🎒 Netlify Back to School, Day 11 of 31. Eleven days in, ten builders have deployed 63 teaching apps, and the race has turned into a question of who hasn't missed a day. The assignment hasn't changed: build an app that teaches one idea, ship it, come back tomorrow. 🧵
What if you could focus on the feature instead of the AI plumbing? KP explains how AI Gateway takes care of model configuration and provider management so you can spend more time building.
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OpenCode is now an agent option in Agent Runners. It's open source, it was built for open models, and it slots into the exact workflow you already use. Pick a model, pick an effort level, and go!
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Something major dropping next week. Any guesses? There are 21 days left to climb. Join at ntl-back-to-school.netlify.app and see the wall at ntl-back-to-school.netlify.app/showcase. 🎒 The 59 apps are split into 33 interactive builds, 11 static explainers, 8 games, and 7 simulators. The rule from day one still holds: whatever makes the idea click counts!
Fixiki is at five apps, and the newest is Stock Market Simulator: $10,000, thirty days, see what's left. And momo joined today with Request Progress, a walkthrough of what happens between a URL and a rendered page.
raimanncostigan also hit ten with Page Fault Lab, a bilingual simulator that shows FIFO, LRU, and OPT handling every page request side by side. anishsharma and AshAmplifies hold at nine apps and nine-day streaks, and Day 10 isn't over yet.
davidvkimball matched her at ten and hung a tenth plate at yahew.com. The Blinkie: 150×20 pixels, three colors, two frames, shelved by color and never by subject. His old-web field guide now runs from 1974 Teletext to blinkies. waela takes the top spot as the first builder to go ten-for-ten. Today's hand-in is The Side Quest, a digital curiosity cabinet for people who like falling into rabbit holes. That's ten apps with no two teaching the same thing.
Week 1 crowned three winners and 20,000 credits: raimanncostigan took 10k for Pi Agent, Explained, and waela (How a Camera Sees) and swatantra-sohni (Sheet Scholar) took 5k each.
🎒 Netlify Back to School, Day 10 of 31. There's a new leader on the board, and week one has its winners. Ten builders have now deployed 59 teaching apps in ten days, and the assignment hasn't changed: build an app that teaches one idea, ship it, come back tomorrow. 🧵
You don't need every project to succeed. You need to learn quickly. Elisabeth shares how she's built 110 Netlify sites to test ideas, validate lead magnets, and find what resonates before investing more time.
And thank you to:
Benjamin van Pham: www.linkedin.com/in/bengiaa
Paola Arraut: www.linkedin.com/in/paolaarraut
Ivan Chukhran: www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-chuk... A huge thank you to this week’s active reproducers! ❤️
Carlos Urias: www.linkedin.com/in/hicarlosu...
Daniel Paredes: www.linkedin.com/in/wallsified
Paul Contreras: www.linkedin.com/in/paul-cont...
Enzo Amaral: www.linkedin.com/in/enzosamar... The Summer Repro Program brings together contributors to test reported bugs across different setups. Their reproduction attempts make a big difference, giving us more context and helping us prioritize confirmed issues.
Congratulations to Christopher Lamers, who won week two of our Summer Repro Program raffle! 🥳
www.linkedin.com/in/lamersc That's why OpenRouter support in the AI Gateway matters beyond model choice. Cheaper tokens mean more of your workflow can just run. www.netlify.com/blog/build-w... Think about the jobs you'd never hand to a frontier model by default because the math doesn't work. Summarizing every deploy log. Triaging every issue. Drafting alt text for every image upload. At open model prices, running those automatically starts to make sense.
Let's talk about what open model pricing actually changes. It isn't a discount on work you were already doing. It moves the line on what's worth doing at all.