Lunatechs Meetup · April 23, 2026
A casual night for opening Cursor and building a first app.
The premise fit in one sentence: bring a laptop, grab boba, open Cursor, and build the smallest version of an app.
I helped host as one of the Lunatechs organizers, alongside Berkeley Club Hong Kong. Some people already coded. Some had barely touched a terminal. We helped people start anyway.
The room settled into work quickly. People asked what to prompt next, read the output, hit errors, and watched an app start forming on their own laptop.
The setup
No stage, no formal lecture, just a table full of laptops.
Central Market worked because it already feels easy to enter. Open tables, food nearby, enough noise for basic questions.
People asked for setup help, compared prompts, and showed each other when something finally rendered.
The beginner loop
Most first apps came from repeating a very small loop.
Describe it
Start with the app idea in plain English, then make the first version smaller than the idea in your head.
Let Cursor draft
Use Cursor for the first rough version, then read enough of the output to know what changed.
Run it
The first local screen matters. It gives people something real to fix.
Fix one thing
Instead of trying to understand the whole stack, pick the next visible problem and ask better questions.
The room
Beginners and developers sat at the same tables.
That helped. A developer could fix a setup issue. A first-timer could ask the question other people were also stuck on.
Berkeley Club Hong Kong brought people who were curious about AI tools but had not tried building with one yet.
What I noticed
The first app can be tiny.
For new builders, the useful moment is seeing a page open locally and realizing they can change it.
Vibe coding is messy. You still need patience, debugging, and enough review to know when the tool made a bad call.
Closing note
More people need a first-build night, not another panel.
Sitting beside someone, getting one screen to render, and fixing the first broken thing did more than another set of predictions.