The object of this competition is to create a cool JavaScript "application" no larger than 1k. Starting out as a joke, the first version ended with a serious amount of submissions, prizes and quality.
This contest has finished! See the results in the right hand column.
Judges
The hand picked jury consists of people who have set their name in the JavaScript and/or demo scene community. They are fit for jury duty and will be the sole governing body on the results.
Dion Almaer
Dion has many faces in the hall of fame. Maybe his best success was once Ajaxian, which he co-founded. His personal blog can be found here.
Follow @dalmaer
Hakim El Hattab
Hakim is known for his creative JavaScript demos and games such as Sinuous, Sketch and reveal.js. He’s currently working as lead front end developer at Qwiki.
Follow @hakimel
Jed Schmidt
The guy behind 140 bytes seems a perfect fit to be a judge on js1k. I expect he'll appreciate all the tricks you pull to golf your code down. As a bonus, I'm sure he will appreciate the ♥ kawaii ♥ submissions the most. You can find his personal site here.
Iñigo Quilez
This long time demo scener has seen so many demos he's the perfect jury member. His personal website is full of demos and tutorials on various mathematical tricks you can use in your own submissions.
Prizes
What's a competition if you can't win anything? Here are the prizes and the awesome companies that brought them to you...
Flattr account balance
YOU can now show your appreciation to the winners. All donations to this flattr account during the competition will be given to the winners! The total will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit. (#1:50%, #2:30%, #3:20%)
Flattr page
500 US$
Nodejitsu provides a family of server side javascript products that simplify and manage application deployments for the node.js platform. This is a cash prize for the winner.
Follow @nodejitsu
150 €
Uxebu is known far and wide for their crazy work. Currently they're working on this project called bikeshed, but nobody really knows what it is. The prize will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit.
Follow @uxebu
1024+512+256 NOK
Opera makes a browser, maybe you've heard of it. 1024 NOK for #1, 512 NOK for #2 and 256 NOK for #3. The prize will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit.
Follow @opera
50 €
ThinkGeek is a website with toys and other stuff for geeks. The prize will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit.
Follow @thinkgeek
50 €
Flattr is a service that allows others to flatter you with micro donations. The winner receives an account with 50 eur.
Follow @flattr
5x "HTML5 Games"
Jacob Seidelin just published a new book about html5 gaming. He will give away a copy of "HTML5 Games" to each the top five entries!
Follow @jseidelin
Arduino board
Pusher is a company that tries to push the real time streaming web. They're giving away an Arduino board (with ethernet) and a Pusher Startup account (for one year) so you can continue hacking "an army of web socket powered robots" :D
Follow @pusher
150 €
Cloud9 is an online development environment for Javascript and Node.js applications as well as HTML, CSS, PHP, Java, Ruby and 23 other languages. The prize will be given in form of ThinkGeek credit and includes a full year premium Cloud9 account!
Follow @cloud9IDEResults
This is the top 10 for this competition! Be sure to check out the overview page to see all submissions.
By Philip Buchanan
( website )
By Roman Cortes
( website, @romancortes )
By Mathieu 'p01' Henri
( website, @p01 )
By Philippe Deschaseaux
( @ehouais )
By Aivo Paas
( website, @aivopaas )
By Adis Hamzić
( website, @hamzadis )
By Anthony Mann
( website, @mrnibbles )
By Hugo Bonacci
( website, @hugoware )
By Paul Sonnentag
( @BrackCurly )