Summer into AI 2026: Minuteman
A Doom-style FPS built entirely in one HTML file — raycaster, procedural textures, musket reload, Yankee Doodle, and fireworks.
Summer Into AI 2026: Week 2 Submissions
Tracking page for Week 2: every CSV submission gets a local content copy, canonical Substack link, demo link when supplied, and a code reference link without mirroring the code.
38 submissions tracked for Week 2. Profile and avatar images are intentionally excluded from the local copies.
Builder
Jake
12 submissions
Summer into AI 2026: Fireworks Foundry
A browser fireworks canvas with an AI director — describe a vibe and Claude stages the full show
Summer into AI 2026: Ride for Liberty
A pseudo-3D rocket runner to July 4th, 1776 — smash powder kegs for fireworks, dodge Redcoats, and fly to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Summer into AI 2026: The Patriot Gazette
Harbor defense game where ElevenLabs reads Revolutionary War quotes as you defend Boston Harbor on July 4, 1776.
Summer into AI 2026: Drafted
Five votes. Thirteen colonies. The real Declaration of Independence.
Summer into AI 2026: Sons of Liberty
Boston, 1775. You are Samuel Adams. Six rounds to trigger the revolution.
Summer into AI 2026: Liberty Fireworks
Walk a colonial town, wire your mortars, and let Claude judge your 4th of July show.
Summer into AI 2026: The Convention
Five founding fathers. Five simultaneous Claude instances. A debate that runs itself.
Summer into AI 2026: The Broadcast
Claude writes a Revolution radio drama. ElevenLabs performs it. SVG founding fathers take the stage.
Summer into AI 2026: The Boston Defense
Cross-examine 5 witnesses as John Adams' co-counsel defending the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trial — then watch 12 jurors deliver a verdict shaped by your questions.
Summer into AI 2026: The Culper Ring
Decode Revolutionary War cipher dispatches as Agent 355 — Claude generates authentic Culper tradecraft and evaluates your decisions as handler.
Summer into AI 2026: The French Alliance
Play as Benjamin Franklin negotiating the Treaty of Alliance — Claude voices King Louis XVI, Vergennes, the Philosophes, and the Merchants simultaneously.
Builder
Adam
7 submissions
The Internet Gave Us Independence. Then the Feed Asked for Rent.
Building The Social Engine: Context Collapse, a 30-day strategy game about finding your people, surviving virality, and keeping the algorithm from turning every audience into the same room.
Dead Man’s Ledger: The Money Engine
A browser strategy game about paper money, dangerous routes, frontier trust, and the ancient American art of watching your delivery turn into a financial crime scene.
Food Engines: I Built a Tiny Farm Game Because Tomatoes Are Infrastructure
A cheerful browser game about planting crops, feeding a town, and realizing independence is a pantry with a plan.
Manifest Notebooky: I Built a Notebook App That Immediately Betrays You for Freedom
A satirical browser notebook where you can write anything, as long as the eagle gets final edit.
Engines of Independence: I Built a Town Where Every Solution Creates a New Problem
A browser strategy game about power, money, freight, newspapers, corruption, public works, and the civic machinery hiding under the word “freedom.”
Freedom Engine: Red, White & Boomtown
I built a Fourth of July festival sim where liberty depends on bathrooms, trash cans, traffic flow, funnel cakes, and one deeply stressed fire marshal.
SAM AI: I Trained a Corporate Anti-Assistant and Accidentally Built a Meeting Simulator
Inspired by Qwen Franklin, Zezek the Corporate Goblin, and every manager who says “AI strategy” when the real problem is a broken button.
Builder
Kady
1 submission
River Pig: Chassell Log Jam — My Week 2 Independence Engine
A local history arcade game about logging, bottlenecks, beavers, and one very hungry sawmill
Builder
Myles
8 submissions
PERPETUAL UNION — a million points of light that hold one flag, and re-form when you tear them apart
For the last build of the week I wanted one thing: it had to be beautiful, and it had to mean something.
SOVEREIGN — a union no king can stamp and no one can forge
Here’s a question the founders actually had to answer: what makes a thing legitimate when there’s no king to stamp it?
EMERGENT REVOLUTION — 13 colonies that teach themselves to be free
I wanted to build independence as a thing that has to be learned — not declared, not scripted, not voted on a rail I laid down in advance.
Dependency Day — a single-file, in-browser systems-strategy puzzle for Week 2: Independence Engines.
The theme Eric created asked for independence as a mechanic, not a symbol.
SOLO: teaching a neural network to fly — and what I learned building it from scratch
Week 2’s theme was Independence Engines: independence as a mechanic, not a symbol.
MURMURATION — independence isn't a symbol, it's an architecture
Week 2’s theme was Independence Engines: independence as a mechanic, not a symbol.
LIBERTY ENGINE — an anthem with no conductor
For Week 2’s Independence Engines, I wanted to hear the theme, not just watch it.
SELF-EVIDENT — I built a GPT from scratch that trains itself, live, in your browser
Most “AI builds” are a wrapper around someone else’s model.
Builder
Evan
1 submission
How to Turn Any Topic Into a Founding Fathers Briefing
Every good idea deserves a strong introduction.
Builder
Eric
7 submissions
Summer into AI: Week2 Submission: Zezek the Goblin: Web based Goblin Brain
Running out of wall clock time, but still time for one more thing.
Summer Into AI: Week2: Independence Town
Fireworks Factory Town
Zezek the Goblin
I trained a corporate goblin to intentionally help plan your day.
Summer into AI: Eric Submission #3: Qwen Franklin
When competition forces the release.
Summer into AI: Week2 Submission: Eric's Summer Job Finder for Kids
Maybe AI can solve real problems, too.
Summer into AI: Week2 Submission: Eric's FANS of Independence Engines
Independence from hot days
Summer into AI: Week2 Submission: Independence Engines in Space
This is using a tooling setup I’m trying-the competition is really meant to push on different tools that maybe you don’t normally use.
Builder
Heather
1 submission
Leaderboard Oracle
I Built an App to Track an AI Competition
Builder
Kyle
1 submission
Week 2 Points
Calculated from summer-into-ai-week2-submissions.csv using the same assumptions as the Week 1 tracker and the Summer Into AI scoring rules. Every submitted Substack post earns +15 publishing points, including an article or embedded video with no separate app, demo URL, or code repository. Demo and code links add proof points and unlock the proof-backed bonuses.
2260Total Week 2 points
38Scored submissions
38Archived submissions
775Top participant total
| Rank | Participant | Scored Submissions | Total Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | 12 | 775 |
| 2 | Myles | 8 | 515 |
| 3 | Adam | 7 | 440 |
| 4 | Eric | 7 | 345 |
| 5 | Heather | 1 | 50 |
| 5 | Kady | 1 | 50 |
| 5 | Kyle | 1 | 50 |
| 8 | Evan | 1 | 35 |
Assumptions: every submitted Substack URL receives +15 publishing points even without a separate demo or repository; demo plus code receives +25 proof points, while demo-only or code-only receives +10. Proof-backed submissions also receive the +10 weekly theme bonus; Builds On Others=Y receives the +15 competitor-reference bonus; a populated Bonuses cell receives +5 extra-channel points; and the first proof-backed submission bonus follows CSV order. A Substack-only article or embedded video therefore scores 15 publishing points.