Anyone who wants to build things with AI.
The Sharathon is a show-and-tell for anyone at any level. Walk through what you made, or just sit in and listen. Showing is optional, from the mic to turning your laptop around at the table.
The Sharathon →About · San Diego AI Studio
Show up. Build. Share.
A San Diego community of people building with AI. Show what you're working on, see what others made, and get help shipping it.
- Monthly
- Sharathons
- Weekly
- calendar of other meetups
- Every
- recording handed back
What it is
A room, a calendar, and the footage.
San Diego AI Studio is San Diego's AI builder community. Once a month there is a Sharathon: one long table, laptops open, people showing each other what they built, why they built it, and how. Two have happened so far: the first in Ocean Beach on May 16, fifteen people at one long table, and the second at Brew Coffee Spot in La Mesa on August 23, where thirteen builders demoed.
Between events, the studio keeps a live calendar of the AI meetups happening across the whole city, and Discord is where the work happens between Sharathons. People drop projects mid-build, ask the question they don't want to post on X, and help each other ship.
Everything gets recorded on purpose and handed back to the people who showed up. Rewatch it. Feed it to your agents. Start your own meetup. Turn it into something we did not expect.
Who it's for
Non-technical to mega-nerd.
People using AI at work and keeping quiet about it.
Most people using AI at work are doing it on personal accounts. Lights On is where you show the workflow and keep the credit.
Lights On →Small business owners.
The Leverage Map takes three taps: how you work with AI today, which job eats your week, and where you sit on that line. You leave with one move.
The Map →The founder
Built by Lucas Cooper-Bey.
Founder · Convener · Builder
Lucas is a builder in San Diego. When building got fast enough that his ideas stopped dying in notebooks, he wanted people to build beside. So he started San Diego AI Studio.
The Sharathon is where it began: fifteen people at one long table in Ocean Beach, four hours, free, and everyone went home with the footage. The studio grew out from there into a live calendar of the AI events happening across the whole city, the recordings and the work published as they get made, and time with San Diego businesses on the parts of their week that leak hours.
All of it points at one thing: getting good at making stuff, so the ideas people carry around start existing. The tools that used to be reserved for the privileged and the lucky are here now, and the people who get good at them get a say in what comes next. Lucas would like that to be as many of us as possible.
What we believe
Done killing ideas in notebooks.
Ideas die in notebooks. You'd have a spark, write it down, maybe sketch it, and then it would sit there, buried in its final resting place till the end of time, because the time would never come that you'd have extra time to work on that one great idea.
Well, that's done.
AI just gave us the leverage we've never had before to get between idea having and actually doing. We jot stuff down and it can immediately influence a build.
idea having→idea actuating
- Everyone's new at this.
Non-technical to mega-nerd, all of us figuring out the firehose at the same time. Everything's getting easier for everyone, and it's more important than ever to pick each other up and make stuff together. Helping each other increase agency through the ever-releasing wave of tools and opportunities. Like Anthropic, where Boris and his team play with cool stuff, see what sticks, and ship. That's us.
- Compounding beats novelty.
Every Sharathon, every event we do, is a recursive agent that makes the next one better. Everything we build makes building the next thing easier.
- Every meetup teaches the next one how to get better.
We record footage and audio from our meetups, then share the raw material back with the room. Every conversation, build, and show-and-tell becomes context for what comes next. The meetup itself becomes a human-in-the-loop recursive agent.
The programs
One active gathering. Four on the way.
- SharathonMonthly
Show-and-tell for anyone at any level.
A show-and-tell for anyone who wants to build things with AI. Walk through what you made, or just sit in and listen. Showing is optional, from the mic to turning your laptop around at the table. All levels welcome.
Active - Build Club + Harness NightWeekly
Build the thing. Sharpen the machine.
Work shoulder-to-shoulder on real apps, then share the stacks, agents, skills, and infrastructure making the work faster.
Coming soon - AI in BusinessWeekly
Put AI to work on real operations.
Founders, operators, and teams working through practical AI systems for sales, marketing, finance, and the day-to-day work of running a business.
Coming soon - AI Vid VibeWeekly
World-build, render, vibe.
World building, 3D design, game design, video generation, and experiments with the Reachy Mini robot and Bigscreen Beyond VR headsets. Bring your weirdest idea and make it move.
Coming soon - HackathonsQuarterly
Big tent. All hands.
A full-room build when there is something worth shipping together. Sponsored, open invite, and built for every skill level.
Coming soon
Sharathon 02 happened August 23 at Brew Coffee Spot. 13 builders demoed. Next date coming.
How to get involved
Six doors. Take whichever one is closest.
Join the Discord →Where the work happens between Sharathons, and where the next date gets announced first. Free. Always on.Come to a Sharathon →Monthly. Bring what you are building, or the idea you have not started. Showing is optional.Help out →Volunteer roles with a written scope, a time box, and an end. Credit by name and a seat at the front.Post your harness →Grade your own AI system on the twelve dimensions and put the scorecard on the Harness Ledger next to everyone else's.List your meetup →Hosting an AI thing in San Diego? It goes on the weekly calendar of other meetups.Pick a time together →The studio's scheduling link. Same one the homepage footer points to.
Next Sharathon date is TBA.
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