MongoDBBUILD LABPUBLIC EVENT GUIDE · NO PASSWORD NEEDED
MongoDB .local San Francisco · BUILD LAB

ONE PROMPT.
ONE LIVE APP.

One prompt becomes a deployed web app with a MongoDB Atlas database backend and a built-in LLM chosen for the job. You leave with a working production app and a live link.

AVAILABLE INGREDIENTS

Choose the capabilities that make your idea useful.

  • AI features — summaries, recommendations, comparisons, writing
  • Search — keyword & meaning-based
  • Images — upload, camera, AI vision, image search
  • Documents — upload & analysis
  • Maps & location — weather, directions
  • Charts & trends — data visualization

Use one ingredient or combine a few. Describe the experience you want; the builder selects the specific MongoDB Atlas features and LLM that fit it.

HOW IT WORKS

From idea to a live app.

01 · PROMPT

Describe one useful outcome

Tell us who the app is for and what it should help them do.

02 · CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Review or submit

Stay for an optional plan review, or let the builder make the product and technical decisions automatically.

03 · BUILD

We build and verify it

The builder creates the interface, MongoDB Atlas backend, LLM features, tests, and production deployment.

04 · FOLLOW BY EMAIL

Track it, then open it

After submitting, you get an email with a private tracking link and another when the app is ready. The ready page offers one optional post-build feedback round; your claim code is a backup.

BUILD ASSISTANT

Ask how to turn your idea into an app.

STARTING DATA

15 documents by default. 100 maximum.

DEFAULT

15 starter documents

When starter data fits the idea, the builder researches and writes 15 useful documents to MongoDB Atlas by default.

INITIAL LIMIT

Up to 100 documents

An initial build can contain no more than 100 documents. Apps designed around user-created content may begin empty.

AFTER DEPLOYMENT

No open-internet search

The live app cannot search the open internet for new data. New documents can come from user input or a user-triggered LLM action.

BUILD + WIN

Participate, play, and compete.

EVERY PARTICIPANT

Claw machine token

Use the token you receive after submitting your project to play while your app builds.

JUDGED PRIZES

Top team + top individual

Projects are ranked on MongoDB and technical ambition, impact and utility, creativity and originality, and the verified implementation.

COMMUNITY CHOICE

Three confirmed votes

Each email address gets three votes total. Every vote must be confirmed from the email we send. Voting emails are not used for tracking and are removed from pending votes after confirmation or expiry; only private one-way codes enforce the limit.

KEEP THIS GUIDE

Everything at the kiosk is here too.

QR code for this public MongoDB Build Lab guide
NO PASSWORD NEEDED

Use this guide to review the intake fields, build choices, sharing options, scoring, and safety boundaries before or after your turn. See the kiosk guide →

Start with one thing you want people to do.

WRITE YOUR PROMPT →
YOUR FEEDBACK

Help us improve the guide.

Real public information and ordinary app data are welcome. Never include passwords, credentials, private records, payment cards, government IDs, medical records, or biometrics in your prompt.