Build an app for monsters

What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build? Shruti Kapoor, Zrybea Whitfield, Annie Sexton, and Jason Lengstorf took on the Web Dev Challenge to find out.

The Challenge

Monsters have arrived! Make an app that's helpful in this new world. What kind of monster is up to you! Maybe kaiju have emerged from the ocean. Maybe Pokémon are actually real. Maybe gremlins were discovered. Maybe cryptids finally got caught on camera. Make ‘em cute, make ‘em scary, make ‘em fun — your call!

The Tools

Apps are encouraged to use one or more of the sponsors' tools in their build.

• Clerk is a drop-in auth solution that will make it very straightforward to add user accounts and protected areas to your app.
• Convex is a really interesting tool because it’s effectively a full back-end for apps, offering stuff like a database, real-time, scheduling, server functions, and a lot more.
• Raycast is the “shortcut for everything”. It’s a launcher app (like spotlight search on macOS) that has extensions for… everything.