Vibecamp came back to Habitat Noosa in August with a bigger beginner stream, more families and more people willing to turn up with half an idea and see where it went.
That beginner stream mattered. It doubled attendance and changed the mix of the weekend. People who had only tried ChatGPT were learning alongside regular builders, teenagers and kids. Laptops were out during the day, then conversations kept going around the campfire.
Maxim Petrov, who joined us, called it “high-speed vibe coding in the middle of a national park”. He also noticed something that comes up whenever people build together: the first answer is often too ambitious. Several of the useful conversations were about narrowing the problem, removing ambiguity and starting small.
Sophie Robertson came with her family and put the atmosphere well: “A safe space to do exactly that, alongside people at every end of the AI journey.” Her kids built projects of their own. One was a beginner’s crochet site called Cozy Fingers. Another was a personal styling site called Style Queen.
FightMMatrix is one of the new ventures that came out of Vibecamp. It is a reminder that a campout can be a good place to get past the blank page and make a first version.
Thanks to Deidre Marczynski and Christine Mackay for organising the weekend, Habitat Noosa for hosting, and Queensland Innovation and Noosa Council for backing it. Vibecamp is part of the Hub’s Tokenizer program, supported by Queensland Government’s Regional Enablers Program.
