Uncommon Waters
Academy
← 101 BuildWeek 6 · Dec 14 – Dec 18

Capstone

live product, brief to classmates, exam

Product live on a custom domain and used by one outside person; student briefs classmates on what they built, how it is checked, and what failed; exam sat; record intact for 201.

Monday · 90 minutes live

  1. 5′Frontier failure: the demo that shows the conversation. Show the product.
  2. 60′Briefs in breakout rooms of six: five minutes each on the live product (what it does, how it is checked, what failed, what you cut), three minutes of questions. Buddy keeps time.
  3. 15′Each room sends one brief to the whole class.
  4. 10′Transition to 201: nothing is cleaned up. Your record is the next course's material.

Tuesday to Thursday · you build

  • Custom domain. One outside user with an account who used it, while you watched and did not help.
  • Brief: five minutes, product on screen, never the chat.
  • Sit the exam.

Office hours · two 30-minute blocks

  1. 1Tuesday: DNS and domains.
  2. 2Thursday: brief rehearsal; exam logistics.

Exam whisper · five minutes of vocabulary

Sit the paid exam this week. Retake window is 201 week 1.