Send the Link: Launch, Demo & Story

Why it matters

Everything in this track builds toward one thing: proof that you can take an idea and ship something real with AI, and tell the honest story of how. When the capstone is done, you will not have to claim you are good with AI. You will send them a link.

Brief

The capstone has four components, all built across the previous weeks:

1. The launched portfolio: on your custom domain, proving its one claim, filled with real work, navigable by a stranger in five minutes.
2. The proof: a public build-in-public story with one real win and one real limitation.
3. The package: a 3 to 5 minute demo (walk the live portfolio, show the one real feature working, show one place AI did the heavy lifting), plus a short build write-up (the stack you chose and why, the hardest thing that broke, what you would build next), plus your plan to keep building.
4. The FlyRank loop: the graduate badge installed in your footer linking to your verification page, and the site submitted to the FlyRank showcase. Opt in to a featured case study if you are happy to.

Deliverable

The live custom-domain URL, the 3 to 5 minute demo, the build write-up, and the build-in-public story, posted in your track thread and submitted to the showcase.

Evaluation criteria (pass/revise)

• The portfolio is live on a real domain and does its one job: a stranger can tell what you do and believe it in five minutes.
• The one real feature genuinely works in the demo on a fresh try.
• The demo clearly shows one place AI did the heavy lifting.
• The write-up names a real stack decision, a real break, and a real next step, specific to this build.
• The build-in-public story is honest: one real win and one real limitation.
• A concrete plan to keep building exists (a named next piece plus a real reminder).
• The badge is installed and the site is submitted to the showcase.

Tell the honest story

Not a brag, not a press release. What you made, one thing AI did that you could not have done alone, and one thing that broke and what you learned. Honesty is what makes it read as real.

Iris tells the story, and plans her next case

Iris did not just finish a project. She launched a platform she owns and already knows how to keep growing. That is the difference between a class artifact and a career asset.

Dorian wrote his honest post the same day: AI helped him turn a month of messy Instagram notes into a clean before-and-after case, and the share preview broke once before he fixed the title. His next case is already named, the email campaign he is about to run. Same flag, his story.

Ten weeks ago, what you could do with AI was your n: undefined, full of potential. You just solved for it.

You did not study your way into the AI world. You built your way in. You have a real thing you own, on your own domain, filled with your real work, and the habit to keep it growing. When someone asks if you can do this, you will not argue. You will send a link. Now go send it to someone who did not think you could.

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