Group photo, decks, tools, the gallery of what people built, and the RSVP for the next one. This page is the permanent home for Sharathon resources.
About 65 people signed up. Around 15 builders showed up to a coffee shop in Ocean Beach on a Saturday morning, pizza on the house from Blue Barn Creative, and built things side by side. No panels. No pitches. Just people sharing what they're working on.
We recorded the room. The real takeaways go here once we've been through the footage — straight from what people actually said and built, not from memory.
New venue, slightly later: 4:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Same format, still free. We're locking the date now — the first one hit its signup cap, so RSVP early once it opens.
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Five tracks. Not five subjects. Five altitudes of the same skill: learning how to learn while the tools keep moving. Each one runs the same shape: a twenty minute anchor demo, sixty-five minutes of paired build, five minutes of twist cards. Today's Sharathon ran three. The other two rotate in at the next round.
Build an algorithm that actually works for you. A fresh account, the right people to follow, and a way to train it so your feed feeds your work instead of eating your day.
Lucas walks his real phone screen, opens a fresh account live, and the room watches it tilt in a few minutes. Then you prune one of yours or start a clean one alongside a partner — there's a written guide to keep going at home (linked below).
Go through your feed — YouTube, X, Instagram, wherever — and pull the one thing you've been meaning to build but never got around to. This is the time. You've got the room and the support to finally do it.
Everyone surfaces a saved build. The room votes one up to do together, or you peel off and build your own — both work. Pick your harness and go. The point isn't the tutorial, it's finishing the thing you keep scrolling past.
See the harnesses side by side, same prompt. Pick the one that fits your hands. Ship something small before you leave.
Twenty minutes of honest head-to-head — paid frontier vs free framework vs local — then sixty-five minutes of paired build with a printed cheat sheet on the table.
The field leaders (Claude Code, Codex) run about $20/mo. Free paths: a lightweight framework like Hermes or pi agents — free to set up, you only pay variable API usage — or local models, free and plenty to learn on (just not as sharp as the frontier models).
Make a real 60 to 90 second trailer for a movie that does not exist, with people you just met, in 65 minutes. Walk out with the file, the prompts, and the cheap stack you used to get there.
Whoever's leading the table walks the room through one prior team's run, names the tool order (idea, script beats, images, shots, voiceover, music, cut), then groups of three to five run the same loop. End with everyone playing their cuts back to back. Format borrowed from Machine Cinema's GenJam.
Ship one real thing in one session — a landing page, an email flow, a folder organizer, even a calculator app. You learn the Claude Code fundamentals by shipping, not by studying. It's easier than people think.
Whoever's leading the table installs from scratch in front of the room and ships one small thing start to finish. Then everyone picks something small and does the same. Come back each week and we go a layer deeper — you leave able to hit the ground running on your own.
The field leaders (Claude Code, Codex) run about $20/mo. Free paths: Hermes or pi agents (free to set up, variable API usage), or a local model to experiment.
The full design lives in the Field Manual and on the tri-fold pamphlet at the door. See Section 03 below for the free-tier toolkit that powers each track.
Almost everything below either skips signup or runs on a free tier with no credit card. Two tracks (Pick Your Harness and Ship in a Day) lean on a paid frontier harness, but each has a free path — local models or a lightweight framework like Hermes or pi agents. The one paid pick we recommend outright is 1Password, because security is worth it.
100 compute units a day, refreshes automatically, novice-friendly canvas UI. Ideogram is the backup if you need readable text in the image.
125 one-time credits is about 25 seconds of Gen-4 Turbo. No single free video tool gives more than that, so plan four to six shots split across Runway, Pika, Kling, or Hailuo.
10,000 characters a month is enough for a 60 to 90 second trailer with plenty of redos. Voice quality is the biggest single wow moment in a trailer build.
50 credits a day is roughly 10 songs. Generate the score first and cut to it. Hans-Zimmer-by-default beats add-music-later.
A full pro editor, free, no watermark, no account required. Covers everything you need and then some — the most underrated tool in the kit. CapCut is the lighter option if it's already on your machine.
Cursor is the editor we recommend — free tier, AI built in, what you'll actually want in your hands. Host on Cloudflare Pages (free, unlimited bandwidth, commercial use OK) or Vercel. Keep VS Code around if you like it, but reach for Cursor.
Gemini Flash and Flash-Lite are free on the API with no card. A solid zero-cost path when you point a lightweight harness at it instead of paying for a frontier subscription.
Run a model locally with Ollama, or point a lightweight framework (Hermes, pi agents) at a free API key. Free to set up; you only pay variable API usage if you reach for a hosted model. Aider and Cline also work here as free options.
150 RSS feeds, 20 web feeds, 20 newsletter feeds, no card. The cleanest way to rebuild your information diet after Track 01 — your news, blogs, and reading sources in one place you control, instead of whatever an algorithm decides to show you.
The one we actually recommend — best in class, and a separate vault is the cheap security move once you run a dedicated dev account. Paid (about $3/mo after the trial), and worth it. We don't push a free alternative here on purpose.
One social account you want to prune, or one fresh account. That's it. 1Password on the side if you want to tighten up password and account hygiene at the same table.
Cursor, a GitHub account, and a Cloudflare Pages (or Vercel) account. If your build calls an LLM, a free Gemini API key covers it. Bring the one thing from your feed you've been meaning to make.
A frontier harness (Claude Code or Codex) at about $20 for the month — or the free path: Hermes or pi agents pointed at a free Gemini API key, or a local model via Ollama.
Krea for image, Runway plus Pika or Kling as backups for video, ElevenLabs for voice, Suno for music, DaVinci Resolve to cut (CapCut if it's already installed). None requires a card.
Cursor plus a frontier harness (Claude Code or Codex) at about $20 for the month, Node.js installed locally. Free path: Hermes or pi agents with a free Gemini API key, or a local model.
Free tiers shift monthly. If a signup page surprises you with new limits, mail lucas@sandiegoaistudio.com and we'll update the list.
Free one-pagers anyone can grab below. The deeper material — the full build, the working configs, the construction product end to end — is shared with people who come to an event or join the community.
Who I am, what I build, what's on the roadmap.
One-page read on AI tooling as of May 2026, from someone shipping every week.
One page. Eight steps to get from zero to your first agent.
The full arc of how the Claude Code system got built — screenshots, prompts, commits, from a 2024 Python book to the agent fleet running today.
The working configurations: directory layouts, agent prompts, hook scripts, the exact files. Copy what fits.
How the construction-vertical product works end to end — the deeper build walkthrough.
The seven-layer map of the whole system: gateway, memory, agents, surfaces, storage.
Come to a Sharathon or join the community and you get the full set. The deeper docs aren't posted publicly on purpose.
Email for anything substantive. Book a call for focused time. Socials for staying in orbit.
Two pre-filled email templates. One for things you were told you'd get; one for finding someone you met.
A doc, an intro, a link, an invite. Say what was promised and who said it. Response by tomorrow morning.
Describe what you remember. Their name, their project, where you saw them. Intro made if they're up for it.
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