Who Breaks The #Internet?

Not Ralph!

The long answer would be YOU GUYS - the superstars driving the internet into a promising, interesting, dynamic, democra-tech, and fun direction while really embracing the awesome side of the human psyche. For that, we thank you!

The Noonies Winners Announcement series will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories.

2021 was the year HackerNoon went all out for its annual Noonies Awards with more categories, more sub-categories, more nominees, and more winners, making it the most exciting Noonies to date.

Still don’t believe us? Here are some stats for ya nerds:

• 4,961 nominees.

• 586 Hacker Noon awards for 2021.

• Across 6 award categories: Decentralization, Gaming, Internet Heroes, Internet, Software Development, and Technology.

• A monumental 105,122 votes cast over at noonies.tech

The #Internet award category honors the true internet artists of our time ,those who host the best podcasts, write the best newsletters, and those who generally help make the internet a worthwhile place to spend time. Think of this award as the Nobel Prize, for the internet.

And without further ado, the N̶o̶b̶e̶l̶ Noonies go to...

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DESIGN

Thanks to Jamie, designers ‘don’t need Google no more’ for inspiration and wisdom.

Give it up for jamiefry for giving HackerNoon more colors than just green!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ECOMMERCE

We couldn’t be more proud of how much of an influence she has been in terms of e-commerce. A round of applause to Sahana.

Women in tech keep winning!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - EMAIL

Twitter, TikTok or Mailboxes? Thanks to Jullie Arden, checking our mailboxes is now the new scrolling TikTok ;)

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FREELANCING

Here’s to writing more incredible Freelancing stories on HackerNoon, Amtul Rafay. Congratulations on winning a Noonie award!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PODCAST

Tired of watching Netflix? No worries, time to rest your eyes because the QUEEN of podcasts is here to the rescue. Thank you, RachelEleza, for giving us reasons to care for our ears.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STARTUP-MARKETING

When it comes to publishing stories on startup-marketing on HackerNoon, no one can beat the woman herself, Jane Rouge, at giving us the highest quality stories. The Noonies salutes you!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - STORYTELLING

Everything in the world revolves around storytelling; books, movies, music, traveling and even work. We couldn’t be more grateful to Brian Wallace

for giving us big brain insights into storytelling.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - VPN

VPN simply stands for Internet Teleportation. We’ve all been teleporting with VPNs from time to time. And for that, let’s give it up for Tangram Vision

for inspiring us to travel the world while sitting in front of our computers.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - YOUTUBE

Here claiming the award for best Youtube stories on HackerNoon, we have Jeremy Kauffman who deserves all the plaudits for giving us such insightful content.

Science Person Making Twitter Better

We assure you, she’s not a mad scientist. Not yet at least (wink wink). A large part of the universe is a mystery, but the universe is no match for this scientist. Thanks to her, Aliens were finally discovered on Earth! A standing ovation for Martha Hilton. Thank you for demystifying the universe.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SALES

Salesman of the year? Close.

Congratulations Steve Kehler on winning a Noonie, and thanks for giving us some great reads.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SOCIAL-MEDIA

Big shout out to Ivan Mir for showing us how to use Twitter without hating it. We still do, but thanks!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CULTURE

Here’s to the person who wrote the most eye-opening stories from ways of protecting our cellphone number to ways of hacking your own body to beat “inflamm-aging”. Zen Chan, you’ve earned a Noonie, and our respect!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - EMAIL-MARKETING

Not many people are willing to show us the A-Z of email development and sending. A Noonie award is waiting for you to claim, Andriy Zapisotskyi!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - FACEBOOK

Even Mark Zuckerberg can’t beat our man, Louis Bouchard.

You’re ready to create your own Meta, and we can provide you our Verse.

Remote Work Advocate We Need

All hail the new leader of #remote-work-gang, Heather Doshay. Thanks to your advocation, we can now work in sweatpants.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CMS

Planning your next website design isn’t easy, but giving out a Noonie is, especially when the person who won an award is Marie-Elise.

Your story on Drupal 8, a CMS-based project, was top-notch!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PHILOSOPHY

The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry. And especially those who write, those who shine a spotlight on triumphs, fumbles, hacks, why's that, how-tos and breakthroughs. This award is for the highest quality PHILOSOPHY stories on HackerNoon.

The winner is: Karim Fanous!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - IDEAS

We can’t be happier to give this Noonie award to the one and only, Ieva Sipola Keep flying high!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INFLUENCER-MARKETING

This nominee literally showed us how to detect influencers with machine learning. Say hello to the new Noonie recipient, the INFLUENCER of the Welsh vegan engineers’ world, Kyle Jones!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INTERNET CENSORSHIP

We can’t be more f**g excited to give this mterfing award to, the one and only, Benjamin Bateman.

Who the **** cares about internet censorship when we have Benjamin the man to do all the uncensoring and teas-pilling for us.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - WEB-DESIGN

It's a science. It's an art. It's never perfect. And the Noonie goes to Anastasia Dyachenko.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - GOVERNMENT

You get a Noonie, you get a Noonie, Pavel Cherkashin gets a Noonie, you all get a Noonie. Now that’s democracy.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - LIFE

HackerNoon isn’t only about technology, coding, and hacking the net.

