Build With AI: Basics

Build With AI: Basics
Build a working first draft of an app in an afternoon using AI best practices, with a set of reusable skills in your coding agent. Learn with a live build session, office hours, community, and a $2,500 prize pool, while creating something useful to your work or your life.
About the challenge
Devpost has launched a new kind of hackathon: shorter, built around learning, and open to join every month.
Have you ever asked an AI to help you code something, only to watch it repeat a mistake you already fixed, forget a decision you made ten prompts ago, or hand back code that "works" but you can't explain? It happens to almost everyone who starts building with AI. Nobody showed you the basics.
This hackathon does. You'll build a proof of concept: a small app that runs and does one thing end to end. To get there, you'll install the
Devpost Learn Skill Pack
, step-by-step guides that live inside your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any agent that supports skills). The skills interview you about your idea, help you plan it before any code gets written, build it with you, and get it ready to submit. You'll finish with a running app, the plan that got you there, and a habit you can reuse on every project after this one.
Why
join
Learn to plan before you build, by letting the AI interview you. It's the habit that keeps AI-built projects from turning into a mess.
Try skills in your coding agent: reusable, step-by-step guides that work across Claude Code, C

Requirements
What to Submit
Your project: a short demo video (1 to 3 minutes, a screen recording is fine) and a public GitHub, GitLab, or BitBucket repo URL. Reviewers won't clone or run code, so the video has to show it working.
A short description: what it does, who it's for, what you learned.

Judging Criteria
Design
Does the project deliver a complete, coherent product experience — not just a technical proof of concept?
Innovation/Idea
How creative and novel is the concept and does the project differ from existing concepts?
Presentation
Does the video clearly demonstrate the project working end-to-end? Does the pitch communicate what problem is solved, who it's for, and why it matters? Is the overall presentation easy to follow?