Vibe ThursdayThis meetup has version numbers.
It keeps changing — the format, the room, the things it does. Here is every change, newest first. This tracks the meetup itself, not the website's commits.
Running now v5.11
This tracks the meetup, so both halves are here: what changed about how the morning runs, and what the site grew. Most of the first kind never touched a line of code — they come from the run sheet and the retro kept after each session.
- Major
- The shape of the morning changed: a new room, a new time, or a new way of running it. You would have to tell someone who had been before.
- Minor
- Something exists that did not before.
- v5.11MinorIn the room5 Nov 2026
From 10 November Build Tuesday is online, every Tuesday 10:30–12:00: watch the organiser build a real product live with AI, and hear which products make money. There are no single tickets any more; co-creator members and mentors take part, added before each Tuesday to a WeChat group for that session where the Zoom link is posted. The membership is now one block of four Tuesdays, paid once; the first block is 10, 17 and 24 November and 1 December. Earlier memberships carry on as before. Thursday is unchanged.
- v5.10MinorIn the room4 Nov 2026
Build Tuesday is back to mornings only, 10:30–12:30: two projects or needs lined up in advance and taken apart on the spot, your own work the rest of the time, and match-ups before you leave; lunch is optional and there is no afternoon workshop. Signups now close at 8pm the night before.
- v5.9MinorOn the site2 Nov 2026
The site is easier to find your way around: the top bar is now Tuesday, membership, class and one "Community" menu, and the footer is three columns. The home page first asks which one you are — first time, join a Thursday; bringing a project, see Tuesday; want to learn it properly, see the class — then explains your first morning in three steps. The helpers checking people in at the door now have their own phone back office too.
- v5.8MinorOn the site2 Nov 2026
The site is now built for phones first: on the home, Tuesday, membership and class pages the form comes early and a sign-up button stays at the bottom of the screen. The site's own photos from the room are now redrawn in a hand-painted style with faces replaced, and every morning in the archive has a picture — where none was taken, it says the picture is from another morning.
- v5.7MinorIn the room2 Nov 2026
Build Tuesday is now built around real needs and projects, a full day in three parts, 10:30–15:30: projects and tech in the morning, real needs over lunch, hands-on in the afternoon. The exact address is shown once you have signed up and paid. The co-creator membership — every Tuesday free for a year, plus one AI+IP class — can now be bought by card on the site. Thursday stays free and sells nothing.
- v5.6MinorOn the site28 Oct 2026
The guide is up: the three parts of a morning, four ways to take part and eight agreements, readable on a phone in a minute; every item has its own link to share in the group.
- v5.5MinorIn the room24 Oct 2026
No more ordering drinks ahead online: order and pay at the bar when you arrive. The site also no longer shows how many have signed up or how many places are left — only "full" when it is.
- v5.4MinorIn the room6 Oct 2026
One morning per week: signing up for a week's Build Tuesday gives up that week's Thursday place or waitlist spot, and the other way round — the confirmation and "My signup" both say which one went. And people who build things are pointed to Tuesday: while that week's Tuesday has room, a builder signing up for Thursday goes on its waitlist, since Thursday is kept first for business owners and newcomers.
- v5.3MinorOn the site5 Oct 2026
The signup form is now four steps: who you are, which sounds most like you, about you, and which morning. Once you pick, it asks only the one or two questions that matter for you — business owners get industry and what they most want AI for, builders get what they are building and whether they can show it, newcomers get how far they have got — and builders see Build Tuesday first. The questions about which AI you use and what you spend on it are gone.
- v5.2MinorOn the site5 Oct 2026
The signup form, "My signup" and the check-in page now have "Log in with WeChat". On a computer it shows a QR code: scan it with WeChat on your phone and tap the number shown on the computer's screen, and the computer is logged in. Inside WeChat, enter your name and WeChat ID once and you are recognised from then on.
