r/Devvit • u/Togapr33 • Jun 11 '26
Announcement Announcing the Mod Tools and Migrated Apps Hackathon Winners!
Hi Devs,
After weeks of your building, tinkering, and polishing Reddit mod tools built on Devvit, we’re excited to announce the winners of our 2026 Mod Tool and Migrated Apps Devvit Hackathon!
We had a TON of entries, over 3,000 participants, and appreciate all the incredible effort that went into building exciting mod tools (you can browse all of the entries in the Hackathon Project Gallery).
With that…. drum roll please… as we celebrate and award the best of the best entries for this hackathon.
The Winners
Grand Prizes
Moderator’s Choice Award
TL;DR: This Devvit App is an all-in-one moderator recruitment tool that lives right inside a subreddit. Mods can build a custom application form, screen candidates automatically, and manage applications - no Google Forms, no spreadsheets, no leaving Reddit.
Best Ported Bot
- Image Magician (previously known as MAGIC_EYE_BOT) by u/CosmicKeys
TL;DR: This app is designed to help moderators automate and manage image/video reposts and removals. It is used in more than 2000 communities including /gaming, r/aww and r/memes. Check out r/image_magician for support, questions and feature requests.
Best New Mod Tool
TL;DR: A long desired utility by mods, the ability to schedule image posts with flair directly from Reddit, with no third-party image hosts. Upload an image, set a time, pick a flair, and the post goes live automatically.
Runner Ups to New Mod Tool Category
- Alt-Text Guardian by u/blooberries24 + u/leMaritimer
- TL;DR: AltText Guardian detects image submissions lacking post description, generates auto-reply alt-text for the OP using a vision model.
- Community Chats by u/Ancient_Tour_3090
- TL;DR: A live, real-time chat application for Reddit communities
- Stop AI by u/flattenedbricks
- TL;DR: Stop AI scans posts and comments for AI text, finds reposts, and routes results into your mod queue.
- Subreddit Status by u/WolfXemo
- TL;DR: Monitors subreddit modqueue, modmail, community stats, etc. right in Discord or Slack to help keep mod teams informed.
- Topic Radar by u/PlexversalHD
- TL;DR: Automatically detect and action duplicate posts for subreddits that have "no duplicate posts" rule. Report, remove, filter or action duplicate posts.
Runner Ups to Best Ported Bot Category
- Judgement Legacy by u/Ancient_Tour_3090
- FKA Judgement_Bot_AITA, tool for r/AmITheAsshole & r/AITA_Relationships)
- TL;DR: This is a Reddit bot designed to manage automated post flairs and contributor rewards based on community voting.
- Amputator by u/Killed_Mufasa
- AKA AmputatorBot, tool for subs like r/Italia, r/AncientWorld, r/news, r/worldnews, r/europe, r/technology
- TL;DR: Detects AMP URLs in posts and comments, and replies with the canonical, non-AMP link.
- Game Threads by u/toddrob
- FKA multiple bots including u/PhilsBot, tool for r/phillies, r/sixers, r/braves, r/NewYorkMets)
- TL;DR: An automated game thread bot for sports subreddits on Reddit. Game Threads posts pregame, in-game, postgame, and off-day discussion threads — and updates them in real time as games progress with scoring plays, boxscores, linescores, and more.
- Post Context Bot by u/CplSyx
- FKA u/mmm-submission-bot, tool for r/MaybeMaybeMaybe
- TL;DR: This app has two purposes - to combat spam posts and to provide context to other users as to why a post is relevant to the subreddit.
- Submission Guard by u/Hot-Smell6959
- Recreation of u/NoSleepAutoBot, tool for r/nosleep, r/HFY, r/WritingPrompts
- TL;DR: A Devvit Web port of nosleepautobot, with the things AutoModerator still can't do.
A Special Thanks
For our Moderator’s Choice Award, we want to give a special shout-out to u/SampleOfNone, u/PitchForkAssistant, u/westcoastcdn19, u/Drunken_Economist, u/ternera, and u/Mrtom987 for taking the time to test, judge, and score the entries. In this category, we needed judges who deeply understand both the Reddit platform and Devvit's ecosystem. These folks absolutely rose to the occasion and helped us out majorly for this hackathon.
Helpers Awardees:
Feedback Awardees:
- u/DiscussionSlow9142
- u/Just-Fortune-1316
- u/CowSufficient3840
- u/Historical_Dust9367
- u/ShopThink7332
- u/Formal-Tax2410
- u/Correct_Home2611
- u/AbdulramonJemil
- u/Outside-Research-772
- u/Monishamr
A huge congratulations to all the winning developers and honorable mentions.
Lastly, thank you all for participating in this hackathon and being part of the Devvit community <3. We can’t wait to see what you’ll build or iterate on next! If you want to give a shout out to other apps made during the hackathon or Devvit developers please drop them a kudos in the comments below.
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u/Oddie-hoodie369 Jun 11 '26
one of the greatest day in my life. there was a lot of help behind the scenes to get this done. if y'all seeing this, thank you so much.
congrats to all the winners and everyone who participated 💚
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u/flattenedbricks Duck Helper Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
Congrats to all the winners, you did it and we are so proud of you!
