Hacktoberfest is a month-long celebration of open source software. Started originally by our friends at Digital Ocean

This year, we're celebrating open source software by hosting a challenge for software developers. Innovation and developer of freely available software is an essential part of our ecosystem. This is why we're incenting developers to create interesting projects leveraging MongoDB Stitch and export the apps for storage on a GitHub repository.

Simply create an app and leverage MongoDB Stitch as part of the app. Export the source code for the app using the handy export capability from within Stitch. Then, create a README.md file for your project that leverages a MongoDB Stitch App Badge. Similar to the following examples.

Badges are created using a call to a MongoDB Stitch app that we wrote specifically for Hacktoberfest. You can see the source here. To place a MongoDB Stitch app on your repository, simply create a Stitch App and visit the Getting Started page of your app to find the Stitch App ID. Create an image tag in the markup of your README replacing the with your actual App ID:

![Powered by Stitch](https://webhooks.mongodb-stitch.com/api/client/v2.0/app/stitch-badges-dkhza/service/badgeservice/incoming_webhook/badge?appid=<APPID>)