# JustBuild

**Type:** resource
**Status:** Active
**Confidence:** Medium
**Focus:** founder community, AI builders, cofounder discovery, hackathons, coworking, Slack
**Primary Location:** Utah County, UT
**Utah Location:** statewide
**Region:** statewide
**Website:** https://justbuild.ing/
**Updated:** 2026-07-14
**Layout:** field-guide
**Relates:** cites [JustBuild Official Website](justbuild-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/justbuild-official-website.md · https://justbuild.ing/

## Summary

JustBuild is an open Utah community for founders, engineers, and other people who want to build with AI. Its public surface combines a Slack community with hackathons, events, and recurring coworking sessions. The official site reports more than 400 builders and says anyone can join without credentials or an existing company.

For someone seeking a cofounder, its value is not formal matching. It is repeated exposure to people doing real work: join the Slack, attend a build session, form a short-lived event team, and notice who communicates and ships well before discussing a founding relationship.

## Who It's For

- Utah founders looking for technical collaborators or other active builders.
- Engineers, designers, product thinkers, students, and operators who want to meet potential founding teammates through projects rather than networking alone.
- People without a company yet; JustBuild says an existing company is not required to join its community or events.
- Builders interested in AI-focused hackathons and coworking, especially in Utah County.

JustBuild is currently AI-centered. Someone seeking a cofounder for a nontechnical local business, a deep-science venture, or a field far outside software should treat it as one network among several rather than the default answer.

## How To Use It

1. Join the Slack from the official site and introduce yourself with what you can build, the kinds of problems you care about, and the complementary skills you hope to find.
2. Attend a coworking session or hackathon and work with prospective collaborators on a bounded project.
3. If a collaboration goes well, run a longer project or startup sprint before negotiating cofounder equity.

The useful signal is shared execution. Slack membership by itself says little about whether two people can make difficult decisions together for years.

## Open Questions

- How active is the Slack between major events, and which channels are best for team formation?
- How many teams formed through JustBuild continue working together after hackathons?
- Is the community developing any explicit cofounder-introduction or project-matching process?
- How geographically accessible are recurring sessions for builders outside the Wasatch Front?

## Evidence

- [JustBuild Official Website](justbuild-official-website.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/justbuild-official-website.md · https://justbuild.ing/

## See Also

- [Find A Cofounder In Utah](find-a-cofounder.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/find-a-cofounder.md — guide to testing a founding partnership before committing
- [Sandbox](sandbox.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/sandbox.md — a much more intensive cohort-based route to finding cofounders through sustained work
- [Nucleus Institute](nucleus-institute.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/nucleus-institute.md — commercialization and talent connector for research-backed ventures