We know building something great takes time. Hello world to Backdrop Boost - a new way to connect promising projects with resources they need to really take off ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Build is now a common app to some amazing accelerators, grant programs, and other ways to get funded 🚀

Very excited to announce Backdrop Boost — our next step in supporting builders at early stages ⚡️

Excited to welcome @Convex_dev back as a partner for v4! Convex is a backend-as-a-service platform built to help developers move fast and focus on the product, not the backend -- an ideal fit for our upcoming 4-week program.

Apply by April 29th: backdropbuild.com/apply

Builders: 'I'm stuck on building the API...'

Us: Get unstuck because we've partnered with Devii for v4 to turbocharge your API development.

Apply by April 29th: buff.ly/3W35nC3

Excited to announce our v4 partnership with @BraintrustData, the enterprise-grade stack for building AI products!

Use Braintrust to:

Build & improve GenAI apps with RAG 📈
Track tool usage 🛠️
Iteratively enhance outputs ↗️
Create AI-powered search 🔍
And much more! 🚀

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Stoked to have Shuttle back as a partner for v4! 🤝 builders can build with their favorite Rust framework, and let Shuttle deal with all backend infrastructure.

If you're building in Rust, join us for v4 on April 29th!

👯‍♀️ special thanks to our frens for their support:

Sanctor Capital
Paladins DAO
Blockus | The web3 gaming platform
AW Research ➡️ AA Lisbon 🇵🇹
Backdrop

& more to be revealed

YapBay has applied to the Gitcoin Hackathon Alumni round, as an alumnus of Backdrop v3.

Wish me luck! -G

🤖 Beep boop, what's that? Voiceflow is back for Build v4 to support builders working on advanced AI agents & chatbots.

If you're building conversational AI experiences that push boundaries - come build with us!

Apply by April 29th: buff.ly/3TZkGuf

Our first Builder Success Story is live! We took it waaay back to Build v1. Ponder started off as a survey tool and has evolved into a customer research platform built on Base 🛡️. Colin Johnson and Ben Adamsky's journey continues with SEED 🌱 CLUB 🚀 ! buff.ly/4aA79iO

Our friends NEAR Protocol are back again as partners for the Backdrop Build v4 program! 🙌

If you're building in web3, come build with us! V4 begins April 29th.

Apply here: backdropbuild.com/apply

Working with Lindsey Winder (🏄‍♂️,🏗) on this and now seeing these Build graduates get serious money has made me way more confident we can run these kinds of programs through Build.

If you want to use Build as an application process to support awesome builders, let's do it 🚀

PS, we're still onboarding partners for v4 and beyond.

If your tech gives builders at early stages super powers to bring their crazy idea to life, and you want to help us support tens of thousands of builders this year, I'd love to chat.

What are some good accelerators/incubators for early stage AI projects (apps and/or infra)?

Looks like we'll have 2000+ builders in v4 and we have some good connections to crypto accelerators to send promising projects — hoping to do the same for AI.

After v3, 86% of builders planned to continue making progress on their project. 93% of those are coming back for v4 🚀

Traditional hackathons are awesome for some things, but shipping something great takes more than a weekend. And for that, there's Build.

This is also why we can uniquely help builders get grants, apply to accelerators, raise money, etc — keep shipping, keep iterating, and we'll help open doors when the time is right.

>1M in grants and money raised by Build projects so far (and that's just what we've tracked).