I love cookies, but I hate cookie banners
We've all had enough of those annoying cookie consent banners that get in our way everyday on the internet. So in the spirit of Halloween and Hacktoberfest, I'm proud to present to you 🤬 THE MOST ANNOYING COOKIE BANNER EVER HACKATHON 🍪.
In this contest, you'll connect with that evil developer inside of you and get revenge for all those annoying cookie banners you've had to deal with.
HOW, you ask?!
By creating the most annoying cookie banner you can think of.
WHY, you ask!?
Well, to have fun... and torture users a bit in the process 😈
But what might the most annoying cookie banners look like? Well, I'm glad you asked, because I prepared a nice little video. Have a quick watch.
Hackathon Guidelines
In this hackathon, your mission is simple: make the most annoying cookie consent banner or pop-up you can think of. This isn't a serious hackathon, just a chance to get creative and have fun!
Two winners will receive a sweet mechanical keyboard, chosen by the Open SaaS team and community.
Participation is simple. Just follow these rules:
- Fork the Annoying Cookie Banner Stackblitz Template
- If you prefer to work in your own editor, just click on the
Create a repositorybutton after you fork the template
- If you prefer to work in your own editor, just click on the
- When finished with your banner, click on
Sharein the top left, and in theEmbedtab, clickCopy URL. - Next, edit the
MOST-ANNOYING-COOKIE-BANNER.mdfile on the Open SaaS repo.- Enter your GitHub username followed by the embed link you copied from Stackblitz
- When you create a PR, make sure you select the
ANNOYING COOKIE BANNERlabel
- Make sure you also ⭐️ star the Open Saas repository to be eligible to win!
Hackathon Deadline
Submit your PR before the 21st of October to be eligible to win.
Make sure to follow us on Twitter/X, or join our Discord to see if you've won.
And as the video said, if you’d like to find out more info about the annoying cookie consent banners and the hackathon, go here:
🤬 THE MOST ANNOYING COOKIE BANNER EVER HACKATHON 🍪
Let's code, and annoy!
I love this, this is one of the best hackathon ideas I've seen in a while :D