Meeting Bingo

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Inspiration

Meetings can often be repetitive, awkward, or just a little too predictable. We wanted to turn that shared experience into something fun and social. Meeting Bingo was born out of a desire to make meetings more engaging, helping teams bond through humor and shared observations.

What it does

Meeting Bingo lets you pick the type of meeting you're in—like "stand-up", "all-hands", or "client call"—and gives you a bingo card with phrases or behaviors common to that setting (e.g., “Can you repeat that?”, “You're on mute”, “Let’s take that offline”). You play in real-time with your teammates and see who gets bingo first!

How we built it

We built Meeting Bingo as a simple web app using Next.js + Convex. The frontend serves dynamic bingo cards based on the selected meeting type, while real-time interactions (like marking squares or checking for bingo) are synced for everyone in the room.

Challenges we ran into

• Creating meeting-type-specific bingo cards that felt both funny and universally relatable.
• Keeping real-time interactions smooth across users with minimal latency.
• Designing the game to be unobtrusive and light enough to not distract from the actual meeting.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• We launched a working multiplayer bingo experience in a short time.
• People actually laughed and bonded over it during real meetings.
• The dynamic card generation and real-time sync worked better than expected.

What we learned

• Humor is a powerful tool for connection, even in the most corporate settings.
• Small, playful interactions can change the energy of routine meetings.
• Building multiplayer experiences is more about timing and sync than just UI polish.

What's next for Meeting Bingo

• Add custom card creation for teams to tailor the game to their company culture.
• Slack/Teams integrations for easy launch directly from a meeting invite.
• A “reaction” system to cheer on or lightly roast teammates during bingo.
• Analytics to surface the most frequently triggered bingo squares per team.

Built With

• bolt
• convex
• nextjs