Ship Week

One lab. One week. One demo day.

A weekly cadence where the community picks a lab, ships it, and demos what they built.


// How It Works

Monday
Lab Announced

Community votes or maintainer picks the lab for the week. Get your environment ready and read the requirements.

Tue-Fri
Ship Mode

Build, break things, fix them, and document everything. Share progress in Discord. Help others when stuck.

Sunday
Demo Day

2-minute demos in Discord voice. Show what you built, what broke, and how you fixed it. No slides needed—just your terminal and repo.


// Demo Format (2 minutes)

Keep it real. Keep it short. We want to see what you shipped.

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What I built

Quick walkthrough of your implementation

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Biggest tradeoff

The decision that mattered most

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What broke

The gnarliest bug or blocker you hit

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How I fixed it

Your solution or workaround

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What I'd do next

If you had more time, what would you improve?


// Ship Requirements

To get credit for shipping, you need these artifacts:

required

Repo Link

Public GitHub repo with your code

required

Demo or Screenshots

Proof that it actually works

required

Write-up

README with tradeoffs, what broke, and the fix

required

2 Resume Bullets

How you'd describe this on your resume


// Why Ship Week?

accountability

Weekly deadline keeps you shipping, not just learning

community

Learn from others' solutions and debugging approaches

portfolio

Build 52 real projects a year with receipts

skills

Practice explaining technical decisions under time pressure

Ready to ship?
discord.join()