Bryn, Jacob, Lyn, Ebrima, Ben, and Seve on the set of Web Dev Challenge. The text reads, "Web Dev Challenge community hackathon, S2.E5 Worst Developer Urges by Intuit and CodeTV"

Photos: Jason Hill

Give in to your worst developer urges and automate something unnecessary

As developers, we all know the urge to spend hours automating a task that would have taken us minutes is overpowering. In this challenge, we want you to give in to that urge and automate something in your life that you find mildly inconvenient.

Why do a thing when you could spend an inordinate amount of time building an app that does the thing for you? No task is too small. No inconvenience too minor. We want to see you create apps that automate your life in extremely specific, personal ways.

Do you have to send that one friend a reminder text to make sure they show up on time for your plans? Build an app for that! Sick of doing tech support for your family? Create an AI agent that reads the manual and responds on your behalf. You can keep it simple and practical, or go big and channel your inner Rube Goldberg — anything goes!

The Sponsor: Intuit

Intuit wants to empower the builders in our community. There’s no required tool this time around — you are the secret ingredient here.

Combine your skills in web development, problem solving, creative thinking, and leveraging new technologies like AI agents or MCP to build your personal problem-solving web app.

Make new connections and get expert guidance

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

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 Lyn and Ebrima, Bryn and Jacob, and Ben and Seve 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. Team up with a friend or work on your onw
  2. Build a web app that meets the challenge
  3. Spend 30 minutes¹ planning your app
  4. Spend 4 hours¹ building your app
  5. Use Intuit to build your web app
  6. Publish the source code as a public GitHub repo
  7. Publish the web app to a public URL
  8. Submit your web app by 11:59 pm Pacific on Monday, July 14, 2025

Submit your web app

Happy building! Let’s have some fun.