**TLDR:** We rebuilt build.0g.ai from the ground up instead of patching the old hub. It now has Ask AI (a doc-grounded assistant on GLM-5.1 served through 0G Compute, answers come with citations), 4 stack pages, 16 SDKs and starter kits, 8 tools, 29 tutorials, and a showcase of 173 projects shipped across 10 events.

## What we shipped
build.0g.ai is the dev-facing entry point for building onchain AI on 0G, separate from the docs site. The headline is Ask AI: you ask a question inside the hub and get an answer pulled straight from 0G's documentation, with citations you can click through to the source. It runs on GLM-5.1 through 0G Compute, so the assistant is itself running on the inference layer it documents. Around it sit the 4 stack pages (Compute, Storage, Chain, Agentic ID on ERC-7857), the SDKs, the tools, the tutorials, and a showcase you can filter by category and event.

## What we tried first that did not work
For a while we just kept patching the original hub. A page here, a tool link there. The problem showed up in the showcase: the old 3-column grid fell apart once the project count crossed 100, and we are at 173 now. The page templates were never built for the surface area we kept adding, so the visual language drifted from page to page. Incremental tweaks were making it worse, not better, so we stopped patching and rebuilt the whole thing.

## What the trade-off is
- A full rebuild meant a chunk of time spent on the system itself (semantic color tokens, a no-flash light mode migration done in phases, a translate layer) instead of shipping new builder features in that window.
- Ask AI is doc-grounded, which is the point, but it is only as good as the docs behind it. It complements the docs site, it does not replace reading them.
- Internationalization is an English to Mandarin toggle in beta right now, not full coverage. More languages are not there yet.

## Open question for the sub
For a builder hub, is an in-page doc-grounded AI assistant actually worth it, or do you skip it and go straight to the docs or your IDE's AI? I am honestly unsure where the line sits between useful and just-another-chatbox, and how much better it would have to be to change your habit.

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Disclosure: I work on 0G. Mods know. Ask the hard things.

Full writeup: https://0g.ai/blog/0g-builder-hub-spotlight

[Builder] We rebuilt the 0G Builder Hub from scratch instead of patching it (173 projects, doc-grounded AI on 0G Compute). What we tried first that did not work.