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Track 03GDG Boston
Family Almanac
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Olivia Carter
“My grandmother's birthday landed on a Sunday this year. The AI wrote 'maybe call her early.' I cried a little.”
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Track 03
Year in Poetry
Tell AI your meaningful dates → a year calendar you can read like a poem.
✅ Drop-in friendly2-hour jamShips in 45 min
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The demo
What it looks like when it’s working
In the room · 45 minutes
What you’ll build
During the Spec Talk, the participant tells AI the meaningful dates in their life — birthdays, anniversaries, the day they got their dog. AI generates a beautifully designed, scrollable year calendar with a short AI-written warm note for each date ('Grandma's birthday — call her' / 'One year since you and Sam').
The moment it clicks
“My whole year, laid out like a poem.”
Things to think about
While you build
- Decide who's looking at this — a quiet you-only calendar looks completely different from one printed for the family fridge. The audience drives every visual choice.
- Hardcode your dates from the Spec Talk into the build. Don't construct a date editor today; that's the polished version.
- Keep the AI's tone consistent across notes. 'Grandma's birthday — call her' should match the energy of every other line.
- Static display. No login, no database, no Google Calendar sync. The constraint is what makes it ship.
The 2-hour Jam rhythm
How the night flows
Every Coding Jam follows the same five-phase shape. Talking is short, building is long.
- 0:00 – 0:05Intro
Welcome, name tags, snacks within reach. The facilitator sets the tone: low pressure, high creativity, ship something messy.
- 0:05 – 0:15The Demo
Facilitator demos the polished version of tonight's project. Live or pre-recorded. The message: this is what's possible.
- 0:15 – 0:25Spec Talk
Walk the 5 questions on the projector. The output is a one-page PRD that Antigravity will turn into UI + engineering docs.
- 0:25 – 1:30Build (codelab)
Participants run the codelab. Antigravity writes the code; they direct it. Six phases inside this hour: Setup → Plan → Review → Build → API → Verify. Fix the doc, not the code.
- 1:30 – 2:00Sharing
Three volunteer screen-shares. Celebrate the messy, brilliant, half-finished prototypes. Quick wrap-up. Tease the next jam.
Polished version pulls in
Where to take it after the jam
The 45-minute build is the win in the room. These are the ideas you can pull in over the next week — your homework isn’t homework, it’s the polished version.
- Login + edit-your-own-dates flow
- Google Calendar sync
- Birthday reminder notifications
- Family-shared edition
- Monthly reflection poem
- Photo-per-date upload
- Audio bed (ambient soundscape)
If you get stuck
Open one of these in the starter — safety nets, not requirements.
context/calendar-layout.mdcontext/personal-data-from-spectalk.md
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