Welcome to the inaugural Show Your Build Friday in the ~Construction_and_Engineering territory!
TikTok and Shorts showed the internet that physical trades and engineering are the ultimate form of proof-of-work.
Now we are bringing that to Stacker News backed by real sats.
Whether you are pouring concrete on a commercial site, running industrial conduit, wiring a subpanel, doing custom timber framing, or finishing a weekend DIY fabrication in your garage: show us what you built this week.
How to Enter
- Drop a photo or short clip of your work, project, or clean tool setup in the comments below.
- Add a quick technical breakdown: What materials or tools did you use? What code or structural hurdle did you have to solve?
- Have an attached Lightning wallet to receive the bounty zap directly.
The Bounty & Rules
- Prize: 5,000 sats to the top entry.
- Selection: The highest-effort / top-zapped build submitted before the cutoff wins.
- Cutoff: Sunday at 8:00 PM EST.
- Winner will be zapped directly and highlighted on Monday morning.
Let’s see that job-site proof-of-work! 🏗️⚡
5,000 sats paid
Show Your Build Friday #1 is officially wrapped! ⚡🏆
Congrats to @SimpleStacker for taking down the inaugural 5,000 sat bounty with the 20x20 Baja classroom build! Real manpower, roof sheeting, and manual roof-panel framing—true real-world proof-of-work.
Huge shoutout to the Montessori chair build and everyone who chimed in.
Show Your Build Friday #2 drops this Friday, September 18 at 8:30 AM EDT. Clean up those job sites and get your photos ready! 🔨⚡
Congratulations @SimpleStacker
An interesting challenge; it's a shame I can't participate right now.
Well, it's not much and it doesn't have a huge amount of power, but it was a fun moment with my son this week. It's a Montessori chair; it works as a table and a chair, and also for looking out the window and peeking, haha.
👀👀
Now that's what I call teamwork... hahahahaha
I don't know if it counts, since I was just a mere laborer, not the architect of the build or the foreman.
But I am quite proud of the work we did building a school classroom in Baja: #1521978
Mostly just 2 by 4s, hammers, nails, and a lot of manpower. No heavy machinery. Roof panels were lifted up by human hands and pivoted onto the center beam. Everything nailed down with hammers. Hardest part is the roof sheeting and hammering that in, because it's hard to find the studs. (Stud finders don't work well for some reason.) Side mural was done by a handful of high school girls on our team. The whole thing sits on a concrete slab that was laid for us beforehand. There are no interior walls so it's just an empty room, about 20ft x 20ft. Electrical was done by a local professional, not our team, he set up the wiring.
Amazing work
Cool
Just talked myself out of spending $600 on materials to build a shed but 5k sats changes the math...