Halloween is creeping closer… and our spooky monsters are on the loose! 👻
To celebrate the spookiest season of the year, we’re challenging you to get creative with a little Halloween wordplay.
We want to hear your Monster Metaphor. Give us your own clever twist on what kind of monster best describes you, your work or anything alike! Are you a coding werewolf who thrives under the full moon of deadlines? Or a creative vampire who only comes alive after dark? 🧛♀️
Before you summon your own, check out our monsters below for a little spooky inspiration…
The Frankenstein’s Monster Site:
Patched together plugins and styles that don’t work well together.
The Ghost Traffic:
Fake visitors and bots haunting your analytics.
The Jekyll & Hyde Site:
Calm and friendly with light traffic, but when the crowd shows up, it turns chaotic, unstable and ready to wreak havoc.
The Vampire Script:
Drains your site’s performance by sucking resources, leaving nothing left.
Drop your monster metaphor in the comments below for a chance to win a hauntingly good stash of Halloween treats from Hotel Chocolat — plus some exclusive 20i merch.
Let your imagination run wild and unleash your inner monster! 🎃
T&Cs: Competition deadline 31/10/25. Hamper available to UK based entries only.
Social media sirens. They lure you in with promises of fun and interesting content. Then suddenly you’re drawn to the dark side. You find yourself doomscrolling and clicking on dodgy links. You’re drawn onto the ranting rocks, where trolls and bots lurk. Time to stick your fingers in yours ears and sing la, la, la.
This monster is inspired by my least favourite website builder 😉
The Wix Witch
It casts spells of simplicity and ease, but as soon as you need a feature slightly outside the template, the broomstick snaps in two!
Congratulations! You’re a runner-up in our recent Halloween competition, your monster metaphor was fantastic! 👻
We’re delighted to send you £100 in account credit. Please reply with your full name and the email address linked to your 20i account so we can get this sorted for you.
Thanks for taking part!
Best,
The 20i Team
I’m the friendly cashier ghost I float around helping customers with their boo-tiful outfit purchases.
The Fridge Monster –
In the dead of the dark I seek out my prey
I always get my wicked way
I creep and slither then silently glide
A creaking door invites me inside
Voraciously I gnaw and bite
I will return for more victims the following night…
The Meeting Mummy:
Wrapped up all week, occasionally unravels on Fridays
I’m a Classroom Witch by day and a Zombie Teacher by night — casting spells of learning with my magic wand, then surviving the after-school marking apocalypse fuelled only by caffeine and sheer willpower!
The Daydreaming Ghost 👻 – floating between chores and ideas, but disappears whenever real work appears… poof!
Congratulations! You’re a runner-up in our recent Halloween competition, your monster metaphor was fantastic! 👻
We’re delighted to send you £100 in account credit. Please reply with your full name and the email address linked to your 20i account so we can get this sorted for you.
Thanks for taking part!
Best,
The 20i Team
I’m the Property Phantom — I make homes disappear from the market faster than you can say boo!
I am a caffeine bat! Upside down until the first coffee hits, then soaring through tasks like it’s a midnight flight! That’s until I need another fix haha
I’m definitely the Grammar Ghoul! As an English tutor, I haunt classrooms with a mission to banish bad grammar and slay sloppy syntax.
At work I am the Loch Ness Monster, calm at still waters to look at, but with an eerie sense that there could be a monster lurking under.
By evening I transform into the basilisk, silently and deftly slithering my way around Lego pieces and army men that can cut your feet to shreds,
known for the ability to kill with a single, withering glare when needed
i am the Guardian of the Endless Aisles, walking the floor and supervising my minions
The chocolate chunk on the loose!
The Floor Reaper – Every floor tile clicks like a coffin lid, my work is burial not beauy. The grout crawls like veins and the floor grows a new skin
Munching Mummy – leaving bite marks on the family’s Halloween chocolate to claim the tastiest treats as my own!
Nightfang Giggledoo – Mostly about during the night and the very early hours – creepy & quiet on a mission to do battle with search engines and emails – easy to fuel with coffee and dark chocolate
The night was a black cat — sleek, silent, and full of bad luck
Frankenstein-Justintime deadline chaser
Congratulations! You’re a runner-up in our recent Halloween competition, your monster metaphor was fantastic! 👻
We’re delighted to send you £100 in account credit. Please reply with your full name and the email address linked to your 20i account so we can get this sorted for you.
Thanks for taking part!
Best,
The 20i Team
I’m a multitasking mummy — wrapped up in projects, juggling tasks that refuse to stay buried. Just when I think I’ve finally unravelled my to-do list, another bandage of ideas pulls me back in!
I’m the Headless Horseman of Hustle — charging fearlessly into new challenges, head held high… somewhere
I’m Gruesome Granny 2.0. I’ve had a firmware update, and I’m worse than ever.
I’m the Web Wraith of 2Oi.
