About

What Are We Building puts one person's whole desktop online each week: everything they build with AI, how they did it, and how you could try it yourself.

It's for people learning to build with AI who want to see what real people actually make. Not polished case studies, the real stuff: the half-finished apps and the scripts that email your family.

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How a desktop gets made

1. Guests don't fill in a form. Their own AI interviews them and drafts the profile, because it already knows what they've built.
2. Carley and Frances turn the draft into a desktop you can peek through, and read it once more before it goes live.
3. The guest sees their page and says yes before anyone else does.

Who runs it

Carley and Frances ran AI Trailmates, a free community for people teaching themselves AI. The best part was always members showing each other what they'd made. So when it ended, they kept that part.

Carley HartProfessor of Entrepreneurship at NYU and co-founder of What Are We BuildingFrances TangFounder, Small Batch Ventures

Launched September 2026.

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