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Join us for the Nylas AI and Communications Challenge: $3,000 in Prizes!

We are thrilled to partner with Nylas to bring the community a brand new challenge.

Running through August 18 September 1, the Nylas Challenge is an opportunity to build with the only platform that gives developers universal access to email, calendar, and contacts providers (Gmail, Outlook, IMAP, etc.) through a single integration.

There are two prompts for this challenge and a $3,000 prize pool. As always, all participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge for rising to the occasion.

Our Prompts

AI Expedition 🚀

For the AI Expedition Prompt, your job is to build a Nylas app with a RAG or an AI agent implementation. You are free to use any Nylas API and any third-party AI tool.

Your submission will be judged on use of underlying technology, usability/user experience, accessibility, and creativity.

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

AI Expedition Submission Template

Galaxy Brain 💫

For the Galaxy Brain Prompt, your job is to build the most off-the-walls creative app you can imagine with one or more Nylas APIs.

Your submission will be judged on use of underlying technology, accessibility, creativity, and popularity potential. Let’s see how out-of-this-world you can get!

Here is the submission template for anyone that wants to jump right in, but please review all challenge rules on the official challenge page before submitting.

Galaxy Brain Submission Template

Prizes

The AI Expedition Winner (1) will receive:

The Galaxy Brain Winner (1) will receive:

All Participants with a valid submission will receive a completion badge on their DEV profile.

How To Participate

In order to participate, you will need to publish a post using the submission template associated with your prompt. All submissions must have an MIT License to be considered valid.

  • You do not need a credit card to sign up for Nylas and all submissions will be judged on the featureset offered in the free tier offering.

  • You may incorporate any third-party AI tool as part of your submission. Here some options that offer robust free tiers:

By participating, you are granting Nylas permission to showcase your submission in their Inspiration Gallery. Whether your project is featured is at their team’s discretion.

Please review our full rules, guidelines, and FAQ page before submitting so you understand our participation guidelines and official contests rules such eligibility requirements.

Additional Resources

Not quite sure what to build? Explore the Nylas Inspiration gallery for ideas!

Not sure where to start? You can get to know the Nylas Platform by utilizing their docs and tutorials:

If you need help troubleshooting, just drop a question into the Nylas Developer Community Forum.

Important Dates

  • August 07: Nylas Challenge begins!
  • August 18 September 1: Submissions due at 11:59 PM PDT
  • August 20 September 3: Winners Announced

We hope you enjoy the power of simplicity, and we can’t wait to see what you build! Questions about the challenge? Ask them below.

Good luck and happy coding!

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Ash Ryan Arnwine

Hi everyone! I'm Ash at Nylas.

Email and Calendar data + AI is super interesting to hack on. I know because I've done it myself for vibebox.app/

If you need a hand getting started, jump into our forums:
forums.nylas.com/

Good luck and have fun!

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Abdulramon Jemil

Hi @ashryan_io , I was looking through the notification Docs and I found that there's no message.deleted event. What is the recommended way to detect message deletion?

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Ash Ryan Arnwine

Hi @abdulramonjemil, thanks for tackling this Nylas challenge!

Have you tried posting in our forums? This is something our Developer Advocates could help out with there.

forums.nylas.com

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Alice

Interesting project!

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Alvaro (Blag) Tejada Galindo

Hello @abdulramonjemil I'm Blag from @nylas

For future questions, please use our Nylas Forums: forums.nylas.com/latest

We don't have any notification for message deletion as you found on the docs. If you move something to the trash you will get a message.update notification, but this can be also fired when you read or reply a message. The best work around would be to check the trash folder in a timely interval. To see the id of the trash folder you can use developer.nylas.com/docs/api/v3/ec... and to read actually read it you can use developer.nylas.com/docs/api/v3/ec... passing the folder name in the in parameter.

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Leonard Sangoroh

Hello @ashryan_io , I hope you are well. I am having a challenge when it comes wrapping my head around the authentication API. Any form of assistance would be much appreciated, thank you in advance.

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Ash Ryan Arnwine

Hi @leonardsangoroh, for sure!

Have you tried posting in our forums? Our Developer Advocates are there helping on weekdays.
forums.nylas.com

We also have a ton of sample code repos on GitHub, all of which use auth in some way:
github.com/nylas-samples

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Leonard Sangoroh

Thank you, let me go the forum platform!

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logarithmicspirals

Hi @ashryan_io, when are the winners going to be announced? The contest ended over a week ago.

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Jess Lee
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Ben Halpern

Good luck everyone

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Noah Brinker

Excited to see what everyone builds!

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Ava Nichols

Looks like fun

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Jess Lee

Good luck to everyone participating!

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Shweta Kale

I wanted to use Message tracking but docs mention that - tracking is available for Core and Plus plans.

Is there any way I can try building demo app using tracking?
@blag

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Alvaro (Blag) Tejada Galindo

Hi @shweta There's no way to use tracking on the free tier...however...I might be able to help you out 😉 send me an email to alvaro.t at nylas.com with the email you're using for your Nylas account...

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Shweta Kale

Done!! Thank you for your response🙏

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Karim Abdallah

Good luck y'all 🙌

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Fghj

This Nylas AI and Communications Challenge sounds like an exciting opportunity! With $3,000 in prizes and prompts that encourage both innovative and practical applications, it's a great way to showcase your skills. If you're considering entering, using Nylas APIs alongside tools like Google Gemini or Hugging Face could really elevate your project. Best of luck to everyone participating—can't wait to see the amazing submissions

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DevBen

Good lick guys

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the master Naruto come back on the day

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