💻 >>hack day<< The Vibe-Off: Show & Tell Finale

Forget tutorials. Learn by doing. We’ll start with five minutes of vibecoding tips, then spend the morning building whatever your imagination (and AI) can handle.

🎉 Sunday, December 28 · 10am–1pm
Bring your project, your prompts, and your victory dance — it’s showtime.

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💭 What We’re Doing
This is the last meetup of the year: the grand finale of the Vibecoding series!

We’re wrapping up months of creative chaos, shipped projects, and wild experiments with one big, collaborative Show & Tell.

Everyone will get a few minutes to show what they’ve built (no pressure; messy projects are welcome).

We’ll celebrate what we’ve all learned, share favorite prompts, and talk about where vibecoding goes next.

Vibecoding = you describe what you want → AI builds the scaffolding → you guide it to greatness.

This time, we’re guiding it toward confetti, applause, and communal awe.

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🎙 Mini Talk: From Curiosity to Culture
Before demos begin, we’ll kick off with a quick talk on what this whole experiment has taught us — about creativity, iteration, and building in public.

Topics include:
1️⃣ Shipping as self-expression – Why done is always better than perfect.
2️⃣ Community as an accelerant – How building together multiplies energy.
3️⃣ Momentum mindset – Keeping creative habits alive past the new year.
4️⃣ The future of vibecoding – What’s next for 2026 and beyond.
Then it’s all demos, clapping, and joyful chaos.

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🎯 What You’ll Actually Do
• Spend two solid hours building literally whatever you want using those tips as your playbook.
• Present your project (2 minutes max — show what you built or learned).
• Share your favorite prompt or the weirdest bug you hit.
• Vote on fun awards like:
– Coolest Concept
– Weirdest Build
– Most Likely to Go Viral
– Biggest “Wait… it actually works?” Moment

Bonus: Bring something half-finished and we can form mini teams to help push it over the finish line before the day ends.

## 🛠️ Your New Superpowers (The Tools We'll Use)

For Mobile:

• Bolt.new + Expo – Text-to-app that actually works on phones
• Cursor – Your IDE but with an AI copilot who actually understands context
• Emergent – AI-powered mobile development platform
• Rork – Rapid mobile prototyping with AI assistance

For Web:

• **Vercel v0.dev** – Generates UI components you'd actually want to keep
• **Lovable.dev** – Chat your way to full-stack apps
• Replit Agent – For when you need an AI junior dev for longer tasks

Command Line tools:

• Claude Code – Agentic coding from your terminal with excellent guardrails
• Gemini CLI – Open-source terminal agent that actually understands your codebase
• GitHub Copilot CLI – Chat in terminal, ship PRs like a boss
• OpenAI Codex – Direct access to GPT models for coding workflows

OR copy/paste from Claude + ChatGPT – Sometimes the simplest solution is the best solution

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## 📅 The Plan

10:00–10:30 Speed Dating for Ideas
Pitch your tiny build in 30 seconds. Find your coding buddy. No idea? We have a hat full of them (including "Tinder for finding tennis partners" and "Which friend owes me money tracker").

10:30–12:30 The Build Sprint
Two full hours to build! Pick a track. Steal our prompts. Break things. Fix things. Ship something real. We'll be circulating with "oh wait, try this prompt" tips.

12:30–1:00 Victory Lap / Demos
Show your creation. Share your killer prompt. Drop your deploy link in the chat. Everyone will clap even if it's wonky.

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## 🎒 What to Bring

• Laptop + charger (mandatory)
• Headphones (for focus mode)
• One tiny idea (or steal one from our idea jar)
• Low expectations, high curiosity (perfect combo)

## 🤝 Who Should Come?

• Founders / aspiring founders who want to start working on that business idea
• Developers who want to 10x their building speed
• Designers who want to make their designs real
• Product people who want to test ideas instantly
• Complete beginners who think "deploy" is a military term (we'll teach you!)
• AI skeptics welcome – see what's actually possible vs hype

## 💡 You'll Leave With:

✅ A deployed thing you built (with a real URL!)
✅ 3-5 battle-tested prompts you can reuse forever
✅ Actual understanding of how people are shipping with AI today
✅ New friends who also think building stuff is fun
✅ The dangerous confidence to build your next idea

## ⚡ The Fine Print

Cost: Free (bring your own coffee / snacks)
Skill Level: "I can open a laptop" to "I deploy to prod on Fridays"
Mood: Collaborative chaos with good intentions

## 💌 Questions?

Drop us a line in a DM or in a comment down below
Join the conversation: #ai channel in Digital Nomads Slack

## 🌈 Code of Conduct

Build cool stuff. Help others build cool stuff. Don't be a jerk. That's it.