AI Weekend Builds
AI projects you can build in a weekend. Each one has a full README, starter code, and the exact prompts I'd use.
The model varies by volume. Vol 4 is built with Codex and uses an OpenAI API key where a project needs one. Earlier volumes use an Anthropic key. Each volume's guide states what it needs.
Sorted by difficulty. Pick one. Build it. Ship it.
Latest: Vol 4: Builds On Your Own Data (August 2026)
5 projects that make your own data work for you: your past, your patterns, your world, your interface, your future.
| # | Project | Difficulty | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Past-You Searcher | Medium | 4-6h | Everything you've ever written becomes one memory you can ask questions |
| 02 | Pattern Mirror | Easy-Medium | 3-5h | Years of your camera roll, rendered as the shape of your life |
| 03 | Lookout | Medium | 4-6h | Stops you checking pages, watches your sources and speaks only when something changes |
| 04 | Personal API | Medium-Advanced | 5-8h | One local server where your life has addresses |
| 05 | Freedom Calculator | Advanced | Full day | Ten thousand simulated versions of your next year, from your own assumptions |
Vol 3 — Life-First Local Builds (July 2026)
5 tools you build yourself and own. Life stuff, not workflow hacks — your documents, your money, your voice, your day, your decisions — and local-first wherever possible, so your data never leaves your machine.
| # | Project | Difficulty | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Life Admin Brain | Medium | 4-6h | Drop in your lease + policies → ask them anything, locally |
| 02 | Money Map | Easy-Medium | 3-5h | Bank CSV → where it went + the subscriptions you forgot |
| 03 | Offline Voice Journal | Medium | 4-6h | Talk 2 min → local transcript → weekly patterns, no cloud |
| 04 | Ambient Life Dashboard | Medium | 5-8h | An old tablet → a calm scene of your day, quietly refreshing |
| 05 | Decision Simulator | Advanced | Full day | A big decision → 10,000 simulated futures in one chart |
Vol 2 — 5 New AI Weekend Builds (May 2026)
Projects focused on what's actually shippable now: vision-to-code, automation pipelines, structure extraction, prompt chaining, and agent loops.
| # | Project | Difficulty | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Screenshot to Code | Easy | 2-4h | Photo of any UI → working React component |
| 02 | AI Daily Digest | Easy | 3-5h | 5 sources → one morning email of what matters |
| 03 | Auto-Skill Builder | Medium | 4-6h | Corrections in a chat → installable skill file |
| 04 | Content Repurposer | Medium | 4-6h | One post → 5 platform-native versions |
| 05 | AI Inbox Triage | Advanced | Full day | Inbox connected → wake to 3 drafts ready |
Vol 1 — The original 5
| # | Project | Difficulty | Time | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Excalidraw MCP Diagram Agent | Easy | 1-3h | Describe any system → get a beautiful editable diagram |
| 02 | One-Command Web Researcher | Easy | 2-4h | Type a topic → get a full research report from any website |
| 03 | Personal RAG Assistant | Medium | 5-8h | Chat with your own docs, PDFs, and notes with memory |
| 04 | Multi-Agent Research Crew | Medium | 6-9h | Team of agents that research, summarize, and report together |
| 05 | Autonomous Coding Agent | Advanced | Full day | Agent that reads GitHub issues and writes the code to fix them |
How to use this repo
Each folder has everything you need:
README.mdwith step-by-step setup- Starter code you can run immediately
- The exact prompts to get started
- What to build next if you want to go deeper
Who this is for
Developers comfortable with Python or Node.js and running commands in the terminal. Where a project needs a hosted model, its volume guide says which key to get: an OpenAI key for vol 4, an Anthropic key for vols 1 to 3. Each project has starter code and a README that walks you through the setup.
If you're newer to coding, start with the easy-mode projects, they're the most approachable.
Made by @qendresahhoti