Programming · Blog · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Redoing an Event Schedule Straight from Your Phone
Simon Willison scraped a conference website and built a better interface using only his phone.
- Profession
- Developer
- Tools
- Codex, Claude Artifacts
- Source
- simonwillison.net ↗
- Country
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Report date
- July 17, 2025
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
He extracted the schedule and generated a phone-friendly agenda app.
How it went
The account gives no numbers.
Good to know
Respect the terms of the scraped site.
The prompt
I have the event schedule [paste text/JSON]. Create a single mobile-friendly HTML page with filters by day and stage and a button to favorite sessions (saved on the device).
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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