Rebuilt his teaching platform in 2 days after GitHub Classroom shut down

GitHub Classroom shut down on August 28, and his Cloud Code Academy ran on it. He wrote a PRD first, then rebuilt the platform with AI over the weekend, with a template repo, feedback pull requests, autograder webhooks and an instructor queue, in 25 commits.

How it works

GitHub Classroom shuts down
He writes a PRD
The AI rebuilds the platform over the weekend
Template repo, feedback PR, autograder webhooks and instructor queue are done in 25 commits over 2 days

Why it’s worth knowing

A shutdown notice became a rebuilt teaching platform in one weekend, from a PRD and 25 commits.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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