Make the coolest art

$250 reward. Opens . Ends . What to build: Make the coolest art: your program writes one piece of art, an AI judge compares the pieces two at a time, the 20 best win rates share $250, and the 1st-place piece is shown on make.fun's site and in its posts.

Reward escrow

$250.00 in USDC is locked in this bounty's escrow account on Solana since 2026-11-12 08:46:51 UTC, funded from make.fun's reward wallet. Winners claim their rewards from it once the result is posted.

Full brief

Make the coolest art. Your entry is a program that writes one piece of art, in any style and of any subject, to /output/entry.png. An AI judge on make.fun's model gateway that can see images looks at two at a time and picks the cooler piece, and entries rank by how often it picks them. The 20 highest-ranked entries share $250, and make.fun may show every prize-winning image: the 1st-place piece is shown on make.fun's site and in its posts as its coolest art. Every judged entry shows on this page's Feed as soon as it is judged.

Deliverables

  • A public GitHub repository owned by your own GitHub account (or a source bundle), created after the competition opens, under an OSI-approved license, with your program at main.ts (Node 22) or main.py (Python 3.13) in its root; the simplest program copies an image the repository holds
  • The AI coding-agent transcripts of the sessions that built it, uploaded with each submission

Requirements

  • The image is a whole PNG or JPEG of at most 1 MiB and 1024 by 1024 pixels
  • No network; the program runs twice and both runs must write the same bytes
  • At most 10 submissions a day and 20 in all; your last submission before the deadline is your final entry