Comet Academy

Build catalogue

Pick the thing you want to exist.

These are 12 projects that fit inside the sprint. Every entry states what it costs, how long it takes and what you hold at the end. You choose one at the end of week one, and you can bring your own instead.

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Track
Level

12 builds

T101/12
Rare

The box that tells stories

A finished box you can hand to someone, and the rules you wrote for what it will and will not say.

Parts
$55
Effort
8 days
T102/12
Legendary

The reader that fits a pocket

A working reader with your books on it, and the case files you cut.

Parts
$60
Effort
9 days
T103/12
Rare

Texts with no signal

A matched pair of radios, and a walk far enough out to prove it.

Parts
$65 for the pair
Effort
7 days
T104/12
Legendary

The air you are breathing

A finished desk instrument, its case, and a week of recorded readings.

Parts
$90
Effort
9 days
T105/12
Common

The plant that texts you

A planted probe, a phone that gets the message, and a week of it working.

Parts
$35
Effort
5 days
T106/12
Rare

The fridge alarm

A sealed logger, its firmware, and a readout of the last run.

Parts
$45
Effort
6 days
T207/12
Common

What it would really cost

A working calculator and a costed go or no-go on one real product.

Capital
$0
Effort
5 days
T208/12
Rare

Find the real factory

A ranked dossier of verified suppliers, with quotes and sample notes.

Capital
$0 – $150
Effort
8 days
T309/12
Rare

Notes in, flashcards out

A deployed web application, and a deck built from your own notes.

Runs at about
$6 / month
Effort
6 days
T310/12
Common

What do I need on the final

A deployed tool, and the classmates who used it in exam week.

Runs at about
$0 / month
Effort
4 days
T311/12
Common

Photo in, spreadsheet out

A deployed web application that people outside your house can use.

Runs at about
$8 / month
Effort
5 days
T312/12
Rare

Find us an hour

A deployed tool, and a meeting that actually got arranged with it.

Runs at about
$5 / month
Effort
6 days

* About running costs

Nothing here can quietly run up a bill.

A monthly figure on a software project is an estimate at the scale one student reaches, not a quote. Before anything is published, week three sets a ceiling:

  • A hard spending cap on every provider account, set before the project goes live.
  • A billing alert at half the cap, so nothing is a surprise.
  • Free tiers first: every project in this list is designed to sit inside one at student scale.
  • A kill switch: how to take the project offline in one step if the numbers move.

Bring your own

Your own idea is welcome, on one condition.

It must fit in three weeks and it must ship. In week one you score your idea against demand, cost and time. If it scores below the line, the instructor says so, and you take one of the builds above instead. Nobody spends three weeks on something that cannot finish.