What happens when developers stop writing backend boilerplate?
The Zero To Query Hackathon gave us the answer.
🥇 Soforotto (by @OBishrel) won 1st place — a privacy-first support platform for teens with an entire backend defined declaratively in Sub0.
Watch their demo video: https://t.co/NGH9zBtTqo
Visit their submission here: https://t.co/Wv08XHpXwr
🥈 Ajo (by @ajayprakash_01) took 2nd — a beautiful take on West Africa's rotating savings system with real-time collaboration, WebSockets, and zero handwritten server code.
Watch their demo video: https://t.co/xtUI4TaxI2
Visit their submission here: https://t.co/wrgSf34UPt
🏆 Prizes:
• 1st — $250 LingoQL Credits
• 2nd — $100 LingoQL Credits
Congratulations to both builders. Your creativity, execution, and attention to real-world problems made judging incredibly difficult.
Can't wait for the next one in the final quarter of this year. ❤️
The best metric isn't just retention — it's customers who come back and bring others with them.
Are customers coming back? Yes.
Are they telling people? Absolutely. 😊
That's the kind of growth you can't buy.
To all our repeat++ customers: thank you. ❤️
Missed this hackathon? Don't lose hope. 🚀
LingoQL Hackathons happen every quarter. The next one lands in Q4, with registration opening October 1.
Start reading the LingoQL & Sub0 docs now—we're coming with sponsors, perks, and bigger rewards. 🔥
Missed the Zero To Query Hackathon?
Don't worry—this is just the beginning. 🚀
LingoQL Hackathons are held every quarter, and the next one is coming in Q4.
🗓️ Registration opens October 1, and we'll announce everything soon.
If you're planning to compete, now is the perfect time to prepare:
• Learn LingoQL
• Explore Sub0
• Read the docs
• Build a few projects
• Push the platform to its limits
This time, we're coming in even hotter — with more sponsors, exclusive perks, bigger rewards, and even more opportunities for builders.
The best way to win isn't to wait until registration opens. It's to start building today.
See you in Q4. 🔥
🏆 Winners of the first Zero To Query Hackathon by @lingoqlHQ and @Holydigits101!
🥇 Soforotto — $250 LingoQL Credits
🥈 Ajo — $100 LingoQL Credits
Both projects were built with Sub0 + LingoQL and showcased what's possible with declarative backends. Congratulations! 🚀
The Zero to Query (ZTQ) Hackathon has officially come to an end. 🚀
Over the past few days, I've been reviewing every submission, and I have to say that I'm genuinely impressed by what builders created with Sub0.
One thing stood out across multiple teams:
"Once things clicked, it got fast. Faster than anything I've built with Node, genuinely."
Another builder said:
"I kept looking for where to write the controller... then realized I didn't have to."
And another:
"I'll try to use Sub0 a lot more going forward."
These weren't prepared testimonials. They came from developers after building and shipping real projects during the hackathon.
Seeing builders create production-ready apps with authentication, real-time features, AI integrations, cron jobs, and complex backend workflows—all without writing traditional controllers and services—has been incredibly validating.
To everyone who participated: thank you for trusting Sub0, pushing its limits, and giving honest feedback. Every suggestion has already helped shape where we're taking the platform next.
The judging process is now underway, and the winners will be announced on August 5th. 👀🏆
Good luck to every team—you've all built something worth being proud of.
Sub0 keeps getting better.
New features added over the weekend:
🔐 Built-in Ciphers for seamless encryption & decryption of sensitive data.
🌊 Native HTTP Streaming for real-time responses from OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and other AI and streaming (video, text, bytes etc.) providers.
This means you can build AI chat apps, copilots, streaming APIs, and real-time experiences that stream directly to your web or mobile app—in minutes, without wrestling with SSE, buffering, or proxy logic.
Still a lot more coming.
Two new additions to Sub0:
🔐 Ciphers — built-in encryption & decryption for sensitive data.
🌊 HTTP Streaming — stream responses from OpenAI, Claude, and other AI APIs to your apps in real time.
Building AI-powered backends just got a whole lot easier.
https://t.co/hmLbqx0G8T
Sub0 is getting native MCP support.
