Your seat

This seat is yours.

The app, the prototype, the idea you keep postponing.
Build it next to people doing the same.

Make progress on something you care about. Find your creative community along the way.

You've had the idea for months.

It lives in your notes app and in a folder called “new project”. Most evenings you mean to open it, and most evenings you end up on your phone instead.

The longer it waits, the bigger it feels.

You start wondering if it's any good, if someone's already built it, if it's too late. Working on it alone, those questions get louder than the work.

Sitting on the sofa, hand on chin, with a tangle of thoughts floating overhead

So one day, you take it somewhere.

With AI tools, getting a first version working is easier than it's ever been. The hard part is sitting down to do it, and that's easier in a room where everyone else is doing the same.

Getting up off the sofa and leaving the phone face-down on the cushion

Every two weeks, in Amsterdam.

You walk in, find a seat and say hi to whoever's next to you. Everyone's working on something of their own, so there's always something to ask about.

Walking in with a laptop, ideas now orbiting in a clean line

Then three hours on your project.

Work on your own thing, or help with someone else's. It's hard to drift off when everyone around you is focused.

Heads down, typing on a laptop at a concrete desk

At the end, people show what they made.

Only if you want to: one screen, a few minutes, no slides. Half-finished is normal, and it's often the best part of the session.

Presenting a work-in-progress app on a big screen to people sitting on beanbags

And somehow, the room becomes yours.

Someone remembers what you were working on and asks how it's going. Often that's what gets you to open the laptop again.

Four builders on one sofa under a warm lamp, laptop and notebook open, talking

The next part is yours

What are you bringing?

Maybe you want to see if your business idea actually works. Maybe you're building an app or making a game. Or you've been meaning to film a video, write something, or record a mix.

Whatever it is, bring it. We're setting aside three hours to work on our own projects, together.

A business idea
An app
A game
Your next video
Something to write
A track or mix

Around the table: 15–25 people
The whole session: Four hours
A session to come back to: Every two weeks

Build
Free
Come work on your project.
Details
Your seat shouldn't cost you anything but your energy and focus. Work alongside other members: ask questions, get help, lend a hand and get inspired as you go.
Build + Show
€10
Come build, then show the room what you're working on.
Details
At the end of every session, take the floor: hear what the room thinks, invite people to test what you're making, or give it a first public outing. It doesn't have to be finished.

Who's this for?

Got something you want to make?

You don't have to call yourself a founder or a creative. Most people who come are one of these four, or a bit of each.

Thinkers.
You have more ideas than time. Come pick one and see if it holds up.
Doers.
You'd rather try it than talk about it. Three hours is enough for a first version.
Creators.
You make things people see, play or hear. Here someone sees it before it's finished.
Builders.
You're halfway through building something and stuck on the hard part. Ask around: someone here has probably been stuck on it too.

Inside a Session

Scroll through the session ↓

Put your things down.

Find a seat. Get a drink. Ask the person next to you what they're working on. You can arrive on your own.

Four makers arriving at a long table: one sets down his laptop, one holds a notebook, one pulls out a chair, one takes her seat

Get into it.

Headphones on. Try the idea. Break it. Ask the person next to you. This is the long part of the session, and it belongs to your project.

Four makers working side by side on laptops, a notebook and a model

Show us where you got to.

Open the file. Play the clip. Hold up the thing. Tell us what you tried and where you got stuck. Unfinished is a perfectly good place to be.

A maker in blue shows her model beside a screen while the others listen

Leave yourself a next step.

Write down what you want to try next. Swap details with someone you met. Take your project home, and bring it back when you can.

The same four packing up: a laptop under one arm, a wave goodbye, a laptop going into a bag, a tote over a shoulder

Two weeks
later.

Bring your project back. Maybe it moved since the last session, maybe it didn't. Either way, it's still yours to build.

What the session adds is the push: a few hours set aside for it, people who remember what you showed them, and someone asking how it went. You make it real. We just make it easier to keep going.

Last time

“Would you use this if I launched it?”

This time

Did anyone sign up yet?

Remember that empty chair?

Bring it
to the room.

That idea from the first chapter.
It could use a session out.

Join the list for the next session in Amsterdam. We'll send the date and details when they're ready.

Where this started

Session Culture started over a beer in Amsterdam. A colleague and I had spent the day building a prototype we’d only started that morning. We were talking about how much easier it had become to turn an idea into something that worked.

Somewhere between that conversation, the bar itself and the stickers on the walls, the idea for Session Culture started taking shape. We drew the first logo on a beer mat.

That’s what I want to build: a place to work on something you care about, help each other along, and find people you want to keep making things with.

— Efe, founder