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  •   10 months ago

Spam projects

Hi, there are a TON of clearly robot-generated spam projects in the gallery. For example, of the projects returned with the search keyword "cook", there are dozens of projects that are clearly the work of a single bot, for example (beware the Rickroll):

- https://devpost.com/software/recipe-sharing-app-hycov3
- https://devpost.com/software/recipe-hub-vom571
- https://devpost.com/software/digital-recipe-book-bahc23
- https://devpost.com/software/recipe-tracker-a7kuwn
- https://devpost.com/software/recipe-hub-xnpic8
- https://devpost.com/software/culinary-canvas-njzkvt
- https://devpost.com/software/recipe-sharing-platform-wetiq2
- https://devpost.com/software/recipe-sharing-hub-lhq3cy
- https://devpost.com/software/simple-recipe-sharing-ntc2xi
- https://devpost.com/software/simple-recipe-book-dq7wmr
- https://devpost.com/software/recipe-delight-ybnshj
- ... and so on

That wasn't even the first two pages of results out of 19. This is disappointing and makes it hard to browse the quality submissions. Can these clearly spam submissions please be removed?

Thanks

  • 2 comments

  •   •   10 months ago

    There are yet dozens more under the categories of task/todo apps, blog helpers, books, and more. Disappointing, yet expected I guess.

  • Manager   •   10 months ago

    Thanks for reaching out! We appreciate you diving into the project gallery. With a hackathon of this size there is a large range of projects but also some repeating themes. Please note that there were "Judge facing" questions when submitting a project which are not visible on the project gallery and using those and the contents in the description we decided which projects to show in the gallery based on if they at least attempted to build with Bolt.new. The number of projects does make it difficult to find the good ones, but with the winner announcement quickly approaching that should help! Thank you!

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