Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude!

A Claude community workshop open to everyone.

Claude Community Build night

This is the first Claude Community Australia build night, and it works differently to our regular events.

No panel. No long demo. A short talk from a developer at MongoDB to set up the stack, and then the rest of the night is yours to build in.

Audience is limited to strictly 40 people for this format!

The format

You get a problem and a backend. You get the rest of the night to turn that into something that runs, and if you want it to, something that is live on the internet before you go home.

You will not get the problem in advance. That is deliberate. Going from a cold brief to a working thing is most of the actual skill in building with Claude Code, and you cannot practise it if you have had a week to plan. Everyone starts at the same line, at the same minute.

What we will tell you now: it is a real problem, the data is real, and the backend is MongoDB. Bring your judgement, not a head start.

Who this is for

People who already build with Claude Code. Not "I have heard of it". You have installed it, pointed it at a project, and got something working.

Read this bit properly. If you are earlier than that, apply anyway. You will learn a lot from being in the room. But go in with your eyes open. It moves fast, there is no beginner track, and nobody will be explaining the fundamentals from scratch. Parts of the night will be uncomfortable.

That is a fine trade if you know it is coming. If you would rather start gentler, come to one of our intro sessions and catch the next build night instead.

Seats are approved, not first come. Tell us honestly where you are at when you apply. We would rather put you in the right room than the next available one.

Bring

  • A Claude subscription, see below.

  • Your own laptop and charger. A personal machine if your work one is locked down. Not a tablet, not an iPad, not a Chromebook.

  • Claude Code, installed and signed in. Test it before you leave home, not in the lift. Claude Desktop is fine if that is genuinely your setup, but most people will want the CLI.

  • A MongoDB Atlas account, free tier. Created before you arrive. Waiting on a cluster to provision is a rubbish way to spend the first half hour.

  • Your usual setup. Editor, terminal, dotfiles, whatever makes you fast. This is not the night to try a new machine.

A word on your Claude plan

Max is what we recommend. Pro will get you through, but you will feel the ceiling somewhere in the back half of the night. The free tier will not be enough. If that is you, upgrade for the month or come to a different event, because running out of usage at 8pm is a miserable way to spend a build night.

What you leave with

  • Something you built in one sitting, from a brief you had never seen before

  • A working pattern for wiring Claude Code to a real database

  • Forty people who now know what you can do

On the night

  • 5:00pm Doors, food and drinks. Come early if you want a hand checking your setup.

  • 5:30pm Talk from MongoDB. Minmin Du, twenty minutes, then the brief.

  • 6:00pm Build. Facilitators circulating the whole time.

  • 8:00pm Demos. Three minutes each, from your own screen.

  • 8:30pm Wrap and close.

Co-hosted by Claude Community Australia and MongoDBPHOTOGRAPHY DISCLAIMER: We will have a photographer on site to take photos for our community event page, and social media coverage.