Here we also highlight stories on biology, philosophy, rationalism, illusions, deceptions, metaphysics, happiness, and others. In other words, think of us when you’re trying to draft a story, like this Noonie winner: Roxana Murariu!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SIDE-PROJECT

This award recognizes the highest quality SIDE-PROJECT stories on HackerNoon. We’re happy to have your name engraved on a Noonie badge, Ashutosh Mishra!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - GOOGLE

Anyone should at least once in their lifetime learn about what Google’s third-party cookie ban mean to their privacy. Thank God we have Nabeel Ali to walk us through that. And for that, sir, you earn a Noonie!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MAKERS

A standing ovation for Jon V for making the best out of HackerNoon stories. Without you, we would have sold our NFTs like noobs.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - TEAM-BUILDING

Thanks for showing us an insightful take into product leadership between Ford and Ferrari, Sundar Raghavan. One Noonie award for you!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - WEBSITE

As a full-stack software developer, a tech blogger, a person who genuinely loves to write about JavaScript, Python, Linux, and Open Source, this nominee won the Noonie fair and square. Congratulations, Suhail Kakar!

Productivity Role Model

Because heaven knows we needed them this year. #FCovid

And the Noonie goes to How to ADHD.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ADVERTISING

This nominee has been with HackerNoon since 2018, and consistently produced high quality stories. Let’s give it up for Louis Barclay.

We specifically enjoyed reading “Bad Blocking Will Be The New Ad Blocking”, and not just because it’s fun to say the title out loud!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ANALYTICS

Another Noonie goes to Nick Platonenko for writing the highest quality analytics stories. Salute!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - EDUCATION

We love it that this nominee walked us through the process of building a website to view classmates using Wix and Velo. Big congrats to AppleiPad556.

Tim Cook, is that you? How about a Noonie for a new Mac? We’ll be waiting.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MVP

Say no more, the MVP of this Noonie award calls for UppLabs.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - WORDPRESS

A WordPress king. No one deserves this award more than John Risby.

Thank you for showing us how to gain quality control for WordPress plugins.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SEO

All the problems with SEO in the world will be solved by this man. And no, we’re not exaggerating (okay maybe a little bit). Let’s give it up for Sonny Alves Dias!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MARKETING

Because "if you build it, they will come" was always bullsh*t.

And the winner is Egor Kaleynik a marketer in IT.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - GROWTH-HACKING

This award is for the highest quality GROWTH-HACKING stories on HackerNoon. And the Noonie goes to Khamisi Hamisi.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DIGITAL-MARKETING

2 awards in a row? We don’t get enough Noonies around here for Khamisi Hamisi.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - LIFE-LESSONS

'The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.' Aristotle

And the recipient of this Noonie is no one else but, Liz Eddy

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - BLOGGING

Astonished by the consistent production of top-notch stories on HackerNoon, The Noonies is more than honored to give this award to Elizabeth Lvova.

We love you here, much like your colleagues at Evrone!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MARKETING-STRATEGIES

Your stories about marketing strategy are awesome. We might just steal one or two and use them for ourselves. Thank you in advance, Ritika Mehta.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PRODUCT-DESIGN

You are something of a design celebrity, y’know. Your design influence is massive, especially on Hackernoon. Thank you for your longevity and good stories, Jordan Bowman.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PRODUCT-DEVELOPMENT

You rock! We want to honor you with a Noonie award for your wonderful content. Keep pushing out wonderful stories, Adetolani Eko.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DESIGN-PATTERNS

Your stories about how to use different design patterns are awesome! We appreciate you and your content, Sukhpinder Singh.

HR Department With the Best NO BS Job Descriptions

In the simplest words, we don’t like BS when it comes to job descriptions. Thanks to this HR department, that is now a reality. Thank you,AppSignal for having No BS Job Descriptions.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CREATIVITY

Creative block SUCKS. SO. BAD. You have helped us conquer work and impostor syndrome with your creativity boosts. We look forward to more how-to-use stories from Hua Shu.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - DESIGN-THINKING

You’ve made us come to the harsh realization that design is not just about colors, shapes and text (childhood ruined!). Actually, we appreciate all exposure you’ve given us in the design world. Here’s a Noonies medal for you, Jordan Bowman.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - WRITING

Writing is as old as time itself. No matter how much technology evolves, writing will always be a vital part of it. The Clash of the Titans: Video vs Audio vs Written Stories will always have a clear winner. Thank you, rhortx.

