I dedicated around 80-85 days to building my app for the competition, only to find out that the apps were judged based on the video demo. This wasn’t mentioned in the rules, so I wasn’t aware of it. I poured my efforts into creating a Mental Health app with numerous features to support mental health seekers using AI.
I feel it’s extremely unfair to judge apps solely by their demo. If someone isn’t skilled at creating videos, their app won’t be properly evaluated. It’s just not right!
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I have to agree, just because ViddyScribe | Gemini API Developer Competition | Google AI for Developers had a really cool video, not showcasing anything about the actual website.
It only works on videos < 100 MB and < 2 mins, so basically it’s useless. Other solutions out there are better and support longer and heavier videos.
Exactly! They might as well have named it the “Best Video Creator Competition” instead.
The videos were all really cool and helpful for very specific cases, but they are all so random and useless if you don’t have special needs, that I’m disappointed.
I wonder who even plays card/drawing games with bad graphics nowadays.
Jayu is the only useful one, that no one can use because it isn’t released anywhere publicly haha.
There were almost 3.1k projects and they ended up with these results. Saaaaaaaaddddd!!
It’s okay. Because everyone loves cute happy faces saying sassy messages, it definitely deserves 50K.
I think it was easy to win in this category because there were only 32 projects. But guess what they also selected the winner on the basis of the video quality in the category with only 32 projects. LOL 
I still regret that I did not work on the AR app. I thought there was not much to do according to the criteria. I already worked on an AR project and it is very easy to create this kind of app. I thought of developing a similar idea. Google has its Codelab available online. You can easily identify the object and then send input to Gemini. You can easily overlay these happy faces. There were good AR apps too and apps similar to them. It is similar if you take a picture and ask Gemini what is it. lol. I think, they only won because of happy faces. It looks like the judges are just having fun and spending extra hours to get good salaries.
When I entered the competition, it was just for experience, I have no experience as a developer, it’s just a hobby, my project had been working on for a while but when I found out about the competition in 3 days I integrated it with Gemini and just processed the Json response, it was something simple I didn’t expect to go far, but I was disappointed to see the work of many who dedicated themselves for months not being recognized. I think there are projects with great potential that deserved recognition, the winners have their merits, but I think some projects have the potential to be among the winners.
A more useful app in my view should be one that serves several groups ,with social benefit as a whole, not something specific, a large percentage that will not have the need to use some apps, having no use.
But it was cool to participate, I hope that many continue with their projects and receive recognition, don’t be discouraged.
I am not satisfied with results. But there will be always some unsatisfied people because it is a competition. Well, our dissatisfaction has merit reasons like evaluation criteria doesn’t followed properly but that also shows us whoever evaluate are also people and I think there will be always other better apps that might have won as well and this results simply shows how much noise you can make how much your luck is increased and it is all about luck together with bare minimum implementation.
Don’t be discouraged, don’t take personal, prove that your project was the best one against all things and you will have a origin story that is started by losing, my friend.
Maybe I’m paranoid, but it really seems to have something to do with politics. The latest competition about Gemini (Gemini in Chrome) is hosted on Devpost, which bans some Asian countries and some countries related to Russia. And the final results of the Gemini API Competition are: NO ASIAN (Japan is Asian, but they’re a first-world country, so that doesn’t count), NO INDIA, NO SOUTH AMERICAN, despite the dominance of submissions from those regions. But hey, their game, their rules, money from America stays in America 
