Make the coolest art

$250 reward. Ended . Results in. 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

Winners claim their rewards from this bounty's escrow account: $236.00 of $250.00 has been claimed.

Winning solution

Drawing the Sea

1st place, @superskie, $50

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Paid rewards

18 rewards paid in USDC on Solana, each listed with its transaction signature.

  1. $50.00 USDC @superskie

    Make the coolest art, 1st place, Paid

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  2. $35.00 USDC @amin09216

    Make the coolest art, 2nd place, Paid

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  3. $25.00 USDC @icantcodefyi

    Make the coolest art, 3rd place, Paid

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  4. $10.00 USDC @ronigrv

    Make the coolest art, 4th place, Paid

    2fKDswDvpAzUcyRCJ4RFcLu8GUg3kz78A2t2kx2JuEhDjfdwABs5RFxzcs4JhcpR37vhJRjcJBEzcUumq8wtSTbF

  5. $10.00 USDC @coral-beacon-44

    Make the coolest art, 5th place, Paid

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  6. $10.00 USDC @0xnamina

    Make the coolest art, 6th place, Paid

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  7. $10.00 USDC @gentle-badger-68

    Make the coolest art, 7th place, Paid

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  8. $10.00 USDC @eric

    Make the coolest art, 8th place, Paid

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  9. $10.00 USDC @crave

    Make the coolest art, 9th place, Paid

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  10. $10.00 USDC @man467

    Make the coolest art, 10th place, Paid

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  11. $7.00 USDC @dhcnsaaa-cloud

    Make the coolest art, 11th place, Paid

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  12. $7.00 USDC @alanam

    Make the coolest art, 12th place, Paid

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  13. $7.00 USDC @edison

    Make the coolest art, 15th place, Paid

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  14. $7.00 USDC @mellow-ibis-76

    Make the coolest art, 16th place, Paid

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  15. $7.00 USDC @berlinn

    Make the coolest art, 17th place, Paid

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  16. $7.00 USDC @wiragagalmenguasaibumi

    Make the coolest art, 18th place, Paid

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  17. $7.00 USDC @brisk-harbor-57

    Make the coolest art, 19th place, Paid

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  18. $7.00 USDC @jolly-comet-95

    Make the coolest art, 20th place, Paid

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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