Best Online Lecturer

Since school moved to the internet, life has been SO MUCH EASIER OMG! Online learning is more effective in some cases, and this is not just because we can now learn while only wearing underwear. Either way, much thanks to you for being a walking and talking school, Dr. John Campbell!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - PERFORMANCE

Performance, the ultimate benchmark for measuring success. Thanks to you, we now know which database is best for us. To Margo McCabe we say a massive thank you.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - BRANDING

Your NBA Top Shots story was fire (spoiler alert, it’s not about how to shoot a basketball). The Noonies congratulate you, Rao Vinnakota. Keep shooting to the top!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INSTAGRAM

Thanks to you, many of us have been able to get more IG followers. No jokes, we are now mini-IG celebrities. The only thing we don’t have is the blue tick, for now. Thank you, Anupriya.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - SOCIAL-MEDIA-MARKETING

Another consecutive win! Seems like you’re something of a Social Media Sensei. Keep blessing us with all your wisdom and knowledge, o great one. The incredible, Anupriya.

Best Tech Educator on Instagram

Another Mark Zuckerberg app takeover! I’m sure IG wasn’t created to teach Tech but this content creator has turned it into Udemy. All hail Julie Smith for creating Instademy!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CHATBOTS

We can all agree that we are happy that Chatbots don’t ask us to verify if we are humans. Shout-out to kunal rajput.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - CONTENT-MARKETING

First of all, we love your interview stories with tech celebrities. Nothing beats getting first-hand knowledge from a Pioneer of the tech world. Kudos to you, Elizabeth Lvova.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - HACKATHONS

Hackernoon and Hackathon sound so good together. We love your stories and would also love to read one of your books one day. Take a bow, Helder Vasconcelos.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - LEARNING

We’ve all had moments where we loved and hated learning. Ultimately, learning is why we are all here today. The Noonies congratulates Azamah Jr

for helping us rediscover the importance of learning.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - REMOTE-WORKING

Your Story, To Offshore Or Not To Offshore was very insightful. Thanks to you, a lot of Post-Pandemic questions have been answered. Muchos gracias, Alcor.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - UI-DESIGN

Design is so vast and not easy to grasp. Thanks to this brave man, one of the concepts, UI Design, seems a bit simpler to understand.

Tank you, Vivek Tank.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - TWITTER

Ah yes, Twitter. We all have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. Cheers to Daniel Jimenez for his great Twitter Content. Jack would be proud.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - ART

Whether it is art in the museum worth $10 Million or an NFT worth 500 ETH, we can all agree that art proves that beauty is expensive. We want to give a shout-out to Christian Kameir. We appreciate all you do for the world of art.

Tech Podcastor of the Year

You proved that listening to tech podcasts is as interesting as listening to true-crime podcasts. Dear, Gagan Gehani we appreciate you, sincerely. Thank you for leading us to the NorthStar.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - UX-DESIGN

The Noonies celebrates the amazing people who power the technology industry. And especially those who write, those who shine a spotlight on triumphs, fumbles, hacks, why's that, how-tos and breakthroughs. This award is for the highest quality UX-DESIGN stories on HackerNoon, Vivek Tank.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - UI

We cannot emphasize enough that UI is not UX. Thank you, Gábor Boros for being an advocate of UI. #UXisnotUI

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - REMOTE-WORK

When we hear remote work, we all think of the bogeywoman, Ms. Rona. COVID-19 changed the world in a bad way but also brought about some good opportunities. We appreciate Rohit Jacob Mathew for giving us good insight into remote work.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - UX

We have more content about User Experience thanks to Vivek Tank

Tanks for telling us why users almost always come first.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - INTERNET

“We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” - Stephen Hawking. And who’s the better person to connect us all, via stories, than...Christian Kameir, You rock!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - USER-EXPERIENCE

You are only as good as your website's bounce rate. Congrats Vivek Tank!

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - MOTIVATION

In a slump? The HackerNoon Community is here for you! Lomit Patel keeps us motivated.

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - BOOKS

All the BOOK NERDS, please bow down to Adora Nwodo for writing the highest quality BOOKS stories on HackerNoon.

Data Science Influencer of the Year

From every piece of data we could possibly encounter, please give a warm congratulations to Kirk Borne. Your data indeed influenced us ;)

Best Technology Email Newsletter

The only reason we check our mailbox every morning. Big SHOUT OUT to Eddie Shleyner at VeryGoodCopy.

Critical Thinker of the Year

2 years in a row??? Let’s give it up for Nebojsa ”Nesha” Todorovic.

Thanks for always asking the big questions, forecasting the next big things, and never shying away from playing the devil's avocado. 🥑

HackerNoon Contributor of the Year - NEWS

This is for the highest quality NEWS stories on HackerNoon, and the award goes to Sergei Shaikin. Thanks for spending a chunk of your time writing quality news stories, now you can go back to testing software!

More Information:

If you’re a winner, please answer this interview! If you’re a reader, participant, or just a curious individual, consider answering one of our other interviews here.

Read about the Noonies here. To see all of the winners you may visit this site, pick any award, and view the name that appears at the top.

Or follow this account for posts with the list of names released over the course of the week of February 14, 2022.

The Noonies Winners Annoucement series will announce some of the top founders, hackers, and makers in all 6 categories.

Thank you to all of our sponsors!

We truly appreciate your contribution to the tech world and thus the future! The Noonies Awards are sponsored by: Bybit, Avast, TECH Domains and hosted by: HackerNoon

This post was written by Kien Dao and Joshua Kevin Omale.