I Planned an Exit Strategy. I Stayed the Whole Time.
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A personal account of attending a SheBuilds on Lovable hackathon event on International Women's Day, where the author—a non-engineer with a courtroom operations background—built Aftershow Atlas, a concert history tracker app with a Musical DNA feature. The post reflects on embracing a 'builder identity' without a traditional CS background, using AI tools like Claude for creative direction rather than writing code from scratch, and the unexpectedly welcoming community atmosphere of the event.
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