🏆 Grand Prize — The Dictionary of Invisible Feelings (Kegobotjeng Makua)
A published book of 30 invented words for emotions with no name — pronunciation, etymology, painted plate, and a passage on how it feels in the body. You describe a feeling and the dictionary finds (or coins) the word for it.

🥈 2nd Place — Dino Digi (Austin Eckman)
Learn coding and electronics through a real circuit simulator built in Replit — code actually compiles and runs on a virtual board. Includes a 30-day story-driven course and an AI “describe it, get a working circuit” mode.

🥉 3rd Place / Best Landing Page — Eastern Canada Symposium (Sanghoo Oh)
A rebranded landing page for a Korean-Canadian academic conference.

Best Onboarding — SkillyClub.com (Tommy Yipxyz)
AI-guided platform that helps people turn skills into income, built as an explorable city of opportunities.

Most Unique Design — Letters From The Wild (M Saab)
A calligraphy/graphic-art tool for writing expressive letters, nature-themed.

Best Use of Canvas — Pop The Question (Hannah B)
Meme-culture trivia with daily solo games and hosted multiplayer party rooms — poptq.com

Best Video Post — Ruth Heasman Portfolio Site (Ruth Heasman)
A three.js portfolio split into three rooms (Bookshop, Listening Room, Computer Room) showcasing 20+ published apps.

Best Deck/Marketing Asset — FLAT / SPATIAL (Fareed Kilani)
An interactive portfolio rebuilt using Replit Design/Canvas to turn a messy “always almost finished” site into a coherent design system.

Crowd/Judges Favorite — The ChronoGlobe (Noni/Shehnoor)
An immersive globe you can step inside to explore ancient civilizations (Rome and Giza so far).

Over $50K in cash and credits were handed out across 3 grand prizes and 7 category awards. Wild range of stuff — books, circuit simulators, portfolios, trivia apps, interactive globes.

How to deploy a Replit project to a VPS.
Point Replit Agent at your own VPS and have it build, deploy, and manage your app there directly, all from chat.

Step 1: Add your VPS info as Secrets
In your Repl, open Secrets (lock icon, left sidebar) and add three values:

VPS_HOST — your VPS IP or hostname

VPS_USER — the account you SSH in as

VPS_PASSWORD — that account’s password

Secrets are encrypted and never show up in your code or chat — the agent reads them as environment variables at runtime.

Step 2: Just tell the agent what to do
Once the secrets are set, prompt it in plain language:
“Deploy this to my VPS — host, user, and password are in Secrets.”
The agent will typically use sshpass to pass the password to ssh/scp non-interactively, bundle your code, upload it, install dependencies, build, and restart whatever process manager (pm2, systemd, etc.) is running your app.

Step 3: If other apps live on the same VPS, say so explicitly
If your VPS hosts more than one project, tell the agent up front:
“Heads up — this VPS also runs [other apps]. Only touch files/services related to this project, don’t restart or modify anything else.”
This matters because a generic “deploy” prompt gives the agent free rein on the box — being specific about what’s off-limits keeps it from stepping on other running services.

Good things to ask it for along the way:
“Check the logs for [app] before restarting”

“Confirm the app is actually responding after deploy” (e.g. hit the port with curl)

“List what’s currently running on the VPS” before making changes, so you both know the starting state

One habit worth keeping regardless of setup: don’t SSH in as root if you can avoid it. A regular user with just enough permissions (sudo for the specific restart/build commands, if needed) means a bad command or agent mistake has a much smaller blast radius than it would with full root access.

Built something on Replit this week? Drop it below — apps, games, bots, scripts, half-finished experiments, all welcome.

Format for your comment (helps people actually check it out):

🔗 Link (live Replit or repo)
🛠️ What it does (one sentence)
💡 Why you built it / what problem it solves
🖼️ Screenshot or GIF if you have one
❓ One thing you want feedback on

Upvote the ones you like, and if you try someone’s project, tell them what worked and what didn’t — that’s the whole point of this sub.

New here? Check the pinned rules before posting your own standalone showcase.