Born in caffeine and midnight code, I haunt empty domains and stitch them into sites that breathe. Code flows through me like ectoplasm—slippery, strange, impossible to contain. Layouts slash sharp, taglines cling like cobwebs, and every project feeds the creature.
2Oi isn’t just hosting—it’s my lair.
And once your site enters, it never sleeps again.
The Deadline Demon 👹⏰
Summoned by tight turnarounds and last-minute mayhem, I feed on chaos and drink triple shot lattes like potions. My focus sharpens as the clock ticks louder the more frantic the vibe, the more powerful I become. Adventure? I chase it like a bat out of deadline hell!
The Shadow,creeping up behind you, I will be persistent, following you in every step, you will never catch me, I will hunt you down…silently, mimicking your every move, I will be watching you until the sun goes down.
I’m a hyper focused Harpy, because when I sink my talons into something I don’t stop until it’s finished!
Dark Destroyer, like my favourite chocolate, I look smooth and gorgeous but wait, it takes just one bite and I’ll totally consume you.
I’m a Hyper focused Harpy, because when I sinky my talons into a task I don’t let go until it’s done!
I’m the Itinerary Imp. ✨
Small but mighty, I’m a mischievous little planner with perfectly tabbed notebooks in one pocket and spontaneous detours in the other. I map my missions with care, then gleefully ignore the route when a curious path catches my eye…
I’m a spreadsheet sorceress, my formula are like spells, weaving my magic touch to the generate reports.
Ghostface Chatbot: Saying “Whaaaaaaatz up” to those unwanted bots.
The Lady of the Lake’s website creator: Drowning all unnecessary code and helping you to a calm and peaceful existence.
The Addams Family tree:
A bunch of hopeless plug ins and add on that would never work together, but somehow seamlessly fit!
The Final Destination Bug
You think the build is green and gold, No errors new, no stories told. But lurking still, by sheerest spite, Is the Final Destination Bug’s own blight.
It doesn’t crash on bad code line, But by a cruel, absurd design. A stray comma, then a flicker, A user clicks a bit too quicker.
The flaw itself? You can’t discern, A single Bug that you can’t burn. Instead, a chain reaction starts, Like falling dominoes on carts.
The payment logic fails to send, Because a CSS float won’t mend. It finds a weird, indirect path to harm, Ignoring fixes with a cold alarm.
So when your stable system bends, Remember Death’s design transcends. It’s the Metaphor that rings so true: The Final Destination Bug is coming for you.
Deadline Demon
Deadline Demon – I thrive in the dead of night, delivering delightful websites just in time.
My last one didn’t show up so I’ll try another:
I just inherited the Amityville Horror Project – the previous team left due to unknown terrors, the basement (database) is full of dark secrets, and the house (site) is bleeding users.
The Zombie Blog: hasn’t had a new post in 3 years but refuses to die.
The Feature Creep Gremlin: We have to strictly control the Feature Creep Gremlin—if we feed it one extra request after midnight, it multiplies into dozens of scope changes blowing the project out if the water.
Congratulations! You’re a runner-up in our recent Halloween competition, your monster metaphor was fantastic! 👻
We’re delighted to send you £100 in account credit. Please reply with your full name and the email address linked to your 20i account so we can get this sorted for you.
Thanks for taking part!
Best,
The 20i Team
I’m the Gremlin of Midnight Media.
Fed after dark and wired with AuADHD, I multiply ideas like mogwai in a rainstorm. One moment I’m coding AI bots with eerie precision, the next I’m conjuring brand identities that haunt your competitors’ dreams. Websites? Designed before dawn. Client briefs? Possessed and polished by moonlight.
I don’t sleep, I spawn.
Each new project is a shiny distraction, a cursed artefact I must touch, tweak and transform. Whether it’s a spectral side hustle or a client’s cryptic request, I dive in claws-first. My brain’s a haunted house of half-finished genius and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Midnight Media isn’t just a name — it’s my witching hour.
That’s when the Gremlin thrives.
Congratulations! You’re a runner-up in our recent Halloween competition, your monster metaphor was fantastic! 👻
We’re delighted to send you £100 in account credit. Please reply with your full name and the email address linked to your 20i account so we can get this sorted for you.
Thanks for taking part!
Best,
The 20i Team
There’s no tricks with 20i, in fact it’s a treat to host with them. Never a scare with server death. Quite spooky in fact the uptime is so good 😉
How about the Horrifyingly Haunted HTML Wizard… I’m a mild-mannered web designer trying to charm clients with CSS magic spells and enchanting designs to satisfy their monstrous appetite for “just one more revision!” Booo!
Hi Phil – congratulations! You’re the winner of our recent Halloween competition, we absolutely loved your monster metaphor! 🧟♂️
We’re thrilled to send you your wickedly sweet hamper along with £100 account credit.
Please email anna.brealey@20i.com with the following details so we can get your prizes to you:
Your full name and UK home address
The email address linked to your 20i account
Thanks for taking part!
Best,
The 20i Team