Who is building
Your name, email address, organization, and optional team name. We use this email for your private tracking link, ready notice, and any action needed. A team may include up to four people total.
BEFORE, DURING, OR AFTER YOUR TURN
THE KIOSK,
STEP BY STEP.
This page contains the same participation, review, email, claim, and sharing information shown at the build station, so you can read it on your phone.
WHAT YOU ENTER
Your participant and project details.
What you want built
A project name, one-line summary, and detailed prompt describing the audience, main action, information, and useful result.
What to leave out
Do not submit credentials, private records, payment cards, government IDs, medical records, biometrics, or requests to bypass access controls.
PLAN CHOICE
Stay to review, or build automatically.
See the plan first
Stay at the kiosk, approve the proposed plan, or use up to two optional feedback rounds before building.
Let the builder decide
Skip optional plan feedback. Required planning and safety checks still run, and an organizer may pause the idea if it needs review.
Track it, then open it
The first email confirms submission and links to live build tracking. The second says the app is ready and links to one optional post-build feedback round. Photograph the claim code as a backup.
SHARING CHOICES
You control who can see the finished app.
Private
Only people with your claim code can open the app. It remains eligible for the judged prizes.
Event sharing
The app can appear on the event Apps page and enter Community Choice. Showing your participant or team name is optional.
Wider sharing
The app can be shared publicly and enters Community Choice. Public sharing includes participant or team attribution.
IP + CONFIDENTIALITY
No confidential submissions or exclusive rights.
Protect sensitive ideas
Do not submit confidential, proprietary, patent-sensitive, or third-party material you are not authorized to use. Ideas and prompts submitted here are not treated as confidential.
Not commissioned work
The generated app is not commissioned work or work made for hire. Submitting does not give you exclusive ownership or control of its generated code or app.
Similar ideas may be built
MongoDB may use and modify submissions and generated apps to operate and demonstrate the Build Lab, subject to the chosen visibility. MongoDB or others may build, use, or demonstrate similar ideas.
COMMUNITY CHOICE
Three confirmed votes per email address.
Three apps total
Each email address can vote for up to three different apps during the event.
Check your email
A vote counts only after you open its confirmation link.
Used only for voting
We use the address only to confirm the vote and enforce the limit. After confirmation or expiry, the pending vote keeps only a private one-way code, never a public email address.
SCORING + PRIZES
90 points for the idea, 10 for the build.
MongoDB + technical ambition
How thoughtfully the idea uses MongoDB Atlas and the available product capabilities.
Impact + utility
How useful the product is for its intended audience.
Creativity + originality
How distinctive and compelling the idea is.
Verified implementation
Whether the deployed app delivers the promised experience. Every participant also receives a claw machine token.
WHEN IT IS READY
Open, share, or request one fix.
1
Open the deployed app from your saved claim page.
2
Choose private, event, or public visibility.
3
Change or revoke sharing later from the claim page.
4
Request one optional rebuild if data or behavior needs correction.
BUILD ASSISTANT