- 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
MongoDB BUILD LAB
ONE PROMPT.
ONE LIVE APP.
Describe an idea once. The Build Lab turns it into a deployed web app with a MongoDB Atlas database backend and a built-in LLM chosen for the job.
Build a functioning app from just a prompt.
Enter your prompt at a Build Lab kiosk, then scan the Apps QR code to explore what attendees built and vote for your favorite. The best apps can win prizes. A MongoDB employee can help at the station.
SEE HOW THE KIOSK WORKS →AVAILABLE INGREDIENTS
Choose only what the idea needs.
Use one ingredient or combine a few. Describe what people should be able to do, and the builder will choose the MongoDB Atlas features and LLM.
HOW IT WORKS
From prompt to live app.
Describe one useful outcome
Tell us who the app is for and what it should help them do.
Safety checks come first
Your prompt is reviewed before planning begins. If it needs a change or organizer review, the next screen explains what to do.
No extra approval step
If the request clears review, the planner sends it directly to the build queue. You can leave after submitting.
We build, test, and notify you
The builder creates and tests the app. You get a private tracking link, another email when the app is ready, and one optional post-build feedback round.
BUILD ASSISTANT
Ask a question about your build.
STARTING DATA
15 documents by default. 100 maximum.
15 starter documents
When starter data fits the idea, the builder researches and writes 15 useful documents to MongoDB Atlas by default.
Up to 100 documents
An initial build can contain no more than 100 documents. Apps designed around user-created content may begin empty.
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
Build, explore, and vote.
Track your build
Use your private email link to follow progress and open your app when it is ready.
Top team + top individual
Projects are ranked on MongoDB and technical ambition, impact and utility, creativity and originality, and the verified implementation.
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.
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.