The randomly picked winners: Alex Chan, Zack Maril, James Raybould, Mick Grove, Helena Kloosterman, Scott Ross, Adrian Howard, Ryan Bennick, and Scott Ross. The grand prize winner (drum roll) was Aseem Kishore. Awesome to see one winner from the Netherlands, and two each from England and Canada. Thanks again to everyone that entered and all the sponsors who supported this fun giveaway.
Two big events are almost here - the 100th issue of Hacker Newsletter and 10,000 subscribers (Woot! One milestone down with subscribers). Thank you to each and every subscriber who made this possible! To celebrate, we are going to have one square of a giveaway!
The Loot
Thanks to the awesome sponsors listed below, ten lucky subscribers will each win this sweet collection of goodies:
- A MailChimp hat and t-shirt (too valuable to list!)
- A book from the Pragmatic Bookself (we're talking paper, not bits)
- A year long digital subscribtion to Hacker Monthly ($29 value)
- Airbrake for a year (Small Account, $300 value)
- Browserling for three months (Developer Plan, $60 value)
- One month subscription to RailsCasts Pro screencasts ($9 value)
- One month subscription to Destroy All Software screencasts ($9 value)
- A free screencast from PeepCode ($12 value)
Grand Prize
I asked the companies above to be part of this because I have used and highly recommend each one, so to win all of them is simply sweet. However, to really make this a celebration we need to kick it up another notch with a grand prize. One random person out of the ten winners above will also receive:
An awesome custom wood map from Woodcut Maps! A sweet mix of technoogy and craftsmanship - map out a special place like where you thought up your startup idea that you spend each day working on.
How To Enter
The giveaway is over with, but subscribe today and we'll do this again at 25,000. :)
Here is how the winners will be picked:
- 3 random subscribers who tweet about this promotion: Tweet
- 3 random subscribers who click reply on any issue and lets me know one of their favorite articles seen on Hacker News... or, if you don't have a favorite, just let me know what sponsor offering above you would like to win the most.
- 4 random subscribers who subscribe to Wayback Letter!
- On June 8th at 8pm EST the winners will be randomly selected and notified.
Sponsor Love
Small Print
The compaines providing these awesome giveaways are great, but you never know what might happen... so the prizes may vary from what is listed above. I'll do my best to make sure it stays the same though. You can enter multiple times with the three options listed above, but you can only win one package.