THIS JUST IN: HackerNoon released Writing Contests on Product Hunt and we need your support 💚 Please upvote, review, like and share the launch, here. This will help attract more sponsors to the contest, and hence, more monetary rewards to our insightful writers!

As a publication, HackerNoon has a community of eager contributors (50k+ and counting), strict standards (50%+ rejection rate), and high domain authority (87). By sponsoring the writing contest, businesses get mentions on high-quality content on their desired keywords while promoting their product and services! The winners gain deserving recognition and prizes while HackerNoon gets to recruit top content.

1. Pick a keyword from tech terms list (#ai, #decentralized-internet, etc);
2. Get advertised on all HackerNoon stories featuring that keyword;
3. HackerNoon edits, reviews, publishes, & awards the best stories.

1. Developer Community Incentivization via $$$ Prizes
2. Powerful word-of-mouth marketing
3. Baked-in SM marketing and organic viral-ability
4. Strong association with target keyword
5. Custom landing page with CTA
6. Thought-leaders's content as vehicles for your CTA
You can see past and currently running writing contests here. See what the winners say here.

Writing Contests Fun Facts

Fun Fact #1: Writing Contests have now created $300k+ in writer earnings. Active contests are here.

Fun Fact #2: The '$logo' used to represent Writing Contests is from a newly open-sourced emoji credibility indicator. GitHub file here. Figma file here.

Fun Fact #3: HackerNoon has 75 tags with over 1k stories published and 653 tags with over 100 stories. There are many niche technology topics we can host a quality writing contest about - check them here.

Learn more about associating your company with a niche technology term here.

Stay creative, Stay iconic 💚
HackerNoon Team