We generated ~32,000 self-contained build prompts for Midnight (and learned the hard way)
We generated ~32,000 self-contained build prompts for Midnight Midnight is a zero-knowledge L1: private state stays on the user's device, public state lands on chain, and the bridge between them is a circuit you write in a language called Compact. It's genuinely interesting technology. It also has one of the harshest first hours I've met in web3. Not because the concepts are hard. Because the…
We generated 32,000 self-contained build prompts for the zero-knowledge L1 platform Midnight. Midnight is a private-state, public-state architecture where user data stays on their device and public data lives on the blockchain. The bridge between the two is a circuit written in the Compact language. Midnight has a difficult onboarding experience due to complex environment setup and version compatibility issues.
To address this, Creative Midnight was created - a site that generates prompts to pre-pay for the environment setup.
The site features three types of content: hackathon ideas, build prompts, and scar tissue guides. There are 1,996 hackathon ideas distributed across 10 creative disciplines. Each idea is paired with a build prompt for every network variant (preview, preproduction, undeployed, undeployed-fly, mainnet, undeployed-mobile) and operating system (macOS, Windows, Linux).
This results in 31,936 unique prompt variants, generating 2 GB of text. Every prompt contains shared blocks like package sets, toolchain commands, Vite configuration, wallet boot code, and deploy scripts, making the build process more efficient. The Midnight support matrix is also included in every prompt, ensuring version compatibility.
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