Meta Start Developer Competition — Session 1 & 2 Resources 🚀

Hi everyone!

This is Tevfik here, one of the Meta Start Program mentors. 👋

Here,  I’ll be sharing resources from my sessions here so you can revisit the material throughout the competition.

Here are the slides from our first two sessions:

🎮 Session 1 — Assemble Your Party: Competition Kickoff & Team Formation

We covered:

• Competition structure, tracks, and divisions
• The benchmark journey from kickoff to submission
• New Experience vs. Adapted / Significantly Updated Experience
• Team formation and responsibilities
• Setting up a realistic working structure for the competition

💡 Session 2 — Fast Essentials: Ideation — Find Your Competition Concept

This session focused on moving from a broad idea toward something you can actually test and build.

We covered:

• Turning an idea into a focused competition concept
• Finding your core interaction
• Identifying the 10-second moment that makes your experience interesting
• Moving from concept → interaction → proof
• Using constraints to reduce scope
• Building the smallest proof and testing it with real people

The goal isn’t to find the perfect idea.You need a direction worth testing.

If you’re participating in the competition, feel free to use these decks as references while you build.

Keep sharing your progress, questions, concepts, prototypes, and builds here in the Developer Forum! 🚀

-Tevfik