The open platform for builders on NEAR — discover builders, showcase projects, and get them funded. Built on everything.dev as a tenant runtime, composed via Module Federation and every-plugin, running on NEAR Protocol.
git clone https://github.com/nearbuilders/everything-dev.git
cd nearbuilders.org
cp .env.example .env # Add your secrets
docker compose up -d --wait # Start PostgreSQL (4 databases)
bun install
bun run dev # Starts UI + API locally, host is remoteVisit http://localhost:3003 (UI), http://localhost:3001 (API).
This repository is a tenant runtime that extends the parent everything.dev platform:
bos://dev.everything.near/everything.dev ← parent platform (host, auth, API shell)
└── bos://work.efiz.near/nearbuilders.org ← this tenant (UI, plugins, branding)
What nearbuilders.org provides:
- Builders — A curated directory of NEAR builders with moderation, skills, and social links
- Projects — A ranked project board with upvoting, markdown editing, and GitHub integration
- Custom UI — Branding, navigation, and pages tailored for the builder community
A curated directory of NEAR builders. Every builder gets a profile — skills, social links, NEAR Social cross-referencing, and on-chain verification. Admin moderation (pending → approved → rejected) keeps the directory high-signal.
Builder profiles are the connective tissue of the ecosystem. They make builders discoverable, make past work verifiable, and make it easy for projects and teams to find the right people.
A project dashboard where builders pitch their work for funding and NEAR Legion members request projects they want built.
But it's more than a pitch board:
- Hackathon project database — Every past hackathon project in one place, not lost to event pages that disappear. A living source of potential projects and teams worth continuing.
- Community-upgraded ideas — Ideas get upvoted, refined, and matched with builders who can execute them. The best surface organically.
- Talent & team retention — Hackathon teams that worked well together stay discoverable. Good combos persist, not just good projects.
- Make the most of hackathons — The energy and output from every event feeds back into the platform, so nothing gets lost and everything compounds.
Projects and ideas get upvote ranking, markdown editing, GitHub README integration, and on-chain app linking.
This is a tenant deployment — the Docker image inherits from the parent and overlays nearbuilders.org configuration.
- Image source:
ghcr.io/nearbuilders/everything-dev:latest - Staging:
ghcr.io/nearbuilders/everything-dev:staging
Required runtime vars (in addition to inherited ones):
APP_ENV—productionorstagingAPI_DATABASE_URL— API database connection stringPROJECTS_DATABASE_URL— Projects plugin databaseBUILDERS_DATABASE_URL— Builders plugin databaseNOMINATION_TOKEN_SECRET— Nomination token signing secret, at least 32 charactersBETTER_AUTH_SECRET— Session encryption key
This project uses Biome for linting and formatting:
bun lint # Check linting
bun lint:fix # Fix auto-fixable issues
bun format # Format codeBiome is configured in biome.json at the project root. Generated files (like routeTree.gen.ts) are automatically excluded.
Frontend:
- React 19 + TanStack Router (file-based) + TanStack Query
- Tailwind CSS v4 + shadcn/ui components
- Module Federation for microfrontend architecture
- Builder directory with admin moderation workflow
- Project board with live upvote ranking (SSE)
Backend:
- Hono.js server + oRPC (type-safe RPC + OpenAPI)
- every-plugin architecture for modular APIs
- Effect-TS for service composition
Database & Auth:
- PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM (4 databases: api, auth, projects, builders)
- Better-Auth with NEAR SIWN (inherited from everything.dev)
This repository ships two IronClaw skills that give AI agents working knowledge of the NEAR Builders platform. Place the skills/ directory in your IronClaw workspace (or ~/.ironclaw/skills/ for global access) and the agent will activate them when relevant.
- near-builders — Discover, search, and manage builder profiles. Activates on mentions of builders, talent search, or the NEAR Builders directory.
- near-projects — Create, discover, and manage projects and ideas. Activates on mentions of projects, ideas, hackathons, funding, or pitching.
# Install skills globally
cp -r skills/near-builders ~/.ironclaw/skills/
cp -r skills/near-projects ~/.ironclaw/skills/
ironclaw skills list # Verify they loadedBrowse more skills at IronHub.
- IronClaw — Secure AI agent OS with sandboxed skills and tools
- everything.dev — The parent runtime platform that nearbuilders.org extends
- every-plugin — Plugin framework for modular APIs with typed contracts and runtime composition
- near-kit — Unified NEAR Protocol SDK
- better-near-auth — NEAR SIWN + gasless relay for Better-Auth
nearbuilders.org sits within a broader ecosystem building a verifiable internet on NEAR:
- BOS — Composable on-chain frontend components
- web4 — Web apps as verifiable on-chain smart contracts
- near-dns — Blockchain-backed DNS resolution
- NameSky — Named accounts as tradeable on-chain assets
- OutLayer — TEE-attested verifiable off-chain computation
- NEAR Intents — Intent-based cross-chain settlement ($15B+ volume)
- NEAR Catalog — NEAR ecosystem app catalog
- NEAR AI — AI agents and infrastructure on NEAR
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