As in all elections of great importance, tallying the official results of Hacker Noon’s annual awards took us somewhat longer than expected.
That’s because this year’s Noonies Awards were bigger, better and greener than anything, ever before:
- **2,587 **of you were nominated for one (or more) of the
- **221 **Hacker Noon awards up for grabs this year,
- across 5 award categories: Technology, Decentralization, Software Development, Future Heroes, and Back to the Internet.
- **8 **weeks later: **over 200 Noonie Nominee Interviews, AMAs, and Podcasts are live on Hacker Noon, **
- and a whopping 232,444 votes have been cast over at noonies.tech, which means only one thing:
The Winners of the Internet for 2020 can now be officially declared! 🥳
Head over to noonies.tech to check out all 221 Noonies Winners (and 442 Runner-Ups!) right now.
With very special thanks to the Hacker Noon Partners who made the 2020 Noonies possible: Sustany Capital, .TECH Domains, Grant for the Web, Skillsoft, Flipside Crypto, Udacity, and Beyondskills!
_Scroll down to view a selection of top Noonies awards and winners from this year’s Hacker Noon awards, or view all on _NOONIES.TECH🤖
**🏆 **Best Web Monetization Innovator
—presented in partnership with GRANT FOR THE WEB
A huge thanks to for this award’s prize, which includes:
- A $1000 award for the eventual winner (!!!)
- The winner will also receive a 1 year registration for a .tech domain.
And the winner is…
**🥇 Jasmin Virdi (**1,774 votes)
An open-source contributor who innovated around the Ideas of Web Monetization by submitting 3 project ideas that involve a web component, a Vue plugin, and a starter kit for the Electron App using the Web monetization technology.
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Runner-ups:
**🥈 gFam.live (**936 votes)
gFam is a project that allows content consumers to tip content creators instantly. Creators also receive micropayments when Coil subscribers view their content
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