Submission - Challenge Manager

[nikpundik]

Another team working on this challenge: me & @giusfalco

Idea

Our idea was to create a tool to:

• Make API calls to GitHub (providing the challenge name and title).
• Set the prize value and divide it among the top three winners.
• Perform the LOAD of each "submission."
• Evaluate ("evaluate tab") each submission by reviewing the details, ranking the submissions, adding textual comments to each one, and selecting whether there is an "Honorable Mention."
• Download the videos associated with each submission (using the "convert" button).
• Create Twitter posts for each winner (using the "share" tab) with the copy-to-clipboard function.
• Do the same to update the README.md button (using the "markdown" tab).

challenge-maker.webm

Possible future implementations: a. Auto-posting tweets. b. Downloading YouTube videos.

Since the main goal is to provide a tool that speeds up challenge management, anyone who wants to use this as a starting point is more than welcome! 😉

How to

For running the tool on your local machine:

• npm install
• have a local installation of ffmpeg if you want to convert videos
• start client npm run dev
• start server node scripts/server.cjs

Repo

https://github.com/nikpundik/challenges/tree/main/challenge-maker

[thomaswright]

This looks great! I don't really want to make my own 😅, so i'm just going to add some additional ideas here:

1. To further reduce effort, you could fetch the repo list and display the last few challenges at the top so @vjeux just has to click the relevant challenge instead of copy-pasting the link.

https://api.github.com/orgs/Algorithm-Arena/repos?per_page=1000

2. A little more work but doable is a button to trigger a write to the repo readme after the comments are added, inserting or replacing the "Winner" section. Videos / images can be referenced from their submission links. (He'd have to add a github token for this.)

Idk how twitter's / thread's api works but something similar could probably happen there. I assume @vjeux wants something like a few "Post Results to Twitter" "Post Results to Threads" and "Update Repo Readme" buttons.

3. In the twitter threads @vjeux usually has a "opening remarks" post with a link to the challenge tweet and a "closing remarks" post with a link to the current week's challenge tweet. These could be additional sections available to write along with the blurbs.