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ElixirBench

by ElixirChain

A service to maintain long running benchmarks for Elixir projects.

https://www.elixirbench.org/

Comments by the Judges

This could be very useful for the community
- Robert, René, Fred, Chelo

Surprising amount of work done
- Fred

Prizes

<strong>900USD</strong> Free 2-day CodeBEAM SF ticket

900USD Free 2-day CodeBEAM SF ticket - by Erlang Solutions

<strong>500USD</strong> Amazon Gift Card

500USD Amazon Gift Card - by PegB

Category Winners

Sputnik

by weLaika

Category: Completion

A website crawler written in Elixir (Crawling since 1957)

https://spawnfest.github.io/sputnik/Sputnik.html

Comments by the Judges

Nicely documented; Good UI; Extra points for good accessibility.
- René

Nice ASCII art, useful to find dead links.
- Fred

Prize

500USD Amazon Gift Card - by PegB

Flock

by 0xfafafa

Category: Maintainability

Flock is a lightweight process registry and forgiving supervisor library for Erlang/Elixir applications.

https://spawnfest.github.io/flock/Flock.html

Comments by the Judges

Decent docs, tests pass. The process registry idea is not new, but the CRDT approach here is fun.
- Fred

Extra points for including and running dialyzer!
- Chelo

Prize

500USD Gyft Card - by Alert Logic

Stories Evolved

by Fluid Views Tribune

Category: Correctness

A completely unnecessary evolution based story generator.

Comments by the Judges

I like the simulation-first approach; code is clean and structured; bonus points for terminal-size-dependant ASCII animations.
- René

Nice simulation, nice use of processes, nice display. All around nice work.
- Chris

Prize

<strong>600USD</strong> ThinkGeek Gift Card

600USD ThinkGeek Gift Card - by BairesDev

Nobody Expects Polish Inquisition

by NEPI

Category: Innovation

It provides sensors based on Nerves to help automate flower growing process. All data can be checked in realtime on web app based on Phoenix.

https://twitter.com/Dreat_/status/939890791115296768

Comments by the Judges

Bonus points for README illustrations.
- René

Nice mix of techs!! :)
- Chelo

Prize

500USD Amazon Gift Card - by PegB

Eximap

by Around25 IMAP

Category: Usefulness

Eximap is an elixir library that can connect to IMAP servers via TLS and execute commands.

Comments by the Judges

While not a novel technology, creating an IMAP lib in Elixir is a great idea.
- Robert

Excited to see IMAP support around.
- Fred, Chris

Prize

<strong>400USD</strong> Free ticket to Any CodeBEAM Lite

400USD Free ticket to Any CodeBEAM Lite - by Erlang Solutions

FireFork

by Erisata

Category: Creativity

This is an application for launching fireworks remotely.

Comments by the Judges

Very cool concept, but hard to test -- actually has a working Wx GUI though, so props for that.
- Fred

Cool idea -- I had a friend who was touring trying to do similar things with Erlang and sync'ing audio and video streams.
- Chris

Prize

<strong>300USD</strong> Sparkfun Gift Card

300USD Sparkfun Gift Card - by AdRoll

lagom

by Lagom

Category: Creativity

A robot that really listens what you have to say (in English).

https://lagom.facorro.com/

Comments by the Judges

Clojerl! Nice choice. Instructions were clear and the concept cool.
- Fred

Extra points for using clojerl in an ambitious project, leaving an online demo, and also packing everything into a nice docker image.
- Chelo

Prize

<strong>300USD</strong> Amazon Gift Card

300USD Amazon Gift Card - by AdRoll