Maker and Community Member of the Year 🏆😺

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Maker and Community Member of the Year 🏆😺

Today, we’d like to announce the Golden Kitty Award nominees for Maker and Community Member of the year, a celebration of a few of the people that made 2016 awesome. This year we took a data-driven approach in selecting the people that received the most upvotes for things they made or hunted, in addition to other factors. Here they are:

Maker of the Year: Lucy Guo, Mikael Cho, Moritz Kobrna, Mubashar Iqbal, Seth Louey.

Community Member of the Year: Chris Messina, Gabriel Lewis, Jack Dweck, Jack Smith, Kevin William David.

The winners will be announced together with the 13 product categories on Monday morning. Voting ends this Sunday at 7pm PST.

Vote Here 🏆

Highlight

Golden Kitty Product Spotlight: The first A.I. powered mobile browser and Hardbound are ahead for Mobile App of the Year, Tesla is leading the Sexiest category, and the Gboard team is dancing their way to Tech's #1 spot! 👯🎉

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