Welcome to Zero-to-AO: The Ultimate Builder's Guide! This initiative is designed to help you transition from learning about AO to actively building real-world projects on the AO Mainnet.
Through weekly office hours, structured guidance, and hands-on mentorship, you'll refine your ideas, kickstart your development, and prepare for upcoming AO hackathons and builder challenges.
Zero-to-AO is a six-week guided program with structured learning, hands-on coding, and mentorship to help you build and deploy AO-powered applications.
- Developers new to AO & Arweave
- Hackathon participants
- Web3 builders exploring perma-compute
- Anyone interested in smart contracts & decentralized apps
Each week is structured with learning materials, coding exercises, and mentorship support:
- Week 1: Ideation & Project Planning
- Week 2: Kickstarting Development
- Week 3:(Coming soon) First Checkpoint & Feedback
- Week 4:(Coming soon) UX, Performance & Optimization
- Week 5:(Coming soon) Finalizing MVP & Pitch Preparation
- Week 6:(Coming soon) Demo Day & Post-Hackathon Strategies
- Fork this repository & clone it locally:
git clone https://github.com/arweaveph/zero-to-ao.git cd zero-to-ao - Finish the Arweave Academy and/or Balangay Roadshow Lessons 1-4
- Join our Discord community & weekly Office Hours to ask questions.
- Start with Week 1 and follow the structured guides.
Want to help improve this repo? Read the Contributing Guide to get involved!
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