Day 5 · Ignite: someone else uses it, then decide
| Runs with | Day 5, after the 30-minute briefing: Part A in the morning (about 105 minutes, ending with one real person using your product), Part B in the afternoon (about 120 minutes, ending with demos), then the 15-minute gate |
|---|---|
| Format | Prompt-based: every step is a prompt you give Claude, followed by a check you do yourself. Every prompt today runs in Claude Code, in your repository |
| You need | Your repository from Day 4, with the slice running and its tests passing; one real person who is not on the course, booked for 20 minutes late in the morning; for a preview URL, an account with a host you have chosen; for a local demo, a way for that person to use your laptop (in person, or a screen share with remote control) |
| You leave with | A preview URL or a local demo someone else has used unaided, costs per user and break-even on a page, a decision memo in product/05-decision.md, and a five-minute demo, given |
| Gate | The Day 5 gate (Part C), closing Ignite and the week |
Where you are
You have one slice that runs, with tests, access checks and a dependency scan. Today answers: can someone else use it, what would it cost, and what next? Someone other than you tries to reach the first value moment without help. You then work out what running it would cost, decide honestly between persevere, iterate, pivot or stop, and show the whole route in five minutes.
| Product Book file or repository item | What it holds | Used in step |
|---|---|---|
product/02-proposition.md | The build objective, hypothesis and first value moment | A1, B4 |
product/03-plan.md | MVP objective and the threshold you set before building | A4, B1, B4 |
product/04-build.md | The plan, tests, access tests, scan and the build objective check | A1, B5 |
product/05-decision.md | Today's work: deploy or demo notes, the user session, costs and break-even, the decision | Every step |
CLAUDE.md | Imports the Product Book; stack, commands, conventions, working agreement | Every step |
Your build objective ends: "on Day 5, one real person reaches it without help." Today is the day you find out. If they don't, that is evidence, not failure: write down what happened.
What you are building
| Part | Where it lives | Built in step |
|---|---|---|
| Deploy or demo plan, with secrets by name only | product/05-decision.md, under Release | A2 |
| A preview URL, or a local demo that runs from a clean start | Your host, or your laptop | A3 |
| A neutral script for the user session | product/05-decision.md | A4 |
| Notes from one real person using it unaided | product/05-decision.md, under User session | A5, B1 |
| Costs per user, each labelled measured or assumed | product/05-decision.md, under Costs and break-even | B2 |
| Break-even in one line | product/05-decision.md | B3 |
| Decision memo: persevere, iterate, pivot or stop | product/05-decision.md | B4, B5 |
| A five-minute demo, scripted and given | Your demo | B6, B7 |
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