Sometimes the most useful AI demo doesn’t ship with a launch event or a glossy landing page. It shows up because somebody’s kid has a geography test next week.
That’s what happened on our team this week. One of us had a kid who needed to memorize the capitals of Europe for school, and the existing drill-and-kill online quizzes weren’t doing the job. So we did what any developer-parent would do in 2026: opened an AI chat and built our own.
From bored to scoreboard
The result is a polished little browser game that beats the usual pick-the-capital-from-a-dropdown style by a mile. Maps, visuals, a bit of feedback. All built without spinning up a project, scaffolding a frontend, or wrestling a CSS grid into submission.
The threshold for “I’ll just build it myself this evening” keeps dropping. Five years ago the same idea would have meant a weekend of fiddling with Leaflet, GeoJSON, and a state machine. Now it’s a conversation.
You can see the screenshots in the original LinkedIn post .
Why this is the actual demo
A lot of the AI conversation right now is about agents, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and enterprise rollouts. All important. But the moment that tends to land hardest with non-developers is exactly this kind of thing: a parent with a small, specific, slightly annoying problem who builds the perfect solution before bedtime.
It’s also a useful reframe for learning. The existing online drills are built once, by someone who isn’t your kid, optimised for the average learner. With AI in the loop, you can tailor the thing to the actual human in front of you, their interests, their level, the visuals they respond to. The boring capitals app becomes a Pokémon-themed geography raid if that’s what gets your kid through Friday.
#lerenleukmaken
The post was tagged with #lerenleukmaken, roughly, “make learning fun.” It’s a good north star. AI’s superpower here isn’t replacing teachers or textbooks. It’s collapsing the distance between “I have an idea for how this could be better” and “here, try it, it’s running.”
If your kid has a test coming up, maybe consider what you could vibe-code together this weekend. Worst case: you both learn something. Best case: Reykjavík sticks.