# Prototype

Concept · [Product](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/product)

Also called: proof of concept, POC, demo, clickable prototype

An early, rough version of a product made to test an idea or show others what you mean. It can look real without fully working.

**For example:** A [founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) makes a set of screens you can tap through on a phone. Nothing is saved and no accounts exist, but testers can react to the idea.

## Connects to (29)

- [Wireframe](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/wireframe): A simple outline drawing of a screen that shows where things go, without colors or finished design.
- [MVP](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/mvp): Minimum viable product.
- [Vibe coding](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/vibe-coding): Building software by describing what you want to an AI tool and accepting the code it writes, often without reading that code closely.
- [Pilot](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/pilot): A small, time-limited trial of a product with one customer, run to learn whether the product works for that customer before a full contract.
- [Hard tech](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hard-tech): Companies whose product rests on physical engineering or new science, such as machines, materials or devices.
- [UX / UI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ux-ui): UI, the user interface, is what people see and tap on the screen.
- [Open source hardware](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/open-source-hardware): Physical products whose design files are published so anyone can study, change, make and sell the design or hardware based on it.
- [Lovable](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/lovable): An AI app builder.
- [Bubble](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bubble): A no-code app builder made by Bubble Group.
- [Figma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/figma): A collaborative design tool.
- [Makerspace](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/makerspace): A shared workshop with tools such as 3D printers, laser cutters and electronics benches that members can use.
- [STEM Intern Partnership](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ocast-stem-intern-partnership): An OCAST program that helps Oklahoma companies pay science and technology students to work as interns on innovation projects.
- [Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-manufacturing-alliance): A statewide nonprofit network helping manufacturers adopt technology, develop their workforce and improve operations.
- [Tom Love Innovation Hub](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tom-love-innovation-hub): The University of Oklahoma's innovation center in Norman.
- [OSU New Product Development Center](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/osu-new-product-development-center): An engineering outreach unit of Oklahoma State University that helps Oklahoma inventors and small manufacturers develop new products.
- [Fab Lab Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/fab-lab-tulsa): A nonprofit makerspace in Tulsa.
- [OKC Open Source Hardware](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/okc-open-source-hardware): An Oklahoma City user group in the Techlahoma network for people who build open source hardware and electronics.
- [Design concept](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/design-concept): The shared picture of what is being built, held by you and by the agent, separate from any document or code.
- [Grilling](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/grilling): Having an agent question you one decision at a time until the plan is clear, before any building starts.
- [CAD](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cad): Computer-aided design.
- [Hackathon](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hackathon): An event, often a day or a weekend, where people form teams and build a working project from scratch, then show it at the end.
- [ChatGPT Sites](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/chatgpt-sites): A ChatGPT and Codex feature for creating, previewing, publishing and sharing simple websites and web apps, which OpenAI hosts.
- [Raspberry Pi](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/raspberry-pi): A small, low-cost computer on a single board, used for learning, prototypes and sensors.
- [Arduino](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/arduino): An open-source electronics platform of small boards and free software for building devices that read sensors and control lights and motors.
- [Project 3810](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/project-3810): A product innovation hub in a former factory in Oklahoma City, with a makerspace, shop spaces, workspaces and incubator companies.
- [Hurricane Hackathon](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hurricane-hackathon): A 24-hour hackathon for University of Tulsa students, run by the university's AI and machine learning student club and sponsored by its…
- [Maker Faire Tulsa](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/maker-faire-tulsa): A yearly family-friendly show and tell in Tulsa where engineers, artists, scientists and crafters show what they have made.
- [v0](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/v0): Vercel's AI app builder.
- [Bolt](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bolt): StackBlitz's AI app builder at bolt.new.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/prototype