  
  While Wix Studio has the capacity to do both, we are prohibiting its usage as we would like participants to explore our native Velo APIs which are directly inaccessible from these constructs.
  - Schemetastic (Rodrigo)Oct 24, 2024
    Thanks! Very helpful! 👌
Wayne RockettOct 24, 2024
Here's the thing, I'm not really a sociable person, so my dream community platform would be a platform that no one else could join.

I don't think that will win me first prize? 🏆
Arize NnonyeluOct 25, 2024
I have submitted mine. 😁
Daniëlle SuurlantOct 26, 2024
I'm sad to see that once again dev.to is working with an Israeli company that has for the past year supported Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza through their platform. I strongly urge you to reconsider partnering with Wix.

See wix4swordsofiron.com for the kind of websites their employees host.
Agung Sidharta SoOct 26, 2024

All submissions must be developed using Wix Studio and utilize the following in a meaningful way connected to the project’s primary goal:
Two or more Velo APIs
Two or more Wix Apps and their associated APIs

For requirements above, is it OK to use only Wix apps but not calling the associated APIs ? Also for the Velo APIs, any API under $w is fine ? Or some specific APIs are needed ?
David AdeagaOct 26, 2024
Is wix studio different from wix,
I built my platform with wix

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