Last week, we teamed up with Give(a)Go to get a room full of people together for one reason: to build AI agents. Not talk about them. Build them. Over 100 people showed up — and by the end of the night, over 100 agents had been built.
Dublin showed up
What we have learned from running these events across the world is that what makes a great event is the people who come to it. Students looking to break into startups sat next to professionals who want to get ahead in their day job, sat next to entrepreneurs who came with a specific problem in their own business they wanted to solve. All in the same room, all building with Lua.
That doesn't happen by accident. Dublin has a real concentration of ambitious, curious people with genuine talent, and the enthusiasm in that room wasn't performed. It was just there.
The ideas solved real problems
This is the thing that separates a good builder event from a forgettable one. It's not the platform or the prizes, it's whether the people in the room are solving something they actually care about. In Dublin last week, they were.
Four agents working together as a complete business — one to find potential clients, one to analyse their website, one to build them a new one, and one to do the outreach. The pitch basically writes itself: "We already built you a new website. We just need to add the finishing touches." Rather than saying "we can help you with this," they show up with something already done. That's not a side project. That's a go-to-market. And they pulled it off in a few hours using Lua's platform and Spaces to get all four agents collaborating seamlessly.
A natural-language DataOps agent that lets you drop in a CSV or Excel file, connect a data source, and have the agent understand the data, clean it, surface insights, and push everything to a live dashboard. No technical background required to use it.
Paste a YouTube link, enter your child's age, and get a full breakdown of whether the content is appropriate and what manipulation tactics — if any — are present.
A 15-year-old built a business OS connecting Stripe, Notion and other tools. It flags when payments drop, recommends how to re-engage customers, and automates social posts when products ship.
A night sky agent that tells you exactly what's visible from your location tonight — factoring in your location, the time of year, and live weather conditions. No point knowing Orion is overhead if there's cloud cover. It surfaces the best constellations and astronomical events worth looking out for, and recommends the ideal spots nearby to see them. The kind of thing that sounds simple until you realise nobody has ever just told you this in plain language before.
Other agents built on the night: a maths learning tool that assesses your level and builds a personalised curriculum, a code visibility agent that shows what your team is working on without interrupting them, an FDI lead gen tool that could genuinely sit inside something like the IDA, a stock tracker that surfaces the latest news on what you own and gives you recommendations, and a job application agent that analyses a job description, tailors your CV to match it, and finds ways to help you stand out — not just get through the door, but get noticed.
Every single one started as a problem someone in the room had already felt.
Built by everyone, not just developers
What struck us most wasn't just the technical range in the room. It was that technical and non-technical people were building side by side without it slowing anyone down. Developers could go deep through the Lua CLI, wiring up custom integrations and multi-agent architectures. Everyone else could build fully functional agents through the dashboard without touching a line of code. And they could all stay connected and work together on the Lua dashboard.
Same platform, same output, different entry point. That's what made the room work.
Teams worked together to create agents on Lua and presented their work
What Dublin showed us
The Dublin tech scene is very much alive and there's no shortage of talent. There's a narrative that Ireland is always a couple of years behind on tech adoption. Last week felt like proof that's no longer the story.
The problems people brought weren't hypothetical. The distribution they were building for: WhatsApp, the web, tools people already use every day, was practical and immediate. Nobody was building for a future that doesn't exist yet. They were solving things that cost them or someone they know real time and money right now.
Dublin has the talent. It has the enthusiasm. It just needs the right rooms to build in.
If you're a developer in Ireland who wants to start building agents, or a founder who has a workflow problem you've been putting off, this is the moment.
We're doing more of these. Watch this space.
One more thing
It wouldn't be a Lua event without having our own agents working at it. Our CTO Stefan built an agent to score everything that got built on the night — judged across technical execution, business impact, and polish. Things like code quality, how well the agent was configured, real-world usefulness, market opportunity, creativity, and UX.
