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Track 06GDG Portland
marcuspark.dev
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Marcus Park
“I have a website. I texted my mom. She replied 'is this real?' I'm telling everyone she's wrong.”
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Track 06
My Corner
Name + bio + 3 things → a live URL you can text your mom.
✅ 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
Single page. Name, 2-line bio, 3 things you're proud of, one photo. Deploy to a real URL via Vercel/Netlify drag-and-drop. That's it.
The moment it clicks
“I have a website I can text my mom.”
Things to think about
While you build
- The hardest input is you. Use the Spec Talk to get unstuck — out loud, with the room. It's much easier to describe yourself when someone else is asking.
- Pick the photo before the bio. The photo sets the tone for everything else on the page.
- A live URL today beats a perfect site next week. Drag-and-drop deploy first; iterate on copy after.
- Resist adding a blog, a contact form, a guestbook. All polished version — every one is its own afternoon.
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.
- Custom domain
- Blog/log section
- Contact form
- Guestbook
- Seasonal/animated theme
- Links-tree mode
- AI-generated 'sounds like you' refinements
If you get stuck
Open one of these in the starter — safety nets, not requirements.
context/deploy-to-vercel.mdcontext/self-writing-prompts.md
From the community
Builds shipped from this track
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Track 06GDG Chicago
weiming.cool
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Wei Ming Tan
“Spec Talk question 5 saved me. I almost added a contact form, a blog, and dark mode in the first 10 minutes. The room laughed when I admitted it.”
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