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Join Product Manager Daniel Beasley and developer Joel Peterson for an introduction to vibe coding. This webinar will cover the basics of how vibe coding works and vibe coding tools to kickstart your imagination and help you understand what’s possible.
Summary of Webinar
Overview
Kick off the Vibe Coding series with an approachable intro to building real, working mini-apps from plain-English prompts. Daniel and Joel show how “vibe coding” lowers the barrier to ship ideas quickly: you describe what you want, the tool generates a prototype, and you iterate. The session covers the end-to-end flow in V0 (prompt-based dev) and publishing to Vercel, plus how to plug in RunSignup APIs and a free weather API to make your app genuinely useful. Along the way, you’ll see common pitfalls, fast debugging tactics, and practical prompts that turn vague ideas into shippable tools.
What you’ll learn
The vibe-coding workflow: prompting → generation → refinement/debug → test → publish.
When to use V0/Vercel vs. other helpers (ChatGPT/Claude for debugging, etc.).
How to paste an OpenAPI spec and have the tool wire up RunSignup’s Get Races API.
Handling environment variables and secrets safely when calling APIs.
Rapid UI iteration by prompt (including a fun “theme it” example).
Adding free, keyless weather (Open-Meteo) to enrich race search results.
Practical debugging habits (tight prompts, version rollback, validating data).
Live builds in the session
Project A — Race Pace/Splits Calculator: Built from one prompt, fixed a 5K/5-mile mismatch, added CSV export, then re-themed on the fly.
Project B — Race Finder + Weather: Consumes RunSignup’s Get Races API (via OpenAPI spec), filters by location/date, and displays forecast from a free weather API; published to Vercel and linked out to event pages.
Takeaways
You don’t need to be a developer to prototype useful tools for your events. Start small, prompt clearly, iterate in short loops, and use API specs to go from “neat demo” to “actually helpful” fast.
Resources mentioned
RunSignup API portal (incl. OpenAPI specs)
V0 (prompt-based app builder) and Vercel (hosting)
Open-Meteo (free weather API)
This session is the first in the Vibe Coding series; later webinars go deeper on RunSignup APIs and timer-focused projects.