Nightcap Trivia
An AI-hosted trivia game show for bars and restaurants.
Overview
Turn any TV in a venue into a live trivia night hosted by an AI with actual personality. Players join from their phones, the host reacts in real time, and the venue needs no staff and no equipment.
Nightcap replaces the traditional trivia-host economics — a person, a fee, a fixed night — with software that runs on hardware the venue already owns.
The host is the product. Question delivery, scoring banter, and round transitions are generated and voiced live, so the same question set plays differently every night instead of reading like a script.
Players join by phone with no app install. The venue screen and every player device stay in sync through a realtime channel, which is where most of the engineering effort went.
Where the effort went
The interesting part of Nightcap Trivia was never the page templates. It was setup required at just a tv, and getting the underlying model right so the product stays correct as it grows. That is the part we care about, and it is the part that determines whether something like this is still useful in a year.
It runs on infrastructure the owner controls — source in GitHub, deployment on Railway, DNS and CDN on Cloudflare — with no proprietary platform in the middle.