Follow Bryant as he embarks on missions to speed-build apps using Directus, within a tight limit of just 60 minutes. Armed with Directus and any other essential tools, his goal is to either fully develop the app's core functionality, or make significant progress, within the allotted hour.
Play Latest EpisodeSeason 3 2025
Episode 1: Mission: AI Letters to Santa
Bryant builds a holiday-themed app that generates personalized letters from "Open Source Santa" based on GitHub profiles. Watch as he creates a system that analyzes developers' repositories, determines whether they're on the open source naughty or nice list, and generates snarky, sarcastic letters from Santa — complete with festive styling and holiday cheer.
Episode 2: Mission: Multisite CMS
Amid the WordPress drama, Bryant builds a multi-site CMS system that lets you manage content for multiple websites from a single Directus instance. Watch as he sets up relationships between sites, pages, and users, then configures advanced permissions to ensure content editors can only access sites they're assigned to—all while creating a secure API structure for your frontend applications.
Episode 3: Mission: Rabbitar Directory
Hop along with Bryant as he attempts to build a management system for AI-generated rabbit avatars ("Rabbitars"). Watch him tackle importing hundreds of images, setting up trait relationships, and creating an automated flow to generate new characters with DALL-E—all in just 60 minutes.
Episode 4: Mission: Help Center
Bryant tackles the challenge of building a documentation site that lets content editors manage help articles through a CMS instead of markdown files. Watch as he sets up a backend with Directus—creating categories, articles, and tags relationships—before diving into a frontend template to bring it all together in his race against the clock.
Episode 5: Mission: Feedback Widget
Bryant builds an embeddable feedback widget for documentation sites that captures user ratings and comments with a decisive 4-point scale. Watch as he creates a complete system with slick animations and wraps it in an iframe-friendly package, then builds a dashboard to visualize feedback metrics with conditional styling.
Episode 6: Mission: Internal Knowledgebase
Bryant builds a Guru-inspired knowledge base with bite-sized information cards accessible through a Chrome extension. Watch as he creates a Directus backend with verification flows, then builds a browser extension interface that makes company knowledge searchable and editable on the fly—despite a tricky bug that nearly derails the entire project.
Episode 7: Mission: Website Personalization Engine
Bryant builds a content personalization system that shows different variations of web content based on visitor segments. Watch as he uses Directus to create a flexible backend for managing segment-specific content variations, then implements client-side detection to serve the right content to the right visitors.
Episode 8: Mission: Company Intranet
Bryant takes on the challenge of building a company intranet portal for fictional company "Initech" (complete with Office Space branding). Watch as he implements Google single sign-on, creates team structures with reporting hierarchies, sets up permission-based content access, and designs an announcement system. Follow along as he transforms Directus into a fully-functional corporate portal where employees see only what they're supposed to—TPS reports and all.
Episode 9: Mission: AI Personalized Landing Page
Watch Bryant create a system that generates custom landing pages for target companies by scraping their websites and using AI to craft personalized sales pitches. With a mix of Directus hooks, FireCrawl for content scraping, and the Anthropic API for copywriting, he builds a complete workflow that transforms company data into engaging sales pages for his fictional developer seat cushion business.
Episode 10: Mission: AI Copilot
Bryant takes on his most ambitious challenge yet: building an AI Copilot that integrates directly with Directus data. Watch as he races against the clock to create a custom chat interface that can query your database, implement tool calling functionality, and (attempt to) persist conversations. Things get meta when Bryant uses AI to help build his AI assistant—with some hilariously chaotic results along the way.
Season 2 2024
Episode 1: Mission: Customer Relationship Manager
In this intense one-hour challenge, watch as Bryant incredibly builds a full-featured custom CRM from the ground up using Directus. He builds contacts, organizations, deal pipelines, activities, and more.
Episode 2: Mission: Equipment Booking Manager
In a fast and furious hour, Bryant tackles building an equipment booking manager. Watch as he designs and implement a system to manage videography and photography gear, including features for checking items in and out, reserving equipment, and maintaining a comprehensive inventory dashboard.
