The story
In 2006, Colin Nederkoorn initiated a public contest prompting programmers to develop a means for running the Windows XP operating system through an Intel Mac. Programmer Jesus Lopez eventually won the competition, which had accumulated over $13,000 in donations. Seeing this competition, Kessler soon developed ChallengePost as a means through which similar competitions could be facilitated and promoted.
At first, the company allowed any individual or organization to post a competition. Over time, their scope evolved. In 2015, ChallengePost changed its name to Devpost and focused exclusively on helping software engineers participate in hackathons, and eventually to find jobs.
From Wikipedia’s article on Devpost, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3