🚀 Zero to Merged Contest - Open Source Projects, Win a Trip to GitHub Universe!

[ghostinhershell]

Hey GitHub community!

The Zero to Merged Contest is officially LIVE, and we're looking for amazing open source projects to highlight!

Whether you're a seasoned maintainer of a popular OSS project or just launched your first open source repo, this is YOUR chance to showcase how you're shipping faster with GitHub tools and potentially present on the GitHub Universe keynote stage!

What is it? A contest celebrating open source maintainers and contributors who are accelerating their development using GitHub tools like Copilot, Actions, Projects, and more.

The Prize: 🏆 Grand prize winner presents LIVE on the GitHub Universe keynote stage (travel included!) 🌟 All winners get featured at Universe or GitHub channels

How to enter:

• Record a 2-min video (max) showcasing your open source acceleration story
• Post on social with #ZeroToMergedContest and tag @github
• Submit at https://gh.io/zerotomerged by September 19

What we're looking for from open source projects:

• How you launched a new open source project at lightning speed
• How you delivered a major feature to your community in record time
• Smart workflows that help you manage contributors and PRs
• Any story about shipping faster while maintaining quality in your open source work

We want acceleration stories from all types of open source projects - whether you're maintaining a tool used by thousands, contributing to your favorite project, or just open sourced your first side project. Show us how GitHub tools are helping you build in the open!

Pro tip: Highlight how your acceleration benefits your users and contributors - we love seeing the community impact!

Contest page: https://gh.io/zerotomerged
Official rules: https://gh.io/zerotomerged-rules
Launch video: Twitter/X | LinkedIn | Bluesky

The deadline is September 19 - that's coming up fast! Let's celebrate open source speed! 🚀

[irfan-sec]

I liked it

[evan-cobey]

new badge renderer experiment I’ve shipped with Next.js 16 — modern “latest repos” badges in grid mode (light)
https://github.com/ogcae/lastrepos

[michalstankiewicz4-cell]

Petrie Dish
Thats one of my first projects with vibecoding that visualizes the physical and chemical relationships between particles in fluid
Just run it and have fun.
You only need one file to run it.
Some options don't work correctly, but there are no critical bugs.
The project is in Polish language, but you'll manage ;D I hope.
Feel free to use
I love visualisations ❤️

Some tags: visualization game-of-life chemistry cellular-automata particles particle-physics fluid-dynamics particle-swarm-optimization cellular-automaton emergent-behavior emergence phisics

• https://github.com/michalstankiewicz4-cell/PetrieDish

[michalstankiewicz4-cell]

Brain Generator
This is my attempt to store many images in one brain 😄
https://github.com/michalstankiewicz4-cell/Brain

[michalstankiewicz4-cell]

Thats my x free and without ads vibecoded project, i love it
Simple IP scanner in JS (one file, ready to run)
https://github.com/michalstankiewicz4-cell/IPscanner
https://ipscanner.pl/
https://github.com/michalstankiewicz4-cell/IPscanner/tree/tauri

[heenatrivedi321-max]

Shipping story: Meanwhile -- a status line for Claude Code / Copilot CLI that shows a clearly disclosed sponsor line while your AI agent is thinking, and splits what it earns with you.

Backend is Cloudflare Workers, and the acceleration part: I used a Durable Object to serialize concurrent impression-count writes after a stress test showed plain KV read-modify-write was losing 18/20 concurrent increments -- that's the kind of correctness bug that's easy to ship past without good tooling catching it. Workers AI fills in a chunk of the non-sponsor tip lines with a hard timeout fallback so nothing ever blocks.

Repo: https://github.com/heenatrivedi321-max/deadtime
Live: trymeanwhile.online