Got to the @Lovable HQ by just asking
- No strategy
- No connections
- No preparation
Just pure curiosity. Waited under the office for the workers to come out and asked someone to give me a tour.
And it worked!
Sometimes asking opens way more doors than you may think!
5 days
0 event experience
0 sponsors
National holiday weekend
90 people signed up
This is how we pulled off a WWDC26 Watch Party in Vienna - and learned the most important startup lesson:
just ask
On the day of the event, we even walked into Red Bull and Almdudler HQ asking for drinks
They said no
But honestly, even getting the chance to ask felt like a tiny SF moment in Vienna.
It may sound delusional, but was definitely useful experience
The event happened
90 people subscribed
Founders, builders, students, and Apple fans came together to watch WWDC in Vienna
Five days earlier, none of it existed
The lesson:
A no is free
Not asking costs more
Europe is too slow at closing quick deals.
4 days ago, we decided to host an Apple WWDC26 watch party in Vienna.
70 builders and founders signed up.
Here is what every company and startup we contacted actually said:
“Too short notice. We need months to arrange this.”
And this is despite the fact that we have:
- top builders and founders
- people from outside of Austria (Czech Republic & Poland)
- target audience for tech startups
The only people who said yes were real builders who wanted to promote what they’re building.
If you want to get your product in front of top builders and founders in Europe - and you’re down to move fast - DM or reply luma.com/j3qlxfx3
just sponsored this event to show our box.ascii.dev launch vid just after the apple keynote
from quick cred check to wire in <2 hours
most europeans are slow elitists that underestimate the value of informal distribution
thankfully at Ascii we're different
europe needs to be quicker. we decided to spontaneously organize an event - 70 people signed up in 3 days - some literally fly in from Czechia and Poland - all we asked sponsors for was pizza & drinks, but here's what actually happened: