Hello Cape Town,Fable 5.1 is here. Let’s build.
Claude Fable 5.1 Build Day brings the Cape Town Claude community together for one morning of building on the new model. Bring your laptop and an idea. We'll build, we'll break things, and we'll have a good time doing it.
Cape Town’s first Claude build day.
Fable 5.1 has landed. The fastest way to understand a new model isn't to read about it, it's to put it in front of people who build things and see what happens. So that's what we're doing.
Chat with us on Discord
Share what you're building, swap resources, and keep the conversation going after today.
Pick a track
Three ways in. Pick whichever one fits the thing you actually want to build. Nobody is checking.
Delight
Something surprising, beautiful, or just plain fun.
The bar: you couldn't have made it this good, this fast, before. Lean into craft, polish or sheer playfulness — the thing people want to show someone else the moment they see it.
Breakthrough
Something that wasn't possible before.
Take a problem the last model couldn't handle and see how far this one gets. Bring the prompt that used to fail, the task that needed too many steps, the thing you gave up on.
Everyday
Something that fixes a real annoyance in your life or work.
The unglamorous one, and often the most useful. A script, a tool, a small piece of automation that removes a job you actually do every week.
Three and a half hours, start to finish
Show up, set up, pick a track, build hard, demo, vote, wrap. That's the whole thing.
- 09:30Doors open
Coffee, get your laptop and your API credits set up.
- 10:00Kickoff
What's new in Fable 5.1, plus a few live demos.
- 10:30Tracks explained, teams form
Pick Delight, Breakthrough or Everyday. Go solo or team up in twos to fours.
- 10:45Build time
Heads down. Pick your track and go.
- 12:00Demos
Two minutes each. Voting is already open — spend your 3 votes as you watch.
- 12:45Group photo, share your build, wrap up
Vote closes, winners called out, group photo.
- 13:00Close
That's a wrap. See you at the next one.
The room picks the winners
Everyone gets 3 votes. Spread them across one demo, two, or three. However you felt watching them.
Voting opens at 11:30 and closes at 12:45, just before we wrap. One ballot per device.
Vote
How we do this
Ask the person next to you what they're building. The best things that happen in a room like this start with that question.
There aren't any. If you're wondering it, someone else in the room is too, and they'll be glad you said it out loud.
If you know the thing someone's stuck on, tell them. Everyone here knows something the person beside them doesn't.
Half-finished counts. Show it anyway. Nobody is here to judge your code, and the rough version is usually the more interesting one.
Roamwork Harrington
An iconic building in Cape Town's East City, turned into a flexible co-working space. Roamwork has been running here since 2018, with hot desks, meeting rooms and board rooms across the second floor.
Visit RoamworkWant to demo your build?
Register your two minutes now. Fill in the form, or connect the MCP server and let Claude do it for you.
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