The 2-Hour AI Sprint: Discover, Validate, and Launch Your Own App

The HBS Club of Seattle invites you to an exclusive workshop on how to leverage the latest AI tools to discover, validate, and launch ideas in under two hours. This event is specifically designed to help non-technical leaders leverage cutting-edge AI tools to rapidly discover product ideas, validate them, and launch a working prototype. You will use Lovable's AI agent to analyze seven years of curated ideas and advice from top tech experts, allowing you to build and publish your own app—no previous coding experience required.

The event kicks off at 6:00pm with an overview of how to use Lovable and the dataset provided. At 8:00pm, finalists will present 3-minute demos of what they built.

What you’ll get:

1. Free month of Lovable Pro to create your app, analysis, and presentation materials

2. Access to all of the nearly 350 newsletters and 300 podcast transcripts from Lenny Rachitsky’s renowned Substack (1.2M+ subscribers)

3. A comprehensive overview of how to use Lovable and add Lenny’s data to your project

4. Support from experienced AI coding mentors

5. Build and network with fellow MBAs over food and drinks

What you’ll leverage AI to create within Lovable:

• Use an AI research assistant to explore and analyze Lenny’s data set of ideas and interviews to find your own app idea to build

• Use a gen AI agent to automatically create a slide deck to pitch your app and receive feedback

• Use an AI coding agent to create and publish your own app based on your pitch

Each participant has the chance to deliver a 2 minute pitch using their AI-generated slide deck. Finalists will demo their app live to the audience. The winner receives a free one month paid subscription to Lenny’s Newsletter.

Here’s what to do before the event:

1. Sign up for Lovable to explore the platform and receive a free month of Lovable Pro (100 credits) at the event

2. Subscribe for free to Lenny’s Newsletter to familiarize yourself with the topics he has covered

3. [Optional but recommended] Sign up for Wispr Flow to reach “peak vibe coding” and speed up your app development through voice dictation

Who’s Invited:

• HBS alumni (all programs)

• Ivy++ (Stanford, Wharton, Booth, Columbia, MIT, etc.)

• Harvard undergrad/grad alumni

• Your guests

Event Details

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026

Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm

Place: Washington 1000 at 1000 Olive Way, Seattle - Lobby floor

Price: $10 to $30 to cover venue and F&B costs

Event Contacts

Adam Burgh - adam.burgh@gmail.com‬

Kyle Buffenmyer - kylebuffenmyer@gmail.com - ‪+1.717.201.0064

This event is co-hosted with We Build With AI, a non-profit organization of AI experts dedicated to teaching non-technical folks how to harness the power of AI tools to impact their daily work and lives. The organization was founded by HBS alum Adam Burgh (MBA 2012)​. You can find more of their events on Luma or webuildwithai.org.

See the types of apps participants created in just 90 minutes at the previous HBS vibe coding events on Adam’s YouTube channel.

Here are a just a few of the interviews included in the dataset of nearly 350 newsletters and 300 podcast transcripts:

1. Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, Google/Google Ventures, Foundation Sprint and design thinking. They ran 300+ design sprints across startups and built a repeatable methodology for stress-testing ideas before committing resources, which is exactly the kind of systematic thinking MBAs need to move faster and waste less.

2. Kevin Systrom, Instagram/Facebook, intentionality and simplification over data-driven decision making. He made the call to go all-in on Stories at Instagram without AB testing it first, proving that founder instinct and clarity on differentiation can outweigh measurement, which flips how most MBAs are trained to think.

3. Brian Chesky, Airbnb, designing unconstrained end states first. He taught teams to design the 15 out of 10 experience without constraint, then figure out how to scale it, which is the opposite of how most product organizations think and directly applicable to any student building something.

4. Casey Winters, multiple companies including Airbnb and Pinterest, growth loops and network effects. His work on how to actually identify and build a growth loop is one of the clearest frameworks for marketplace and platform thinking.

5. Gokul Rajaram, Google/Stripe/Square, remarking and word of mouth. Every great product needs to be remarkable along at least one dimension that actually matters to customers, and most teams miss this entirely because they try to be good at everything.