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Build with AWS mentors by your side 🤝 Not sure which AWS service to use? Can't decide how much to build so you actually finish? App works on your laptop but breaks once you deploy? Stuck on an IAM error that makes no sense? You don't have to figure it out alone. Arkodyuti Saha, Manisha Choudhary, Jitesh Udwani, Makendran Gunasekaran, Aman Raj and Brijesh Dubey from AWS will be around all day to help you out. 📅 19th September 2026 📍 Polaris School of Technology, Bangalore Are you in Bangalore? Join us for the build day on the 19th of September, limited space: https://luma.com/first-commit

🚨 First Commit hackathon is LIVE. It is the opening stop of the Bharat Builds Tour with AWS, a six stop run of hackathons taking us from September through December, and it starts TODAY. You build on AWS from anywhere in India over the next four days. There is ₹20 Lakh worth of cash prizes, cloud credits and gadgets on the table, and fast-track hiring at Amazon for internship and full-time roles, terms and conditions on the site. If you have been meaning to build something on AWS and never got past the planning, this is the weekend for it: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws For students in Bangalore we have an in-person build day on 19 September at Polaris School of Technology where AWS mentors will be on the floor with you and a hands on GenAI workshop runs alongside: https://luma.com/first-commit

🚨 Last day to submit your First Commit hackathon project! 📋 Your submission should have: 1️⃣ A public GitHub repo 2️⃣ A YouTube demo video under 3 minutes that shows AWS in action 3️⃣ A short writeup covering how you have used AWS in your project 🔗 Submission CLOSES at 8 PM IST, submit FAST: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit/submit 📁 Resources, rules and judging criteria on website: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/first-commit

16,000+ registrations later, the first hackathon of the Bharat Builds Tour has come to an end 🚀 1,400 builders joined us in Bangalore for the in-person Build Day, spending the day building, attending workshops from AWS engineers, getting help from AWS mentors, networking, and meeting other builders. Thank you to everyone who participated, and to the AWS mentors and engineers who spent the day helping teams with their projects. That was First Commit. Register for the Bharat Builds Tour because there’s a lot more coming 🔗: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws

The Bharat Builds First Commit hackathon blog winners are here! 🏆 Here are the 5 winning blogs: 🥇 Kavyan Hembrom - The Timetable Nobody Has 🥇 Arnav Bhandari - KavachPay: Building a financial control plane for autonomous AI agents on AWS 🥇 Souvik Ghosh - From “Apply for Me” to a Submission Receipt: Building Career Agent on AWS 🥇 Jeevesh Chaurasiya - VaporTrace: Real-Time Distributed Tracing for AWS Event Pipelines 🥇 Lakshaya Sharma - Break your rig before you buy it: simulating local AI clusters, then deploying them on AWS Each winner takes home a Logitech gaming keyboard 🎉 Congratulations to all five winners 🎉 Register for the next Bharat Builds hackathon: https://www.wemakedevs.org/aws/env

Join us as a community partner for Environmental Hacks, the second hackathon of the Bharat Builds Tour! 🤝 Be part of India’s largest student hackathon series, with 17,000+ students already registered. Get your tech community, college, or student club involved and help more students in Delhi and across India take part. We’ll also help spread the word about your events through the WeMakeDevs community and support what you’re organising. Connect with us at [email protected] and tell us about your community, college, or club!

You can get an iPhone Duo, a MacBook Pro and cash prizes for contributing to open source this month. If you're already contributing for Hacktoberfest this month, we're bringing Mergetober alongside it, a more focused program with some incredible prizes. The challenge is to build integrations for cognee, the open source memory layer for AI agents. Pick an open issue or propose a new integration, get assigned, open a PR before October 31, and you're in. The features you add will be used by developers and companies around the world. Register: https://www.wemakedevs.org/hackathons/mergetober