It started at a Waffle House.
A friend of mine carried an idea in his head for ten years. He put time to it and some money to it, but he didn't know how to code and didn't want to invest the money that traditional development required to get him to a prototype. We had discussed it years ago, but it was just an idea.
When I started to get into AI, I remembered that meeting and I brought it up. We met at a Waffle House, scribbled the core of his idea on a napkin, and then we talked it out on a Zoom call as I vibe coded the prototype. We identified the data we wanted, built the interface, wired it together, and then launched a prototype that worked in about 8 hours.
That single moment—the shocked look on his face when he realized that we could do this, that he could do this—is why Napkin Sessions exist. Sometimes you don't need a roadmap. You need ignition.