Episode 3: Mission: Virtual Events Platform
In this 60 min sprint, Bryant builds a virtual events platform that's similar to webinar services like Zoom, Livestorm, and others. Can he build all the functionality like event scheduling, event registration, separate break out rooms, and an integration to Whereby?
Episode 4: Mission: Realtime Leaderboard
Bryant races against the clock to build a real-time leaderboard for the Directus Arcade game – Duckin' Cold Emails. Watch as he builds features to submit and display high scores for the game using Directus Realtime and websockets.
Episode 5: Mission: Remote Job Board
Race right along with Bryant as he tackles building a virtual job board inspired by We Work Remotely. He tries to build a ton of functionality in just 60 mins – job listings, integrating categories and companies, and job post submissions with Directus and Nuxt.
Episode 6: Mission: Freelancer Marketplace
Today, we learn a new acronym "JFI" = Just Fiverr It. Join Bryant as he tries to build a clone of the popular online marketplace for freelancers in just 60 minutes.
Episode 7: Mission: Databox Clone
It’s time to act on your data. So join Bryant as he sprints to build a KPI dashboard to better understand your data. He dives into metrics vs events and pulling in data from third party systems.
Episode 8: MIssion: Intercom Messenger Clone
It's a race to a real-time chat widget in this episode. Bryant tries to build his own version of the Intercom Messenger - a business messaging widget that includes live chat, helpful articles, and other rich content.
Episode 9: Mission: Social Media Platform
It’s social time. Join Bryant as he races to build a social media platform with registration, content feed and the ability to dish out likes and follows in just 60 minutes.
Episode 10: Mission: Form Builder
Join Bryant for his final 60 minute rush of the season as he attempts to plan and build a form builder.
Season 1 2023
Episode 1: Mission: Expensify Clone
Expensify is an expense management tool that tracks receipts, rolls them up into business reports and documents, and handles the approval workflow. Bryant has one hour to build it (or die trying).
Episode 2: Mission: Learning Management System
From creating and organizing course content, managing instructors and students, and tracking enrollments and completions, Bryant has sixty minutes on the clock.
Episode 3: Mission: Swag Platform
Gifting platforms are how we get goodies in the hands of community members and customers. Bryant needs to figure out how to manage products, build pages to handle the giveaways, and manage fulfillment.
Episode 4: Mission: SaaS App
Building multi-user is a common convention when building Software as a Service. Bryant has an hour to build a todo app which manages users, teams, and ensures data can only be accessed within a team.
Episode 5: Mission: Product Information Management
Join Bryant as he tackles creation of a product information management system to manage and distribute product data to e-commerce channels. He has one hour to build the data model, add some data, and create an integration to automatically push products to Shopify.
Episode 6: Mission: AI App Generator
What if you could build an app that builds itself? That's the question Bryant seeks to answer in one hour on this AI themed episode. Follow along as he builds a custom Directus extension that connects with the OpenAI GPT-4 API and updates the projects underlying data model based on a simple prompt.
Episode 7: Mission: Community Platform
Every thriving community needs a home. Dive right in alongside Bryant and he builds a community platform inspired by Circle. He races against the clock to build an engaging and interactive community space in just one hour.
Episode 8: Mission: Netflix Clone
It's Bryant vs the streaming giant – Netflix – in this exciting episode. He has just one hour to build an app that replicates the core functionalities of the video streaming service.
Episode 9: Mission: Food Delivery App
Food delivery apps exploded during the pandemic. But what does it take to actually build one? Follow along with Bryant as he has 60 minutes on the clock to build a backend, create a menu, and place an order in his Doordash clone.
Episode 10: Mission: Airbnb
Can Bryant follow AirBnb's trajectory from scrappy startup to short term rental royalty – and build an AirBnb clone in one hour or less? Follow along as he attempts to builds a complete backend and frontend to manage rental listings, bookings, hosts, and more.
Episode 11: Mission: Slack (Live Episode)
In this special edition live episode, Bryant is joined by Kevin, Alex, and Matt to build a clone on Slack in just one hour with Directus Realtime and Nuxt. Join the absolute chaos as friends and colleagues try to "help" against the clock.