A name behind the work
A prize table is also a collection of people who made something. These two names appeared in the 2025 results, each next to a bot that reached the winners’ list.
Daniel Shedrack
Shared third place in the 2025 SmartBot Development Contest — one of two entries awarded third when the judges could not choose just one.
Suraj
Second place in the 2025 Ref&Earn Bot Contest, with 53 points for the submitted bot.
Tools for the next builder
The MailApp builder
15 Mar 2024
Built MailApp, an email API shared with examples for Bots.Business.
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devendra
16 Mar 2023 / 24 Apr 2023
Introduced Projectoid API services and suggested improvements to the BB VS Code extension.
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I am CC
2025–2026
Long-time BB supporter and former chat admin, elected to the team in March 2026. Helped refresh the API docs, reported an API bug, and built Bots.Business X, an unofficial client for existing BB bots. The published results of four 2025 BB contests record $725 in awards for his entries.
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Coder Ajinkya
10 Jun 2026
Shared a Temp Mail bot with source code and a video walkthrough.
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A Hinglish wording contributor
22 Oct 2024
Proposed clearer Hinglish wording for commands, users and other app labels.
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14 Nov 2024
Supplied Ukrainian wording for the iteration warning and its Check button.
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Kai
14 Nov 2024
Supplied Russian wording for the iteration warning and its Check button.
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14 Nov 2024
Supplied Turkish wording for the iteration warning and its Check button.
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21 Oct 2024
Suggested two clarifying explanations for Arabic app text.
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GREEN LOGIC
3 May 2025
Shared a short video and a longer walkthrough during the 2025 video contest.
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3 May 2025
Brought two more video entries into the community discussion in May 2025.
Read the storyFor giving the next person an example
In January 2019, BB highlighted a help bot made by a community member. That December, a keyboard-tools demo reached the Store with a companion help article by its creator.
The same habit kept going. More demos arrived, and in November 2025 the channel welcomed two builders into the BB Team: one through refreshed API documentation, another through a gift demo.
For the things that got easier
The Russian help translation was announced complete in April 2019. Later thank-yous covered a broken documentation example, a referral-library fix, help with the VS Code extension and an API bug report.
Those contributions did not all look alike. A clearer sentence, a working example and a useful report could each save the next builder a little trouble.
And for keeping the conversation going
There were volunteers welcoming new people, builders answering questions, and members testing ideas that were not ready yet. Some made their own tools. Some went on to build whole platforms.
These are a few credits from a much longer story. To everyone who left it with one more working example, one less confusing sentence or a better question: thank you.
Correction / removal request
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From the archive
Official BB channel results · SmartBot, 10 February 2025; Ref&Earn, 20 April 2025.
Official BB channel credits · help bot, 20 January 2019; keyboard demo and article, 24 December 2019; API documentation and Gift Demo, 2–3 November 2025.
Official BB channel credits · 7 April 2019; 11 and 19 January 2022; 10 April 2023; 20 April 2026.
Volunteer-role history and selected community projects · 2022–2026. This is a selection of contributions, not a complete contributor list.
