Just Ask
One box. Describe any recurring task and it returns a working automation you can run immediately. Built for One Prompt — ship a useful product where the entire interface is a single prompt field. Prompt-to-automation with a live run button. The interface is deliberately narrow: one path, done properly, rather than a broad surface that half-works at the deadline.
Gallery
Screens
Just Ask — main view
Just Ask — result state
On the clock
What shipped, what didn't
Completed in time
Prompt-to-automation with a live run button.
Unfinished / faked
Automations run in a sandbox and can't touch real services.
Obstacles
Spent too long on the data model and had to build the interface in the last eight minutes.
Lessons learned
Hardcode the thing you can hardcode. Nobody is scoring your config system.
Process
Prompting approach
Started from a single system prompt describing the user and their constraint, then iterated with the assistant on the Just Ask data model before writing any interface code. Full prompt log is in the repository under /prompts.
Fairness
Disclosures
Declared by the builder at submission time, visible to judges before scoring.
Judging
Public feedback
Judges' private notes stay private — this is what they chose to say publicly.
Marcus Bell
Founder, Bellwether Studio
Excellent use of the model — it is doing actual work here, not decorating a form. The failure case you showed earned you points rather than costing them.
Hana Kobayashi
Principal Research Engineer, Independent
Strongest technical work of the day. The architecture choices are defensible at this time budget, and the demo held up under a real input.
Ravi Anand
Head of Design, Tessellate
Strongest technical work of the day. The architecture choices are defensible at this time budget, and the demo held up under a real input.
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