Build your backend once, and it automatically becomes an MCP server that AI agents can discover and interact with.
Still early and actively building it. I'd love feedback—what would you expect from an ideal MCP-enabled backend?
Sub0 is getting native MCP support.
Build your backend once, and it automatically becomes an MCP server that AI agents can discover and interact with.
Still early and actively building it. I'd love feedback—what would you expect from an ideal MCP-enabled backend?
🚀 Dear LingoQL Hackers,
Did you know you can generate your Sub0 endpoints without spending chat credits?
Just head over to the LingoQL docs and use the built-in AI to generate your endpoints directly—no credits, no friction.
👉 Example below 👇
Copy, paste into your Sub0 project editor, and you’re good to go.
📚 Docs: https://t.co/vaFL4WNgPm
🚀 ZERO TO QUERY: LingoQL Hackathon
Every great product starts with an idea.
Every great developer starts with a decision.
The question is simple: Will you build, or will you watch others build?
HOLYDIGITS101, in collaboration with LingoQL, is inviting innovators, developers, designers, students, and technology enthusiasts to take on the Zero to Query Hackathon.
This is your opportunity to challenge yourself, sharpen your skills, collaborate with brilliant minds, and build solutions that can make a real impact.
🏆 $500 Prize Pool
💳 $20 Deployment Credits for every participant
🌍 Open to everyone
📅 Registration Period: June 25 – July 8, 2026
🏁 Winners Announced: July 27, 2026
You do not need permission to start building.
You only need the courage to begin.
Build. Code. Deploy. Win.
Register today: https://t.co/8vUYQShMMk
#ZeroToQuery #HOLYDIGITS101 #LingoQL #Hackathon #BuildCodeDeployWin #Web3 #AI #Innovation #Developers #AfricaTech
🚀 Introducing Theatre Mode!
Watch requests hit a 3D globe in real time – all set against a twinkling interstellar starfield with drifting debris. 🌍✨
Live feed, full‑screen immersion, and a cosmos that moves with your data.
Analytics, out of this world.
Ever wonder why some analytics maps hide smaller traffic counts? 🤔
Most tools use Linear Normalization—so if one country has 1500 requests and another 10 (a skewed data), that “10” barely registers visually.
LingoQL uses Logarithmic Normalization: every visitor counts! 🌍📊✨
FREE analytics for every deployed service!
Track requests, see where they come from, view trends over time—static sites, SSR apps, APIs—all without third-party or extra setup.
Insight starts the moment you deploy! 📊✨
Take a look📷👇
🚀 Zero to Query Hackathon is LIVE, with @Holydigits101 !
Build SaaS, AI, fintech & automation apps using @lingoqlHQ + https://t.co/GuQSA9JraC ⚡
🏆 $500 prizes
💳 $20 credits for all participants
📅 Register: Jun 25–Jul 8
🏆 Winners: Jul 27
Get Started: https://t.co/WoT4yxn5uI
Did you know? 👀
LingoQL comes with FREE analytics for all deployed services ⚡
Track:
• Static sites
• SSR apps
• APIs & backend services etc.
• Know where your visitors are from and exactly what they're looking at!
No extra setup. No third-party tools. Take a look👇
Excited to partner with @Holydigits101 🚀, empowering 50k+ students across West Africa.
Students can now turn ideas into real products with just prompts on cost-effective infrastructure. The future of building is here. 🌍🔥
https://t.co/LUWMiLjfez
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Proud to unveil our FLAGSHIP product: @lingoqlHQ x Subo 🔥
Students can now build real companies with just a single prompt.
Full backend included.
No hiring developers.
No complex coding.
Just an idea → a working product.
This is the tool we’ve been building to turn our vision into reality: empowering the next generation of African builders right from the classroom.
No more barriers between ideas and live products.
From Abuja to Nairobi and across the continent, the future of building is here.
Now live: https://t.co/v2fOza2vTj
Tag a teacher, school, or student who needs to see this
#HolyDigits101 #LINGOQLxSubo #BuildWithPrompt #EdTechAfrica #NoCode #LearnAndEarn