San Diego · 2026

Where ideas
go to live.

San Diego's AI builder community. Show up. Build. Share.

Free. Open. Recorded. You leave with everything.

A manifesto

We're done with 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.

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What we believe
  • 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.

What we host

Sharathon

Monthly · Free

Show up, build, share.

Builders get together, share what we've been shipping, what's working in our harnesses, how others are building, what's making life better. Then we team up on a project. Show and tell at the end.

Next: May 16 · Ocean Beach →

Build Club

Weekly

Full-stack builds, big problems.

Where we work shoulder-to-shoulder on real apps and the kinds of problems you can't solve in a weekend. Less talk, more shipping.

Harness Night

Weekly

Frameworks, harnesses, agents, skills.

The night we sharpen the machine that builds the machine. Stack design, agent architecture, skills systems, the boring infra that makes everything else faster.

AI Vid Vibe

Weekly

World-build, render, vibe.

World building, 3D design, game design, video generation. Bring your weirdest idea. This is where Reachy Mini and BigScreen Beyond VR headsets hang out.

Claw Fest

Quarterly · Coming later this year

Lobster, laptops, pen pals.

Where we get nerdy on our pen pals, sidekicks, and secretaries. Whatever your main agent is, whether it lives on a Mac Mini or a Reachy Mini, bring it. Lobster, laptops, and the people you'd build a company with.

Hackathons

Quarterly

Big tent. All hands.

When there's something worth shipping together. Sponsored, open invite, all skill levels.

Between events

Discord is where the work happens between Sharathons.

People dropping projects mid-build, asking the question they don't want to post on X, helping each other ship. Free. Always on. Show up when you're stuck.

This week in SD AI

A weekly calendar for the people actually building with AI.

Hand-picked AI meetups in San Diego. Filtered by where you actually are in the journey. We vet everything.

Stay in the loop

One short email a week.

Who's shipping in San Diego's AI scene. What's worth your time. What's coming up. No upsells, no funnels, just signal.

one short email per event. unsubscribe anytime.

The studio
Founded by Lucas Cooper-Bey.

Now we're out in the world, building in public, running the events that compound.

RSVP Sharathon · May 16 →