Lecture 13

Demo Day

Final presentations for Project - Final ProjectProject - Final Project
See also: Grading · Lecture 10

Brief

In teams of up to 3, take a product idea from concept to a working, deployed web application that a stranger could use — built primarily by directing ...
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Format

  • Each team: 7 minutes — live demo of the deployed product (no slides for the demo itself), followed by the story: problem, process, what broke, what you learned
  • 3 minutes Q&A from the class and guests
  • Audience votes on superlatives: Most Useful, Most Polished, Best Save (biggest recovery from disaster)

What I'm looking for

  • A working, deployed thing a stranger could use
  • Evidence you understood your stack — you can answer "where does this data live?" and "what happens when I click this?"
  • Honest process documentation, including AI prompts/logs and dead ends

After demos

  • Course retrospective: what the map of the stack looks like now vs week 1
  • Where to go from here — resources in CoursesCourses
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