From Hungry to Shipped: Building Kivoon Solo with Claude
Event Details Day 1 on the Isle of Man. Hungry. No clue how to get to McDonald's. That problem turned into Kivoon — a public transit app for the Island, with timetables, live tracking, and an automated content engine. Built solo, across a few weekends, with Claude as the team. In this Launchpad talk, Itamar walks through the whole story: spotting the problem (and why his wife kept asking about buses), wrangling the raw public transit data, getting it into an app that actually works, and setting up a marketing engine that posts Reels and blog content on its own. What you'll see: How a real, scrappy problem became a shipped product The actual prompts and decisions that moved Kivoon forward How to use Claude as your team — not just an autocomplete The self-improvement loop powering Kivoon, including the real-time vehicle matcher How marketing was automated end-to-end (Reels, blog, the lot) Who's this for? Anyone curious about building solo with AI — founders, developers, students, or anyone who's ever wondered whether they could actually ship the thing in their head. Who is Itamar Bareket? Itamar is an Isle of Man–based builder and the creator of Kivoon, a public transit app with timetables, live tracking, and an automated content engine — built solo over a handful of weekends. Itamar is also the CTO of MobiMatter. Find him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamar-bareket/ Kivoon: https://kivoon.im/ MobiMatter: https://mobimatter.com/ When: Wednesday, 20 May 2026, 5:30pm Where: Launchpad, Hillary House, Prospect Hill, Douglas, IM1 1EQ Cost: Free — registration required Come hungry (for ideas, this time).