- v5.1MinorOn the site4 Oct 2026
Open the site inside WeChat and it now recognises you: once you have signed up, or looked yourself up under "My signup", with your own name, that WeChat is linked to your signup. After that you no longer type your WeChat ID to sign up, and scanning the check-in code at the door opens on "Is this you?" — one tap and you are in. On someone else's phone, or if it got it wrong, "Not me" unlinks it.
- v5.0MajorIn the room4 Oct 2026
A second morning: Build Tuesday. For people who build things — a small meeting room in Chatswood, 15 people, no stage and no talk, laptops open, looking at each other's work. Thursday carries on as before, for meeting people. The signup form now offers the Tuesday too, and if Thursday is full the confirmation tells you how many places the Tuesday still has.
- v4.10MinorIn the room2 Oct 2026
The waitlist is a waitlist again: each session holds 40, signups after that go on the waitlist and come once they hear from me; if you are not booked, please move to the next Thursday. The check-in page now opens with a search for your name, and if it is not there you can check in by typing it. The signup confirmation has a pass you can screenshot. On Thursday, feedback is on /go from 10am, and after the session you can book a one-to-one with the organiser.
- v4.9MinorOn the site30 Sept 2026
/go on the day is smoother: before 10am it reminds you to check in, and from 10am that line becomes the check-in link. Checking in opens your badge straight away — or, if you have no card yet, takes you to fill one in. From 10am /go no longer offers ordering, because the list has already gone to the bar; order at the counter instead, and an order you already placed is still there to see. The week's candidate questions are listed on the day too.
- v4.8MinorOn the site29 Sept 2026
The Wharf is de-duplicated: when several people asked the same question it now appears once, with everyone who asked it named underneath; one person asking the same thing in different words is folded into one too. The wording kept is always one of the askers' own. When you ask something new on the Wharf and a similar question is already there: if it has an answer, you are shown the answer first and can still ask if it did not help; if it has not, your name goes under that question — and one tap posts yours on its own if it is not the same thing.
- v4.7MinorOn the site28 Sept 2026
The pixel game has a weekly board: grab the coffee bean (one appears every minute or two, first one there gets it), high-five people, show up each day and finish the day's three tasks — and being in the room on Thursday counts for a lot; Thursday morning is double points. It resets every Monday, and last week's winner wears a crown all week. Points only count in the game — not on cards, not for anything.
- v4.6MinorOn the site28 Sept 2026
This phone remembers you: sign up once, or look yourself up on /my once, and opening vibethursday.com/my or /go on the same phone shows your Thursdays and any waitlist straight away — no name or WeChat ID to type. Signed up on someone else's phone? Tap «Not you?» to clear it. The waitlist now queues in the order people joined it.
- v4.5MinorOn the site28 Sept 2026
The waitlist is explained: once the seats are taken you join the waitlist, and waitlisted people can still come, just without a reserved seat — no need to sign up for another Thursday as a fallback. After signing up you see every Thursday you are down for, and the top of «My card» shows them too, with a link to change them. The form now helps tell a WeChat ID from a nickname and says where to find it, and /my tells you when a WeChat ID is signed up under a different name.
- v4.4MinorOn the site28 Sept 2026
You can now check and change your own signup: open vibethursday.com/my, enter your name and WeChat ID, and see which Thursdays you are down for and whether you are on a waitlist — then move to another Thursday, or cancel and free your place for someone waiting. Unpublished cards no longer hand out a QR code that opens nothing, and a page that does not exist now says why that might be and where to go instead.
- v4.3MinorOn the site28 Sept 2026
Easier to find things on a phone: the sign-up form is one screen down on the home page, and says how many places are left when a session is nearly full; the order page folds the menu by category so one drink takes one screen, with the button always at the bottom; and the member wall shows each person in a line and a half — name, how often they have come, what they are looking for — so you can find someone at a glance on the Thursday. Album photos come in the right size for the screen and open faster.
