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title: "Best Use of Cloudinary – Junction 2026"
description: "Build an innovative solution using one of our four tools listed on cld.media/hackathons that uses images and video to create a more engaging and intelligent digital experience."
url: https://junction2026.com/challenges/cloudinary-best-use-of-cloudinary
---

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# Best Use of Cloudinary

Junction 2026 · Tech challenges

by Cloudinary

## The Challenge

#### Build an innovative solution using one of our four tools listed on cld.media/hackathons that uses images and video to create a more engaging and intelligent digital experience.

#### Description

Images and video are central to how people discover, understand, and interact with products and services. Use Cloudinary to build a hackathon project that solves a real problem through visual content.

Your project could transform, optimize, personalize, organize, or deliver images and video in a creative way. Think about who your solution helps and how visual media can make the experience faster, smarter, or more engaging.

Check out the specific tools we’d like you to use for our challenge: <https://cld.media/hackathons>.

To submit your challenge, you must fill in this form: <https://cld.media/hackathon-survey>.

#### Mentors

Jen Looper - Director, Developer Relations

Balazs Kemenesi - Lead Program Manager

## Insight

To be considered for the Cloudinary challenge, hackers must enter their project into cld.media/hackathon-survey.

You do not need to build a media platform from scratch. Cloudinary handles the complex parts of media upload, management, transformation, optimization, and delivery, allowing you to focus on your idea and the problem you want to solve.

Projects can be built with any programming language or framework, as long as Cloudinary plays a _meaningful_ role in the solution, not just a CDN.

#### How solutions will be judged:

Projects will be judged based on the originality and usefulness of the idea, the quality of the user experience, and how effectively Cloudinary is integrated into the solution. Judges will also consider technical execution, creativity, and the potential real-world impact of the project.

## Resources

Participants will use Cloudinary to upload, manage, transform, optimize, and deliver images and video within their hackathon projects. Cloudinary provides a generous free tier for developers to leverage our APIs and SDKs that make it easy to add powerful media capabilities to web and mobile applications.

Participants can use features such as image and video transformations, resizing, cropping, format and quality optimization, responsive delivery, and programmatic media management. Creative use of AI-powered media capabilities is also encouraged where relevant to the project.

Cloudinary mentors will be available to answer technical questions and help teams get started. Participants can explore the following resources:

Cloudinary documentation: <https://cloudinary.com/documentation>

Cloudinary Hackathon page: <https://cloudinary.com/pages/hackathons/>

## Challenge partner

Cloudinary

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## Company Info: Cloudinary

Website: <https://cloudinary.com/>

## Judging Criteria

- Innovation — (30%)
- Technical Implementation — (20%)
- UX / Design — (30%)
- Impact / Usefulness — (20%)

## Prizes

- 1st

  $500 worth Amazon gift cards (for your local Amazon) / team member