Built something at HackMeridian?

Keep it going with the Stellar Wave.

Bring your project into the next Stellar Wave as a maintainer. Turn your roadmap into issues, and get developers in the ecosystem shipping them with you.

Sign up with GitHub

Sign up through this link and apply your repos by November 7th. They’ll automatically be part of the HackMeridian cohort.

Learn more

Don’t let it stall after the hackathon

You’ve got a working project, a roadmap and momentum. Keeping that pace once the event ends is the hard part: finding contributors, staying focused, shipping.

The Stellar Wave runs every month. Maintainers add well-scoped issues from their repos, developers apply to solve them, and everyone who ships earns rewards from the Wave’s pool. You review, guide and merge. Drips handles the rest, with no spreadsheets, no interviews and no cost to you.

Good maintainer work is rewarded too. The Wave is designed to reward you for creating quality issues for others to work on, not just contributors for completing them.

How to get started

  1. 1

    Sign up with the HackMeridian link

    Sign in to the Drips Wave app with your GitHub account using the link below. It marks you as part of the HackMeridian cohort, so make sure you use this one. The app is where you’ll manage your project, your repos and your Wave issues.

    Sign up with GitHub
  2. 2

    Add your organization and repos

    Once you’re signed in, install the Drips Wave GitHub app on the organization that hosts your project. This lets Drips sync your public repos and track the issues you want to bring into the Wave.

    Then select the repos you want to use and apply them to the Stellar Wave program. Apply by November 7th, and your repos are automatically part of the HackMeridian cohort.

    Add your repos
  3. 3

    Wait for approval

    You’ll get an email and an in-app notification once your repos are accepted. You can also check your application status in the maintainer dashboard.

  4. 4

    Add issues from your roadmap

    Once your repo is approved, its issues appear in your maintainer issues dashboard. From there, choose which ones to add to the program.

    This is where your hackathon roadmap comes in. Take the milestones you already want to hit and break them into clear, scoped issues contributors can ship for you, like:

    • Features you already know need building
    • Bug fixes
    • Improvements to UX or flows
    • Integrations
    • Technical cleanup that unblocks the next phase of the project
  5. 5

    Set your issues up well

    When you add an issue, give it a complexity level: trivial, medium or high. It sets how many Points a contributor earns for completing it.

    The clearer your issues are, the easier it is for contributors to help you move faster.

That’s it. You’re ready for the next Wave.

Once these steps are done, your project is in a great position for the Wave ahead.

Sign up with GitHub

More in the Drips docs