About

What is 100Tiles?

100Tiles is a daily, collaborative fundraiser dressed up as a drawing grid. Every day at 10:00 AM Pacific a fresh 10×10 grid of 100 blank tiles appears. Anyone can anonymously claim a tile and draw on it — pencil, eraser, or text — while everyone else watches live.

What's different: when you claim a tile, you also name the U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit it's drawn for. A black strip at the bottom of every tile shows “For [non-profit name]”and links out to that organization.

If all 100 tiles are claimed before the day ends, the non-profit attached to the most-hearted tile wins a $1,000 donation — with Hamid’s approval (he reserves the right to refuse). Up to $100,000 will be donated this way in 2026. Every day is an independent fundraiser; whatever happens, the mosaic is archived forever and a new blank grid begins.

How donations are decided

• All 100 tiles must be claimed during the day for that day’s donation to trigger.
• The winning non-profit is the one attached to the tile with the most ❤️ at the 10 AM Pacific rollover.
• Non-profits must be 501(c)(3) U.S. tax-exempt organizations.
• Hamid (founder of 100Tiles) personally approves each donation and reserves the right to refuse one — e.g. if the organization isn’t actually a registered 501(c)(3), or if the tile is clearly off-topic or abusive.
• Every winner’s status (Pending, Approved, Check Issued, Check Cashed, Rejected) is published on the home page so the process stays transparent.

About the creator

100Tiles was built by Hamid Shojaee, a software entrepreneur based in the Phoenix area. Hamid has spent his career building developer tools and software companies — most notably Axosoft, where he led the team behind GitKraken — and has a long history of shipping things on the web.

Here’s the twist: even though Hamid is a software engineer by background, he didn’t actually write the code for 100Tiles. He built this entire site as a personal experiment in vibe coding — directing an AI assistant to design, implement, and deploy the whole thing while writing none of the code himself. From the real-time Socket.IO layer to the SQLite schema to this very About page, every line was produced by AI under his direction.

The mission grew out of that experiment: if AI is going to make shipping a small web app this easy, the result should do some good. 100Tiles is Hamid’s commitment of up to $100,000 in donations to U.S. non-profits in 2026 — chosen collectively, one day at a time, by whoever shows up to draw.