Hackathon In 6 days
November
Monday
19:00 2026 · Portland time
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Build Night: From a Teacher's Idea to an AI-Powered Printable Business
This month we're building something real, live, for a real person.
The brief. A local bilingual early-childhood teacher wants to turn years of classroom experience into printable Spanish/English curricula for children ages 1–5: weekly and monthly plans, plus ready-to-print activities for math, language, art, sensory play and motor skills. Teachers, childcare centers and families buy a download, print it and use it the same day. The plan: sell on Teachers Pay Teachers and Etsy, promote on Pinterest, and let AI help with ideas, organization and promotion without losing the teacher's own voice.
Tonight we build it together with Claude Code, starting from the teacher's written brief:
Along the way we'll answer the six questions in the brief, from "how do I keep my style?" to "can a system generate drafts by age, theme, skill and language?"
Why come if you're not a teacher? The pattern is the same one behind most useful AI products: AI drafts, a human approves, and the system packages and delivers. You'll see how to scope it, where AI helps, where it needs a human, and what it takes to make the output good enough to sell.
Bring your laptop if you want to build along, or just bring questions. Beginners and veterans welcome. ¡Hablantes de español bienvenidos!
⭐ Speaker Details Matt Duffield is President & CTO of Summit Software with 30+ years building enterprise software. A published author of six technical books and U.S. Navy veteran, he now focuses on AI-assisted development, local LLMs, and cloud-native architecture — and mentors the next generation of coders in his spare time.
🎪 Event Details Food, drinks, and conversation beginning at 7:00. The talk begins around 7:30. Parking is free at the Gladstone Park SDA church.
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