What Are We Building
A media site that publishes one person's AI desktop a week: everything they build with AI, how they did it, and how you could try it yourself. Guests don't fill in a form. Their own AI interviews them and drafts the profile, and Frances and I turn it into a desktop you can snoop through. It's for people learning to build with AI who want to see what real people actually make.
The story
I've been starting projects with AI since February: a kids' brand, a bus campaign, a baking log, a trip planner for a month abroad. I love working on a million things at once, and I wanted to share all of it. But what I really wanted was to see what everyone else was building. Not polished case studies, the real stuff: the half-finished apps and the scripts that email your family.
Frances and I 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, we kept that part. What Are We Building puts one person's whole desktop online each week, so you can snoop through what they build, how they built it, and how you could try it yourself.
- Launched
- September 2026
A few tips
- Guests don't fill in a form. Their own AI writes the first draft, because it already knows what they've built.
- Every change gets its own preview link, so I check it on my phone before it goes live.
- The site refuses to publish a profile written in the third person, so the voice can't drift.
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Tools I used for this project
