guide for hack clubbers wanting to run something of their own!

very very incomplete, just a collection of thoughts

what is a you ship we ship?

a you ship we ship event (ysws) is a hack club event that functions like this:

FIRST: the participant creates a project.

• the project must be a technical project — or only the technical part of the project counts. examples of technical projects: apps, websites, games, 3d models, hardware designs, plugins for software, electronics systems. non-technical projects (eg: writing a book, making a song,
• yswses may then impose further restrictions on what that project is. some events are tailored towards a specific kind of project, like a personal website or a retro video game.

examples of past project types

• make a specific thing
  • hivemind: make a roguelike
  • thunder: make a slack bot
  • cmd+k: make a raycast extension
  • hackpad: make a macropad
• use a specific tool
  • railway: use ruby on rails
  • smelt: use svelte/sveltekit
• make a generic thing
  • juice, milkyway: make a game
  • highway, blueprint: make a hardware project
• challenge-based
  • saycheese: fit a program into a qr code
  • roulette: make a game based on the wheels you spin
• generic
  • summer of making, neighborhood, moonshot — make anything you want!

THEN: the participant is rewarded with a prize.

• prizes range from physical items (bubble tea, a framework laptop, a piece of hardware) to digital items (online gift cards, licenses to software) to adventures (an invite to an in-person hackathon or trip somewhere)