a movie poster that shows a snarling wolf on an orange background, with a moon and bats behind it. the text reads "Byte Night" and lists the names of the developers and advisors

Illustration: Si Heard

The prompt: build an app that’s haunted. Make it spooky, make it creepy — let’s have a little Halloween fun.

Your app should get into the Halloween spirit in its functionality, user experience, or design. The specifics are up to you: it can be fun or funny, like a Scooby-Doo episode; it can be scary like a horror movie; it can be something totally unexpected.

Let’s build some apps to put a few “bytes” into Fright Night!

Apps must use Convex as part of the build.

Make new connections and get expert guidance

We’ve set up a dedicated channel in the Learn With Jason Discord called #builder-chat for brainstorming, sharing ideas, and keeping each other accountable.

Find an accountabilibuddy, get expert guidance from the industry professionals, run your idea past Jason and other community members, and listen in to what the rest of the community is cooking up in this open call to kick off the hackathon.

RSVP to add it to your calendar:

The first 5 devs to submit a qualifying app get their choice of gear

The first 5 qualifying apps submitted will receive an item of their choice, up to $150 value, from one of the following sites:

Watch the episode for inspiration

See how Joel, Doug, Danny, and Jason tackled the challenge in the latest episode of Web Dev Challenge to jumpstart your own creativity.

The rules and how to submit

If you want to play along, here’s how:

  1. Build a web app that meets the challenge
  2. Spend 30 minutes¹ planning your app
  3. Spend 4 hours¹ building your app
  4. Use Convex to build your web app
  5. Publish the source code as a public GitHub repo
  6. Publish the web app to a public URL
  7. Submit your web app by 11:59 pm Pacific on Monday, Nov 11, 2024

Submit your web app

Happy building! Let’s have some fun.