This is a submission for the World’s Largest Hackathon Writing Challenge: Building with Bolt.
My plan is to update this essay for the duration of this challenge. Essentially to write how I felt, what i remember doing during the WLH, rather than submitting a full essay in one go.
The Start:
Wrote on 11.07.25
A HACHATHON that gives you the tools to embrace your creativity really is a big time opportunity to show the world what you can do. So when the builder’s pack was being distributed, I was very excited to as I waited to receive my own pack. I felt like I could make any application I wanted, with a Pro subscription with Bolt.new, Elevenlabs, dev.to, an many others, the world was TRUELY my oyster. The desire to make anything that I could think of was possible.
Then when I finally received my own Builder’s Pack. It was go time. I already read through the rules and understood the challenge. Now, I had the toolbox. I got my Pro sub for Bolt.new, then I went on to make my first project. I knew what application I wanted to build, so went I prompted bolt what to build, was very happy to see it build what is requested on the first try. My only problem was that, I didn’t know how I wanted it to look – and I’m a designer – so I planned to rather get the application functional first, then build its form afterwards.
TO BE CONTINUED