TRIVIA1.COM
A Free, Browser-Based Multiplayer Trivia Platform — With an AI Question Factory and an Agent-Controllable Game Engine
The Challenge
Running a pub-quiz night usually means dedicated hardware, an app everyone has to download, or a host tethered to a laptop reading questions aloud. The brief was to make any screen the board and any phone the buzzer: a host opens a game on the venue TV, players scan a QR code and are in — no app, no account, no friction. Beyond hosted nights, the platform also had to run an always-on public game that plays itself, generate fresh questions on any topic on demand, and — the ambitious part — be controllable by an AI agent end to end.
The Solution
Trivia1 is a Laravel platform where every game gets a six-character code and a QR poster; players join in the browser and answer on their phones while a host dashboard drives the rounds. Real-time state is handled by lightweight HTTP polling rather than websockets, which keeps it dead-simple to host anywhere. A host-less clock daemon runs "Trivia Royale," an always-on public elimination game kept lively by bot personas. Questions — or entire reusable banks — are generated through a four-provider AI fallback chain (Groq to Gemini to OpenAI to Anthropic) so generation stays cheap and never stalls on one provider being down. And the whole thing exposes its own MCP server, so an AI agent like Claude can build and run a complete game over roughly forty-four tools.
QR Instant Join
Players join in-browser, no app
Trivia Royale
Always-on public elimination game
AI Question Banks
Generate questions on any topic
MCP Agent Control
AI agents build & run games
Build Process
Core Game Engine
Built the host dashboard, player client, rounds/teams/timed questions, six-character codes and QR join, with polling-based real-time state that hosts anywhere.
Game Modes & Public Play
Added Classic, Royale and Infinite modes, plus the always-on public Trivia Royale driven by a host-less clock daemon and bot personas.
AI Question Factory
Implemented the four-provider AI fallback chain to generate questions and reusable topic banks, with a token/credit economy for pay-per-use generation.
MCP, Billing & Launch
Shipped the MCP server (~44 tools) for agent control, Stripe billing and Connect payouts for venue revenue-share, and deployed to production.
Tech Stack
The technologies and services powering TRIVIA1.COM.
Results & Impact
Players join any game by QR in the browser — no app to install and no account required
Three host modes (Classic, Royale, Infinite) plus an always-on public game that runs itself
AI question generation across a four-provider fallback chain — questions or whole reusable banks on any topic
Exposes its own MCP server with ~44 tools, so an AI agent can build and run a complete game
Venue revenue-share built in via Stripe Connect payouts, with an AI-credit and play-credit token economy
10 built-in question categories, QR posters, and a daily-trivia content surface for SEO
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