Competitions

Build Real Systems. Ship Real Code.

Monthly engineering challenges designed by mentors at Google, Stripe, and NVIDIA. Form teams, get mentorship, and build portfolio projects that actually matter.

Challenges

Teams Formed

Projects Shipped

Avg Team Size

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Why Build Here

Not Your Average Hackathon

Real Mentors

Staff Engineers from Google, Stripe, and NVIDIA review your PRs and architecture decisions.

Ship to Real Users

Projects get deployed and used. Not just graded and forgotten.

Portfolio That Speaks

Built a distributed queue used by 200+ users beats a todo app every single time.

Team Matching

We pair you with complementary skills. You do backend, your partner does frontend.

Deploy Day > Demo Day

Live demos with real metrics. No slide decks, no pitch theatre.

Win & Get Noticed

Top projects get featured to our hiring partners and investor network.

Process

How It Works

Pick a Challenge

Browse active builds and find one that matches your stack.

Form a Team

2-4 members matched by skills and timezone.

Build + Ship

4-6 weeks with weekly mentor sync and code reviews.

Present & Archive

Case study published. Added to your profile forever.

Ready to build something real?

Join a team or form your own. Every challenge is a chance to learn, ship, and get noticed by the right people.

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