Type how you're feeling → a little token drops into your jar.
One text box: type what's on your mind. AI generates a mood sticker/item — kawaii emoji, glowing orb, tiny potion, pixel-art object — and drops it into a visual 'jar' on the page. The jar fills up as you keep writing.
“My scattered thoughts just turned into a cute little token in my jar.”
Every Coding Jam follows the same five-phase shape. Talking is short, building is long.
Grab a name tag and a slice, say hello to the instructor, and meet the people either side of you — you'll be asking them things later, so it pays to know their names now. Low pressure, high creativity, ship something messy. Then a quick word on what the room is building tonight, and you're off.
The instructor shares the Google Cloud credits with the room. Everyone gets their environment ready — whichever tool they brought. Nobody should be installing anything once the build starts.
Heads down, and enjoy it — this is the part everyone came for. The agent does the typing; you decide what it's making. Ask the room when you get stuck; someone two seats away hit the same wall ten minutes ago. Want more structure? The codelab walks the spec-driven route — Setup → Plan → Review → Build → API → Verify — but nobody has to follow it.
Show the room what you made — two minutes, screen-shared from your seat. Half-finished is welcome; the wobbly ones are usually the most interesting. Say what surprised you along the way, and cheer for everyone else while you're at it. Then submit your build before you leave. This is the one thing not to skip — it's what puts your name and your chapter on the showcase, and it takes about two minutes.
The 45-minute build is the win in the room. These are the ideas you can pull in over the next week — your homework isn’t homework, it’s the polished version.
Open one of these in the starter — safety nets, not requirements.
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An interactive digital mood jar app that transforms daily emotions into preserved, glowing memory notes. Users record their current state of mind to receive instant AI reflections, visual vibe tracking, and mood history visualization directly in the browser.
“I was surprised by how a simple visual UI transformation and lightweight client-side state could instantly make emotion-tracking feel so tactile, playful, and engaging.”