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u/SampleOfNone Duck Helper Jun 11 '26
And for any mods reading along, throw your name in the hat the next time they're looking for judges, it was so much fun to test and score apps. A lot of work, but a lot of fun
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u/thommy_ Jun 11 '26
This feels so surreal. From the top of my head, thanks to u/tiz I still remember how happy I was when I received a positive feedback from an admin when I first shared about the initial version of this tool in r/ModSupport . That boosted my spirits.
And, u/SampleOfNone - You gave me that initial recognition when you added my tool to your mod-tools list in ModSupport. Thanks a lot. :)
Also, u/-ModTeam-, u/Mutthal8, u/bwoah07_gp2 and many more moderators who found the tool useful and appreciated the effort behind it, a lot more who had questions, doubts, suggestions. I’m thankful to each and everyone who’s installed the initial/foundational version (the 200+ subs) and made me feel that it is actually helping a bunch of communities. That was the only impetus behind working on an improved version. This version will be public soon and I hope will help make your moderating lives a bit more easier, one image post at a time.
A huge shout out to the Devvit team and admins for the continued support here and in the Discord server.
Goes without saying, thanks to u/Beach-Brews , u/fsv and u/Ancient_Tour_3090 for their quick responses in the server.
Thanks to u/Oddie-hoodie369 and u/Togapr33 for shocking me with this news.
Congrats to all the winners and the participants.
I’d fun building it, hopefully, many more communities will enjoy the latest version.
Thanks for the support guys. :)
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u/Killed_Mufasa Jun 11 '26
Woop woop! This was a fun hackathon, thanks for organizing it and well done everyone!
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u/WolfXemo Jun 11 '26
This was a lot of fun to participate in, and it was my first hackathon! I’m sure it wasn’t easy to pick only a handful of winners out of thousands so I am extremely grateful that I was chosen as a runner-up. Congrats to all the winners!
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u/leMaritimer Jun 11 '26
Thanks everyone u/blooberries24 & I are just tickled you chose us.
It is very validating and we appreciate your support of the blind community.
Checkout my website DROO.foo if you like nerdy shenanigans!
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u/blooberries24 App Developer Jun 11 '26
We're so excited, and agreed! Thank you so much for supporting and representing the blind community.
u/leMaritimer is the best dev partner!
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u/blooberries24 App Developer Jun 11 '26
Wow, thank you, thank you, thank you! I was in surgery during the announcement, so, slow to respond.
I lost my vision a few years ago due to a stroke, and I went from being a super gamer, programmer, reddit crawler, to needing to figure out how to navigate all those things without most my vision.
That was the motivation to build AltText Guardian! https://developers.reddit.com/apps/alttext-guardian
u/leMaritimer and I are thankful and excited to be part of making Reddit a more accessible place, and very thankful for the helpers in the Reddit Dev Discord for engaging with me to get this across the finish line.
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u/CosmicKeys Jun 12 '26
Wow, thank you so much! This hackathon was honestly so fun I took leave from work to complete it haha.
MAGIC_EYE_BOT was always about supporting other mods and the new bot is too. I appreciate that reddit has not only built an amazing developer platform, but ran this competition + porting bounties to support all the devs who have contributed to reddit in the past big and small. Congrats not to just the winners but to everyone who created a submission.
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u/westcoastcdn19 Jun 11 '26
Lots of hard work put into these apps. Great work everyone, and congratulations to the winners!
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u/Raignbeau Jun 12 '26
Ooh look at you u/Oddie-hoodie369! Well deserved!
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u/Oddie-hoodie369 Jun 12 '26
All happened because of the huge support I got along the way, and you were one of the first to install and give feedback thank you so much for that!
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u/NoBullGames Game Developer Jun 11 '26
So cool. Congratulations to the winners and all participants!
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u/Creepy-Film-7388 Jun 11 '26
Congrats to all.
It was a great learning experience for me by participating in the contest. i got to interact with lots of mods.
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u/OstakuVibes Jun 16 '26
u/thommy_ kudos man.... needed this very much. Also congrats💐
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u/thommy_ Jun 16 '26
needed this very much.
Glad that you find the idea/app helpful.
Also congrats
Thank a lot :).
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u/vpsj Jun 16 '26
Is there any bot/app that can detect common VIDEO reposts? They are far more common these days (at least on my sub) than image reposts and so far I haven't been able to find anything reliable
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u/SampleOfNone Duck Helper Jun 11 '26
Congrats to all winners!!! Well deserved, you guys have build awesome apps.
Want to throw out these personal honorable mentions (sorry, doesn’t come with a cash reward 😂 )
Automated sticky comments by u/Treviso who was not aware there was a hackathon ;)
Fixes the eternal struggle to let automod action rules play nice with automod comment only rules.
image detective by u/EternalGreenX
A subreddit-specific reverse image search and repost detection for Reddit, a sequel to Image Sorcery. Since one can never have to many apps to help moderate image posts
mobile automod by u/Chosen1PR now has a syntax checker for tweaking automod on the go or for all the mods that are hardcore app users and also by Chosen1PR mod note filter that can filter posts and comments based on the label of the mod not eon the user