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Mohamed Amine Terbah

Congrats to the Redis AI Challenge Winners!

August 21, 2025

Update #2: We have re-evaluated our submissions for "Real-Time AI Innovators" selected a new winner shared below. Thanks everyone for your patience and apologies for the confusion and frustration this has caused.

Update #1: We are in the process of to re-evaluating submissions for the Real-Time AI Innovators prompt. We will update this post when a final decision has been made. Thank you all for your patience!


The wait is over! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the Redis AI Challenge.

We saw everything from AI-powered news aggregation platforms that deliver personalized content to forum backends using Redis as a primary database to combat spam. We even saw a reimagined version of the "Plants vs. Zombies" game, running its entire backend on Redis. The sheer diversity of projects showed off the community's ingenuity and truly pushed the boundaries of what's possible with real-time data platforms.

We hope you had a blast working on your project and are proud of what you created, regardless of whether you're taking home a prize.

Without further ado, here are our winners.

Congratulations To…

DSA Interview Ready

@divyasinghdev's voice-based AI-powered interview prep assistant helps students practice speaking their DSA logic out loud, just like in real tech interviews.

We love that DSA Interview Ready helps candidates communicate under pressure, a part of the interview process that's typically very difficult to train for.

Redis Place: Building r/place with 9 Redis Data Structures

We were blown away by @mehdi's "Redis Place," a collaborative real-time pixel art canvas inspired by Reddit's r/place. We love that every single feature is powered by Redis as the primary database, with no traditional database in sight.

From real-time collaboration with instant pixel updates to an analytics dashboard and even a time-travel replay system, "Redis Place" is a phenomenal example of what Redis can do far beyond caching.

Our two prompt winners will each receive $1,500 USD, a DEV++ Membership, and an exclusive DEV badge. All participants will receive a completion badge for their fantastic work!

Our Sponsor

A huge thank you to Redis for making this challenge possible. Their powerful platform makes it possible to create the ultra-fast, AI-enhanced experiences that users now expect and we hope you continue building with them!

What’s Next?

We always have lots of challenges going on so be sure to check our challenge page and follow the tag to stay up-to-date:

#devchallenge

This is the official tag for submissions and announcements related to DEV Challenges.

We hope you had fun, felt challenged, and learned a thing or two. See you next time!


Interested in being a volunteer judge for future challenges? Learn more here!