Website Improv: You're the Worst Client Ever
by Tom Benbow | at Minnebar20 | 11:35 – 12:15 in Minnetonka | View Schedule
I built a platform for developing websites. You're going to help me test it — by being the most difficult clients imaginable.
Here's how it works: someone pitches a website idea, I build it live using Geppetto (the tool I've been building), and then you tell me everything that's wrong with it. More Comic Sans. Make the logo bigger. Actually, start over. I want it to feel more... blue.
I'll do my best to keep up. It might go off the rails. That's the point.
Along the way, I'll share some thoughts on how we can use AI to enhance our workflow while maintaining control.
Come if you enjoy watching someone build things under pressure, have strong opinions about fonts, or have ever wanted to say "I'll know it when I see it" and mean it.
Tom Benbow
Tom builds unusual software. Think motion-tracking experiences for kids, anonymous SMS-based lost and found, or a terminal-style life tracker that exposes patterns in your life — like you ate three burritos on your best climbing day. He's currently building Geppetto, a platform for building and managing websites that uses AI as an assistant, not the creative director. He has chosen to demo it live with no script. Fingers crossed.
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Interested Participants
- David Simmer
- Jeff Lin
- Mark Norgren
- Jay Taylor
- Matt Decuir
- John Eickholt
- Eve Poeschl
- Michelle Smeby
- John Wilson
- Kisha Delain
- Tom Benbow
- Kellen Baker
- Kendra Plant
- M. Vang
- Ben Hymans
- Paul Esch-Laurent
- Emma Peacha
- Chloe Larson
- Alexis Logsdon
- Joe Lencioni
- James Ellingson
- Beth Elliott
- Benjamin Schatz
- Paul Carroll
- Katie Sandquist
- Nate Yourchuck
- Ben Goffman
- Rob Davis
- James Greene
- Brett Koster
- Misty Garrick
- Tim Hoppe
- Ethan Scheelk
- Reagan
- Aleksandra Antic
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