Boots at the marketplace

The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025

Boot.dev Blog » News » The Boot.dev Beat. August 2025
Lane Wagner
Lane Wagner

Last published August 4, 2025

Subscribe to curated backend podcasts, videos and articles. All free.

We ran the biggest hackathon I’ve ever been a part of (500+ participants!) and saw some incredible projects come out of it. Thanks to everyone that participated, I’m excited for the next one!

Gratefully, Lane

Patch notes 🔗

1. 2025 Hackathon Winners 🔗

If you want to see the full breakdown, check out the Hackathon Winners post, but here are some of the highlights:

Top 3 Winners in the Amateur Category:

  1. Bunny
  2. Codemon
  3. Pokemon Code Battle

Top 3 Winners in the Pro Category:

  1. CPU vs AI
  2. CodeOff
  3. BootdevMulti

2. Listen to/Talk to Boots 🔗

You can now listen to Boots’ messages using the “speaker” icon next to his responses in the chat. You can also record voice messages and they’ll be transcribed live if you get tired of typing!

talk to boots

listen to boots

3. Updated Migrations Chapter in SQL Course 🔗

Our SQL course’s migrations chapter was a bit wonky and didn’t flow well, so we’ve updated the whole thing to be more clear and to go through both up and down migrations in a more logical way.

4. New Chest Icons 🔗

Our artist just finished up a brand new set of custom chest icons! We love them!

new chest icons on boot.dev

5. Miscellaneous improvements 🔗

  • Fixed issue where confirm modals couldn’t be accepted with the enter key
  • More flexible backend scaling for our APIs (most users wouldn’t care, but you might)

What is yet to come 🔗

  • A new RAG course
  • A groundbreaking new feature… that is totally secret for now
  • Walkthrough of Prime’s HTTP protocol course on YouTube
  • Walkthrough of the new AI Agent course on YouTube

Find a problem with this article?

Report an issue on GitHub