Season Zero · the build challenge · LinkedIn
Build challenge
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Nine pages as one PDF. Upload it to LinkedIn as a document, not as images.
Same six steps as the feed version, three things changed for this room. The cover leads with the money, because LinkedIn shows page one as a thumbnail. The last page carries the real address instead of a link in bio. And the ask at the end is a referral, which is the thing this audience is actually good at.
Post it as a document. Upload the PDF itself. Posting the nine images as a carousel gets a fraction of the reach and people cannot page through it.
The post
We put $600 on a question and let a room in Milwaukee answer it. What could you build that brings people together? That is the whole prompt for Season Zero, a three month build challenge running out of one cafe on Van Buren. September to November. Free to enter, free to attend, open to anyone. Two tracks, $300 each: • GM Spaces Track, built for or with our app • Custom Track, your own thing, any stack A few things that make it different from most hackathons I have been to. You do not have to write code. Four of the six things worth weighing have nothing to do with engineering, and a well run community project beats a mediocre app. There is no judge panel. On Demo Day the room votes, in the app, and you have to be standing in the room to cast one. One vote each, enforced by the database rather than by a rule in a document. Nobody's friends decide it from out of town. It is three nights, not one weekend. September is conversation, October is ninety second previews, November is build all day and then demo. You can also walk in for the first time in November and still compete, which is what the Sprint lane exists for. The prize pool comes from Red Foundry and Obsrvr, $300 each. Everything is written down, including what we have not built yet: gmcarl.xyz/season0 If you know somebody in Milwaukee who is building something, send them this. That is the whole ask. Come say gm.
Put gmcarl.xyz/season0 in the post itself, not in a comment. The link is already on the last page, so a reader who never leaves the document still has it.
GM! Carl Studio · prize pool by Red Foundry and Obsrvr · $300 each