Demo Day Community

I build a lot of side projects on my own, and the part I always missed was having a small audience. A few people who get why a particular thing is satisfying. There’s no team to show a half-finished feature to, no one to react when you ship something at 2am. So I started Demo Day Community.

It’s a monthly online show-and-tell for indie developers, solo founders, and side-project hackers. Once a month, a few people get on a call and demo what they’ve been working on to a room of people doing the same thing.

The format is small on purpose:

You don’t need slides, a pitch, or even a finished project. You just share your screen and show what you made.

It’s not a pitch competition. No judges, no prizes, no investors. Nobody is scoring you. The point is to show your work to people who are actually curious about it and ask the questions you care about (does this make sense, is this even worth continuing) instead of performing for a panel.

We’ve run two so far. It’s small and early, but the thing I hoped would happen is happening: people show up with something they made on their own time, walk through it, and the room asks real questions. The Q&A has been the best part every time. When you build alone, you almost never get to watch someone use your thing in real time and react to it.

If that sounds like something you’d want, come present or just come watch. Both are fine.

Sign up at demoday.community