Creator Platform "miraipage" Adopted as Development Environment for Experiential DX Contest "DigiTech Quest"
機械翻訳 / Machine-translated
伊東雄歩
2026年7月24日・13分で読める
For Members of the Press / July 24, 2026 / Walker Inc.
Brainstorm ideas with multiple AIs, then implement through a coding agent — student teams complete their entire development journey within a salon.
"miraipage," a content posting platform operated by Walker Inc. (Headquartered in Bunkyo, Tokyo; Representative Director: Yuho Ito), has been adopted as the development environment for "DigiTech Quest," an experiential DX contest in which students and companies tackle real-world DX challenges together. Participating student teams can refine their ideas by conversing with multiple AIs within miraipage's online salon, and then proceed all the way to implementation via a coding agent residing in the salon. The platform will be used starting with the event held in Gifu from August 8 to 29, 2026.
Until now, miraipage has been a predominantly online platform for sharing articles, novels, manga, slides, and more. This adoption represents a case in which its features are used in educational and human-development settings as a "development environment where teams can think and build together."
When students tackle DX challenges as a team over the course of several weeks, there are two major obstacles.
The first is having no one to bounce ideas off of. The second is the implementation barrier — turning a finalized idea into something that actually works. In most cases, these two challenges are addressed in separate places with separate tools, and time and momentum are lost in the gap between "thinking" and "building."
miraipage connects these two within a single salon. DigiTech Quest adopted this as its development environment for participating teams.
Teams converse with multiple AIs in the salon chat to sharpen their understanding of the challenge and develop their solution ideas. By cross-referencing the perspectives of different AIs, teams can shed assumptions and strengthen their proposals. Angles that would never emerge from human-only discussion are added on the spot.
Once an idea is solidified, it is handed off to the residing in the salon, which proceeds directly to implementation (code generation and prototyping). The entire journey from "thinking" to "making it work" is connected within the same chat. There is no need to set up a separate development environment.
Mentors and company representatives also join the same salon, where they can consult on works-in-progress — code, conversations, and all. Every exchange from idea to implementation is preserved chronologically in the salon, forming the foundation for presentations and retrospectives.
The first event to introduce this system is the 3rd tournament, hosted by Gifu University and sponsored by NTT DOCOMO, INC., running from August 8 to 29, 2026. Teams of high school and university students (4–6 members) take on real-world DX challenges presented by companies over approximately three weeks, competing on originality, problem-solving ability, feasibility, design, and presentation. The 1st tournament (2024) attracted more than 50 student participants.
miraipage plans to expand this style of use in educational and human-development settings to other educational programs, corporate training sessions, and hackathons. Inquiries are welcome from contest organizers, educational institutions, and corporate training coordinators.
"What we want students to gain from a DX contest is not proficiency with tools, but the experience of 'thinking alongside AI and turning ideas into something tangible right then and there.' In practice, however, the space for refining ideas and the space for implementation have always been separate. If students can bounce ideas off multiple AIs to sharpen their thinking and then bring those ideas to life with a coding agent right away, they can stay focused on 'what to build.' The decision-making remains with the humans, all the way through. We wanted miraipage to be used as a way to maximize that time."
"For a team to deliver results in a short timeframe, it helps enormously to have the space for thinking and the space for building united in one place. Engaging with multiple AIs to sharpen your thinking, then proceeding straight to implementation — what won us over was the way the contest naturally gives students the experience of truly 'mastering AI.'"
miraipage ( https://www.miraipage.net ) is a creator platform for the AI era, where users can post and sell a wide variety of content including articles, novels, manga, slides, and 3D/AR. Its online salon feature organizes conversations into topic-based threads, and salon administrators can configure salons to host AI assistants and coding agents as permanent residents. Users can carry out everything from conversations with multiple AIs to code generation and prototyping — all within a single chat. A dedicated iOS app, "MirAIPage salon," is also available. Developed and operated by Walker Inc.
DigiTech Quest ( https://www.digitech.quest ) is an experiential DX contest in which students and companies take on real-world DX challenges together. Over an approximately five-week program, teams plan and prototype solutions to company challenges and compete in a final presentation. Hosted by Gifu University and sponsored by NTT DOCOMO, INC. Since its inaugural event in 2024, the contest has continued to grow.
For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact the Walker Inc. miraipage PR representative at news@miraipage.net.
※ Output from generative AI varies depending on input. No specific outcomes are guaranteed.
※ AI assistant / coding agent residency is enabled through settings configured by the salon administrator.
