Lunatechs Meetup #7 · March 28, 2026
Forty people brought laptops, questions, and half-formed ideas.
I co-hosted this as one of the Lunatechs organizers in Hong Kong. The premise was simple: help people get Claude Code installed, open a project folder, and start.
I am not a developer. Claude Code made me feel like I could build things that were out of reach a month earlier. I wanted people to see that path without pretending it was effortless.
This was not a polished demo day. It was laptops, chargers, half-finished prompts, and someone asking what to try next.
The spark
Claude Code was different because it worked inside a folder.
ChatGPT was the first big shift for me. Claude Code shifted something else: it could read a project, edit files, run commands, and keep going.
That mattered because I was already building things I did not expect to build: Mandarin tools, progress tracking, study flows, and small systems I could not have built alone.
What people needed
The event was mostly setup help and first projects.
Setup help
Installation, auth, and the right project folder can stop someone before the work begins.
First projects
People brought app, workflow, and automation ideas. Sitting together made the first prompt easier to write.
Younger builders
A 10-year-old came because a 15-year-old had built a game. That was probably my favorite detail of the day.
Starter kit
I put together presentations, reference cards, and guides to help people get past the blank-page and first-setup problem.
The room
Central Market was crowded with laptops.
Some people paired up. Some debugged setup. Some were trying to understand why Claude Code felt different from a chat window.
I moved table to table, answered what I could, and watched what people tried first.
What I noticed
Beginners wanted to try it, not hear another AI forecast.
People wanted to know what to install, what folder to open, what to ask first, and what to do when the command failed.
That is still the best way to learn these tools: open a real folder and keep someone nearby who can help when it breaks.
Around the tables
The orange Lunatechs mascot made the rounds.
People came to learn, but it was not stiff. There were jokes, side conversations, quick photos, and a lot of people asking for help without making it a big deal.
That made setup questions easier to ask.
Closing note
I left wanting more laptop-first events in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong needs more rooms where people can ask basic questions out loud. Watching someone install Node, fix a path error, or make one tiny app run is the part people remember.
People left with the tool installed and one less reason to be intimidated by it.
