Last week, over 500 student members signed up for our first ever mini-hackathon, using Boosts to Take Back Their Internet. Tweaking Wikipedia, fine-tuning Twitter, repainting Canvas — we’ve been blown away by the ways each participant is creating their own internet.

Now we need you to vote for our People’s Choice winner. Below you’ll find a shortlist of the top 10 entries (as chosen by the Browser Co. team), from which you’ll pick your top 2.

How to vote

Check out the shortlisted 10 Boosts below
Pick your top 2 Boosts and rank them in 1st and 2nd place
Share your votes in this form (as some of the Boosts cover the same website, please take care to paste the chosen entry names exactly as written in this doc ✍️)

Judging criteria

Utility. Does it solve a real pain point? Does it make your internet noticeably better, either aesthetically or functionally?
Creativity. Does this boost address the problem in a creative way? Not in terms of code complexity, but in the solution you’re bringing to your part of the internet.
Impact. Could this boost help 5 people, 25 people, 2.5 million people? Or if it is a very personal boost, just tell us what it means to you and your internet 💙

<aside> 🗳️ Cast your votes here: https://forms.gle/879MM42wgpbok3Tb8

</aside>

The top 10 shortlist - let’s go!

1. Blackboard Boost

Blackboard Boost

Blackboard Boost takes CUNY’s Blackboard implementation and makes it a little more bearable by providing easy access to course content, grades, and announcements. By surfacing the links I use most, Blackboard Boost saves time, removes distractions, and helps me stay on track.

As a neuro-divergent person, this is invaluable to me. In fact, I’ve wanted to make something like this for years, but before Arc Boosts, I couldn’t figure out how to do it.

I love sharing this with classmates as well — who would’ve thought that you can still impress someone with a home page in 2022?

2. Mindful Twitter

Mindful Twitter

Mindful Twitter reminds you to pause and do a short mindfulness session whenever it detects that you’ve been scrolling on Twitter for an extended period of time.

I spend a lot of time on Twitter and find myself trapped in the infamous “infinite scroll” over and over again. I believe most of us also trapped in this situation without we even realize. So I created Mindful Twitter that will help you to #TakeBackYourInternet.

When it detects that you have been scrolling for a long time, it will show a pop up and ask you to do a short mindfulness session. This pop up will guide you to do mindful breathing two times. When you finish, the pop up will disappear. After you scroll again for a long time, the pop up will reappear.