“Evaluating thousands of submissions and hundreds of hours of content is undoubtedly a challenging task”: they just made a big advertisement so that the number would be like that, but they knew from the beginning that they wouldn’t evaluate them all and also the judges are incompetent and have no time for it (…).
Unfortunately, the results reflect it …
I saw one of the judges( in google announcment) , she is not capable of judging even a small app (she doesn’t have the technical background to do so especially for a developer competition…), so here is the result… apart from the superficiality of these judges (to even understand what issue is about…they can only understand superficial things and believe some “things” as innovative or creative…) and their bias…
Anyway, as you said, it’s an opportunity to showcase your work, to work on something interesting for you, but this competition is a total failure. It’s not just me saying it (many and many: the majority…), and many other indicators say so, which I detailed in the other responses, so I won’t repeat myself. Good luck to you
The winner is mediocre 
, except for the game and creative categories, which are good enough
Go to Google socials and complain, all that is being talked in here will not reach anybody at Google other than the organizers. If you deeply believe in what you are saying, then write it down in a place that matters or reach people at Google and link them back here.
Congratulations Winners 
Reflection on Multilingual Chatbot Project Submission for GeminiAI Competition
Participating in the GeminiAI competition has been a deeply enriching experience. I dedicated significant effort to developing a multilingual chatbot, leveraging advanced AI techniques to provide seamless interactions across multiple languages. The project is live and accessible at http://www.34.27.127.45/login.
However, the final stages of submission posed unexpected challenges. With limited time remaining, I attempted to create a YouTube demonstration video to highlight the chatbot’s functionality. Unfortunately, due to my inexperience with video creation and uploading processes, this task became more complicated than anticipated. Additionally, a technical issue resulted in the absence of sound in the uploaded video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EoQx9yAHU4), which hindered my ability to present the chatbot effectively.
While these last-minute challenges impacted the submission, I remain proud of the progress I made in building the chatbot. This experience has reinforced the importance of meticulous preparation and testing, especially when showcasing technical projects. Moving forward, I aim to enhance my skills in presentation and documentation to ensure future projects are delivered with the quality and clarity they deserve.
My heartfelt congratulations to all of the winners and participants of this competition. Regardless of the outcome, every project reflects the hard work, creativity, and innovation of its creators. I am grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of this incredible experience.
Despite the hurdles, the chatbot remains a live and functioning project, showcasing the core capabilities I intended to demonstrate.
Congratulations to the winners. There can only be a few and that’s okay. For our part, we are a bit disappointed that every other project and submission remained almost invisible.
We think Google could and should have done a much better job at showcasing more submissions. At least list all of the submissions by category. Sort by judge score, then by user ratings, so that interested people can discover other projects, too. Maybe highlight some that came close. All of that would make it feel less like a loss for all the others who put in effort as well.
We invested a lot of energy and resources in our submission and were hoping for not more than some visibility in return (which is basically win/win for Gemini). It was fun and we did create something for ourselves but we probably won’t participate again in the future.
I think Google could not feature projects before the competition win announcement otherwise they could be accused of being partial towards the ones they would have featured.
However there’s time now and we’ll see what other projects will be mentioned. I opened a topic for tracking blogs and announcements: Newsroom - competition in the news
Let’s hope some other projects will get visibility besides the winners. I think there will be some pause now.
400 hours of videos, only 400 million tokens 
The voting criteria was clear: video was only one small factor. I understood that it was a way to catch the interest of the judges, so they could decide if they wanted to see more. Obviously, if you didn’t present a video that would “catch” them, your entry would pass them by.
In my case, my account was “suspended pending verification”. I had submitted my app and wanted to post to the forum, but couldn’t. I wrote to an admin to find out what was happening and why my account wasn’t cleared, but never received a reply. I had posted a couple of likes, but still nothing. After a couple of months, my account status increased, but it was still suspended. Who knows why; I didn’t even get a response from Lloyd Hightower when I wrote asking him if my account status would affect my chances of winning a prize. It sucks getting ghosted like that!
However, that said, after I had submitted my entry, I was sure it would win the Most Impactful prize, if not own of the others. That was until the winners were announced and I was very impressed with the entries! Frankly, they were better than mine, I admit it. Had there been a prize for the best educational app, I would have had a fighting chance. Anyway, I continued working on my app and it should be out of Open testing in two weeks and published on the Production track shortly thereafter, barring any unforeseen bugs. The app is Plato’s Playground.
BTW, I posted this from another of my Gmail accounts, since I couldn’t from the the one I entered the competition with.
@Lloyd_Hightower Really disappointed by the result. I resisted my self to write this message for too long since I know it will not make any changes for the deserved people but anyhow writing this message in good note so that I can vent out my feeling and somehow it might be useful for you and judges for future events.
But personally I am not interested in any Google things from now on. Lost the hope.
I have seen many apps which were incredible, unique ideas and great execution. But somewhere in my heart I was sure that they would not win because there video was not great (as they were techies not some sales guy).
Some of them I remember by idea were:
- Drag n drop builder UI to create backend system and automate task, like Zapier but with AI.
- This is my personal favourite for two reason - My friend build this and also Addy Osmani created same thing in-build in chrome itself a month before (Addy Osmani on LinkedIn: #programming #softwareengineering #ai | 112 comments)
Video of my friend (https://youtu.be/3SfRcqWjUrk?si=DhrCidp98MEbKplo)
What I felt is winner were based on:
1.Video (contributing to 60-70%) of judgement
2. People who advertised google and gemini very well
3. Idea - Uniqueness, innovation and usefulness
4. Execution
I would not like to point out any submissions as this post is not intended to blame or demean any winner but some winner are just wrapper like click photo and AI will suggest to what to do, purely passing text, image to api and outputting the result. Point is there’s no innovation in this. I am very much sure every single one of us have thought about such ideas but dropped it because had high hopes that this wrapper will not win since it’s so called Google for which we are submitting the project.
Few winner which I myself admire:
- JayU - great idea and execution - clearly one of the winner
- Gaze link - Very useful and impactful. This should have won the impactful category
If anyone interested in my project then sharing the link below. It is an multi-agent orchestrated dating platform which understand the people and suggest potential matched based on their inner self rather than just random height, weight, dogs, cat…
I commented on LinkedIn under one of Google’s leaders who spoke about the ‘best overall app.’ I pointed out that the idea for their ‘best overall app’ isn’t new and expressed my disappointment that a tech company like Google would select it. And what happened? They blocked me! It seems they didn’t want to hear the feedback.
I get your frustration, it’s natural to feel strongly about these things. But calling them out publicly can hurt both the winners, who are just like you trying to share their ideas, and Google’s reputation. It’s more effective to provide feedback directly to the organizers through official channels to stay professional and make your voice heard. Freedom of speech and all, but still there’s accountability.
It’s also important to separate Google as a whole from the competition organizers; a contest like this doesn’t fully represent a company as large as Google. I am following the official process myself—not because I expect the results to change, as what’s done is done—but because I believe in my work and want to give it its best shot.