# Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day Wrap Up

[Canonical article](https://www.ashryan.io/writing/kyoto-tech-meetup-community-hack-day-wrap-up/)

Published: 2025-11-23

Websites, LLMs, RAG systems, databases, and more at our first Community Hack Day.

![Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day at FabCafe Kyoto](https://www.ashryan.io/images/responsive/8f6604c226678aca3f61-640.webp)

Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day at FabCafe Kyoto

Yesterday we held our first Community Hack Day with the [Kyoto Tech Meetup](https://kyoto-tech.github.io/?ref=ashryan.io). This post is a quick wrap-up of the day!

## What we worked on

The idea behind the hack day is let people choose their own adventure, with an emphasis on community-oriented projects where possible.

Projects included:

- A first revision on the base Kyoto Tech Meetup website
- A genAI system for finding local businesses
- A first personal website with a MySQL-backed contact form
- Prep work for an upcoming job interview

Some teamed up, some worked solo. The only shared expectation was to make a bit of progress and share that progress at the end.

## What shipped on the website

The meetup website lives in our GitHub organization at [`kyoto-tech/kyoto-tech.github.io`](https://github.com/kyoto-tech/kyoto-tech.github.io?ref=ashryan.io) .

A lot changed in one afternoon. Here are some of themes:

- A new calendar section that auto-updates based on our Meetup.com page (h/t Aidha)
- Hero image and favicon (h/t Aidha)
- i18n support with language switcher + L10n to Japanese (h/t tcz)
- OpenGraph and meta tag work (yours truly)
- Accessibility improvements (yours truly)

![What the Kyoto Tech Meetup website looks like today](https://www.ashryan.io/images/writing/kyoto-tech-meetup-community-hack-day-wrap-up/screenshot-2025-11-23-at-13-23-03-1073fcd92c.png)

What the Kyoto Tech Meetup website looks like today

This blew right past my expectations of what we’d get done in just a few hours, especially with people trying [Astro](https://astro.build/?ref=ashryan.io) for the first time.

## Gratitude

[FabCafe Kyoto](https://fabcafe.com/jp/kyoto/?ref=ashryan.io) deserves a big thank you for hosting us. They let us annex a table for most of the day and it was just super fun to hack in a maker space where people are 3D printing and laser cutting.

## Join us next time

If this kind of thing sounds interesting, come to a future meetup. We keep things simple and welcoming for locals and travelers alike. You can find upcoming events on [the Kyoto Tech Meetup website](https://kyoto-tech.github.io/?ref=ashryan.io).