Five days. You find a real problem, build a real product with AI, put a price on it, and pitch it live on stage. Everything you need lives on this page.
Start here · for students
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Bookmark this page. The whole week lives here: every day, every session, every deck.
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Bring a laptop + charger. That is genuinely all. Accounts and tools are handed out at check-in on Day 1.
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Doors 9:00, pickup 17:00. Lunch break 12:15 to 13:15 every day.
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No experience needed. Everything is taught from zero. Come with problems that annoy you; leave with a company.
Shorter. Three options. As a table. You ignored X. Confused chat? Start fresh with the spec.
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Verify in 30 seconds
Ask for sources. A name and date that search to nothing = caught it lying.
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Never paste secrets
Passwords, ID numbers, addresses, other people's private info: never.
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Talk, don't type
Voice input: ramble your context, it sorts you out.
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Ask me questions first
Before answering, ask me 3 questions that would improve your answer.
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Show an example
Here is one I like. Match this style.
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Three options with tradeoffs
Never accept the first answer as the only answer.
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Tutor mode
Explain why, step by step, then quiz me.
The prompts · tap to copy
Day 1AI Foundations
Attack my thinking. Here is my plan: [X]. Do not tell me what is good about it. Find the three weakest assumptions, say what evidence would prove each one wrong, and rate how likely each is to survive contact with a real customer.
Day 1Brainstorming problems
Here is my claimed problem: [X]. Evaluate it like a tough startup mentor. 1) Attack the weakest part. 2) Who already solves this, which one is strongest, and why has it not killed the problem? 3) Role-play the person who actually has this problem for three exchanges. 4) Then give me a sharper version of the problem in one sentence.
Day 1Co-founder dating
Here is our 5-line team contract. Play out three realistic conflict scenarios for a student startup team this week (disagreement on scope, one member overloaded, deadline pressure at 4pm) and show where our contract breaks. Suggest one fix per hole.
Day 1Meet your coding agent
Give me 10 different ways a [your person] could solve [your problem], from boring to wild. For each, one line on what the simplest version looks like. Then tell me which one a beginner team could build a first version of in four days, and what its ONE first feature should be.
Day 1The starter prompt
We are building [product name] for [your person] who [your problem]. Build the first version of the main screen: what the user sees when they arrive, and the one thing they can do. Keep it simple and clean.
Day 1The feature storm + three tests
Here is my product: [one sentence]. Brainstorm 15 features it could have. Mark which 3 are CORE (the product is pointless without them) and which are nice-to-have. For each core feature: what the user sees and what they can do.
Day 1The screen sentence
When the user arrives they SEE [ ], they can DO [ ], and they GET [ ]. Build exactly that.
Day 1The design pass
Apply a liquid glass design: frosted panels, soft shadows, rounded corners. (Or: Make it look like [a site you love]: same feel, my content. Or: Dark, minimal, big type, like a modern startup site.)
Day 1The iterate move
I expected [X], it does [Y].
Day 2Run like a company: kanban + ship it live
Here is our product and our team: [names and roles]. Today we have these blocks of work time: [times]. Split the next features, the design pass, and interview prep into tasks, one owner each, so nobody is ever waiting on someone else. Flag the riskiest task.
Day 2Design systems with AI
My product: [thesis]. My user: [person]. Generate 3 genuinely different visual directions: font pairing, 5-color palette (1 accent + 4 neutrals), and the feeling each gives. Then, for the direction I pick, write the instruction I should give my coding agent to apply it across the whole app.
Day 2The interview masterclass
Role-play a customer for my problem interview. Be realistic: polite, a bit evasive, occasionally lying to be nice, like a real adult talking to a student. After the interview, score me: which of my questions were leading? Where did I pitch instead of listen? What did I fail to follow up on? Problem area: [X].
Day 2The Vercel folder fix
My project folder needs to be a simple static site I can deploy by dragging it into Vercel. Check my files: is there an index.html at the top level? If not, restructure it so there is, without changing what the app does.
Day 3Name it, mark it: names + logos
My product: [thesis]. Give me 20 name candidates in four styles: descriptive, invented word, metaphor, and two-word combo. For each: say it in a sentence, then score it against these tests: easy to say on the phone, easy to spell after hearing it once, cannot be mocked by a 13-year-old, and unlikely to collide with a famous brand. Rank the top 5 with one-line reasons.
Day 3Agent Mastery
I expected [X exactly]. It currently does [Y exactly]. The difference matters because [user impact]. Fix the gap without changing anything else that works.
Day 3Your front door: the landing page
Build a landing page for my product as the home page. Product name: [your new name]. Headline: [your thesis, said to the buyer]. Under it: one line on what it does, this real user quote: [strongest quote], our new logo at the top, and a big button that opens the app. Simple, clean, matches our design system.
Day 3The pitch deck: story, market, competitors, price
Here are our artifacts: product name [X], thesis [X], verdict [X], strongest quote [X], features live [list], what we learned [one line]. Draft my 5-slide pitch deck: for each slide give a headline of 6 words or fewer and one supporting line. Slides: problem, person + quote, demo, what works, the ask.
Day 3Price it: monetization for v1
My product: [thesis]. My person: [who]. Interviews said the pain is worth about [what you heard]. Propose 3 price points with a simple model each (one-time, per-use, or monthly), say which one a Chinese high school family would actually pay this week, and write the one-sentence ask I say out loud when I ask for the money.
Day 3Multimedia AI: voice, image, video, music
Write prompts for a 15-second launch clip for my product: [thesis]. Give me: a shot list of 3 shots with camera movement, a one-sentence video-generation prompt per shot in a cinematic style, a 20-word voiceover script reading naturally, and a one-line music brief. Match this mood: [your design system adjective].
Day 4The product loop
Here are observation notes from users trying my product. Cluster the confusions into patterns, rank them by how much they block the core action, and give me a fix list of at most 5 items. Then tell me: does this evidence say persevere, zoom in on one feature, or pivot?
Day 4The launch video
Here is my product: [one-liner], my strongest user quote, my screenshots and my price. 1) Write a 30-second launch video script with a shot list. 2) For each shot, write the exact prompt I should give an AI video tool. 3) Write the music brief for Suno (genre, mood, tempo) and the voiceover script for ElevenLabs with tone directions.
The finale
Showcase day. Parents, come watch.
On the final afternoon every team pitches a live product on stage to a judging panel, and one team takes the prize. Doors open mid-afternoon on Day 5.
BringA laptop and charger. Everything else is covered.
MiddayLunch break 12:15 to 13:15 daily; details at check-in.
ExperienceNone needed. Tools are taught from zero.
EveningsOptional founder sessions on Zoom, from home.