- v4.2MinorOn the site28 Sept 2026
vibethursday.com/go now shows this week's candidate questions, turns into "today we talk about" on the morning, and links straight to check-in that morning; a full session says so and offers the waitlist. The Wharf shows each person's question once and folds the stale ones. Pages are easier to tap and read on a phone, and the Traditional Chinese pages use the right characters.
- v4.1MinorOn the site28 Sept 2026
One link is enough now: vibethursday.com/go, which changes by itself with the date — signing up, ordering and your card before, check-in and your order on the day, feedback after. Drinks can be ordered ahead on the site and picked up by name. The sign-up form is shorter, and the «what do you most want to ask» box can ask you one follow-up question to make it more specific.
- v4.0MajorIn the room28 Sept 2026
The format changed: doors at 10:30, start at 10:45, and no more tables — the whole room together: a welcome, one line from each first-timer, the week's topic, two questions voted on beforehand and talked through properly, then a sheet for who you want to meet.
- v3.4MinorOn the site25 Sept 2026
There is a pixel game now: a Sydney laid out on the real streets, where you walk from Circular Quay across the Harbour Bridge, take the T1 to Chatswood, meet people from the member wall on the street and their work on stalls at the Thursday market, and make the 10:30 table. It works on a phone, and you can see who else is playing.
- v3.3MinorOn the site24 Sept 2026
Feedback opens after each morning and closes a week later. From the next session the weekly poster becomes one of a numbered set of Sydney plates, and the code on it becomes that day's check-in code — scan it when you arrive and you are checked in.
- v3.2MinorOn the site22 Sept 2026
The sign-up form asks one more thing: what you most want to leave with.
- v3.1MinorOn the site18 Sept 2026
The page for the session coming up opens before the morning does. Until then it did not exist until the day itself.
- v3.0MajorIn the room17 Sept 2026
Moved to The Avenue in Chatswood. The new room opens at 10:30, so the whole morning shifted half an hour later and now starts when the doors do.
- v2.8MinorOn the site10 Sept 2026
Check-in: scan the code on the table, tap your own name. The first time this site knew who actually came rather than who meant to — and so each session got a page of its own: who was there, what was asked, the photographs.
- v2.7MinorOn the site3 Sept 2026
There is no projector, so everyone's phone is the screen: open a room, and it follows along.
- v2.6MinorIn the room3 Sept 2026
The opening became three sentences, about fifty seconds: hands up if it is your first time; let's all rename ourselves in the group to name plus what we are building; move tables whenever you like. At the end, one message goes to the group.
- v2.5MinorOn the site28 Aug 2026
Each session became a thing of its own — a painting, an archive entry, a running count. Questions on the Wharf can be answered.
- v2.4MinorOn the site27 Aug 2026
The Wharf: the question you wrote when you signed up goes up where everyone can see it, and anyone can take it.
- v2.3MinorIn the room27 Aug 2026
Dropped the round of table reports. Taking turns to report back turns a party into a meeting — deleting it was cheaper than making rules for it.
- v2.2MinorIn the room20 Aug 2026
Tables are by topic and you pick one on the way in; nobody is assigned. This was also the first session run by somebody other than the organiser, who was away — the first proof that it does not depend on one person.
- v2.1MinorOn the site15 Aug 2026
Traditional Chinese, and a switch between Simplified, Traditional and English.
- v2.0MajorIn the room13 Aug 2026
The whole format changed. No more going round the circle — thirty people take half an hour and you have forgotten the first by the last; now only first-timers say a line. Talks are five minutes each, no questions on the spot, and then the room splits into small tables where the actual discussion happens. One rule said out loud: you can walk away without saying goodbye.
- v1.2MinorOn the site9 Aug 2026
The member wall: one card each. Stand your phone up and it is your name badge.
- v1.1MinorOn the site7 Aug 2026
Sign-ups accumulate across sessions, so coming back is just picking the day. The form gained one line: what you want to talk about this week.
- v1.0MajorIn the room6 Aug 2026
The first one. Thursday morning, one table, people who are building things: everyone introduces themselves in turn, then a few show what they are working on.