Pyaar Trivia

What it does

An open-source trivia hosting platform built for live pub quiz nights.

Features

• Full-screen presenter mode with keyboard navigation
• Real-time scoring grids
• AI-powered question generation via Claude
• Multiple quiz formats: progressive reveal, video rounds, picture rounds
• Used weekly at venues across Atlanta and Chicago for 3+ years

Stack

• Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind
• Anthropic SDK (Claude)
• Vercel Blob for media storage

Links

• Live: trivia.pyaarproject.org

In the wild

From weekly pub nights to private corporate events, here’s where Pyaar Trivia runs:

• Out of Pocket Health, Data Camp, a custom healthcare-data trivia built and hosted for Out of Pocket’s Data Camp.
• Dirty South Trivia, recurring weekly pub nights and venue partnerships across Atlanta.
• Venue residencies, live weekly at bars and breweries in Atlanta and Chicago for 3+ years.

Release notes

• Jun 2026 · Corporate events. First fully branded corporate deployment, Out of Pocket Health’s Data Camp, with custom question sets, full-screen presenter mode, and live team scoring.
• Private, branded games. Run a closed game for a company offsite, conference, or community night, your branding, your topics, hosted end to end.

Hosting the games

I've hosted live pub trivia for five years: three years in Chicago for Whaddayaknow and two in Atlanta for Dirty South Trivia. Pyaar Trivia is the platform I built to run those nights end to end.

• Original question sets across themed, general-knowledge, music, and pop-culture rounds, with comedic quips and answer reveals.
• Hosting groups of 30 to 80+ per night, including full A/V (mic, speakers, projection) and venue logistics.
• Attendance, round popularity, and feedback tracked to tune format, difficulty, and pacing for retention.
• Format: 4 to 5 themed rounds of 6 to 8 questions, with music, visual, and number specials, price-is-right tiebreakers, and team-based running scores.