This morning most of you had never deployed anything. Right now your team has a signed contract and a page on the internet with your names on it. That is the whole point of "make something people want": start small, but start real.
Standup: the rules, every day
60 seconds. Your live URL. Nothing else.
No slides, no explaining what it will do someday. Pull it up on the screen and show what it does right now. Tonight's question for every team: what's one thing that surprised you building Hello World today?
Standup · team by team
Your 60 seconds.
1:00 on the clock
1Pull up your live URL on the big screen.
2Say your thesis in one sentence, then answer today's question.
1:00
Next team when it hits zero
The room decides
Loudest applause picks the demo of the day.
After every team goes, clap for the one URL or one surprise that stuck with you most. The winning demo opens tomorrow's kickoff. Selection is always public, always earned, never assigned by us.
Journal
OFFLINE · screens closed
Three lines, alone.
3:00 on the clock
1Shipped: the one real thing you made today.
2Hardest: the moment that actually slowed you down.
3First tomorrow: the very first thing you'll do at 9:00.
3:00
Keep it, no one reads it but you
Tonight's homework
Tonight you interview the two easiest customers you will ever get. They live in your house.
Interview 2 family members about your problem. Tonight's script, four questions: walk me through the last time you had it · what did you do about it · have you tried anything else · if it vanished forever, what would you honestly do? Tomorrow morning you learn why these four work. No commute, no cold intro, and they already love you. Every future customer will be harder to reach than this one.
Destination
TEAM FOLDER
Bring quotes tomorrow. Not summaries, actual words they said.
Tomorrow · Day 2 · CUSTOMERS
“Talk to users.”
Tomorrow you leave the building. Five strangers, before lunch.
Go home
Your URL stays live all night. Let that sit with you.
Somewhere tonight, someone could open that link and see what you built. See you at 9:00. Bring the quotes.