DH-002 · Mission Report 002
DevHouse Room #2
Thursday, July 30, 2026 · 7:00–9:00 PM
Apollo Coalition · MidCity District · Huntsville, AL
They came back.
A month after DevHouse opened its doors, builders returned to Apollo Coalition. Some had been there in June. Others were walking into DevHouse for the first time.
By seven, name tags were going on, laptops were opening, and people were finding their way into conversations. Projects came back into the room. So did a little more structure — enough to give someone a reason to leave the corner they already knew.
People still remained the point.
From the record
Recorded artifacts from Room #2. Digital check-ins are not a complete attendance count.
13
Digital check-ins
10
Builder Passport submissions
9
Completed passports
46
Photographs of Room #2
7:00 PM — Doors open · Projects and conversations through the evening · 9:00 PM — Official close
Arrival
Returning builders mixed with people walking into DevHouse for the first time.
A second room
We didn't know if people would come back.
They did.
A project on a table made conversation easier. You could walk over, ask a question, and start with what someone was building instead of what they did for a living. The Builder Passport added just enough structure for people to move through the room and meet someone they didn't already know.
The Passport helped people get moving. After a while, nobody really needed it. By the second half of the evening, someone was always leaning over a laptop, and another conversation was starting a few feet away.
Room in motion
Projects started the conversations. The rest happened from there.
Builder Passport
Room #2 introduced the Builder Passport as a reason for builders to move through the room, meet people, find projects, and participate.
10 submissions were recorded. 9 passports were completed.
AirTag drawing
Builders who completed the Room #2 missions were entered into a drawing for an Apple AirTag. Victoria Ross was selected as the winner at the end of the night.
Later in the evening
What was being built
Projects tied to people we can place in Room #2 from the night's records.
Prove It
Identity-based accountability — Joshua Price
Ape Outfitters
Live apparel creation — Evan Brock
Live room soundtrack
Maker / creative tech station — Dillon Spicer
Strings for Light
Music as an excuse for humans to talk to one another again
AgTech + AI
Urban agriculture infrastructure — Larry Nicholas
The Innovation Map
Connecting who's building across Alabama — Rochelle Silveira
gBETA Huntsville · gener8tor
Early-stage founder support — Nathan Stewart
Inland food hub
B2B AI platform for food systems — Hunter Lawrence
Early-stage SaaS
Shipping with other builders — Victoria Ross
Research-driven art
Interactive gallery & community projects — Neville Simpson
AI company in motion
Xavier Mikel
DevHouse HSV
The room itself — Ben Tankersley
Builders documented in the digital check-in record
Ben Tankersley · Dillon Spicer · Evan Brock · Hunter Lawrence · Joshua Price · Larry Nicholas · Micah Rice · Nathan Stewart · Neville Simpson · Rochelle Silveira · Strings for Light · Victoria Ross · Xavier Mikel
13 digital check-ins were recorded. This is not a complete attendance roll.
What came next
The first room proved people would show up. The second showed they would come back. For Room #3, we're trying something different.
DevHouse Draft '26
Draft Night · Thursday, August 27, 2026 · 7:00–9:00 PM · Apollo Coalition
Part fantasy football, part builder challenge — and a little more competitive than a community meetup has any business being.
Make your first pick. Bring somebody worth knowing.
If your first-time pick checks in and names you as the person who brought them, you earn Draft fantasy points for bringing them — and they can play the Room #3 Game Card for the Bambu Lab A1.