Shake
30-minute shakeout
Walk or run. Easy conversational pace on a flat route. Make the first introduction before anyone opens a laptop.
Fri 20 Nov · 10:00 AM
runwith
buildwith
connectwith
DO HARD THINGS TOGETHER
Shake & Ship: Philadelphia Marathon
a music x running x tech experience
PHILADELPHIA MARATHON WEEKEND
FRI · NOV 20 · 2026SHAKEOUT 10:00 AM · BUILD 12:00 TO 6:00 PMFREE · 100 SPOTS
Hosted by Nick Merich (GRYT) + Manny215 · Community Co-Lead: Lovable
Thirty minutes on your feet. Then build the thing you wish you had.
An easy shakeout at 10:00 AM, then an open build session from noon to six with Lovable, the tool every participant starts with. Runners next to producers next to builders. You don't need to code. Ship by 11:59 PM Saturday and a panel picked by Nick and Manny reviews every project.
01Shake02Build03Ship04Review
SPOTSFREE · CAPPED
100spots, run + build
Capped at 100 so the room stays a room. Claim yours below and Nick confirms by email. When it fills, the form becomes a waitlist.
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IN: runners · producers · builders · artists
OUT: shipped projects
40.03°N · 75.22°W39.93°N · 75.14°W26.2 mi SundayStart · Penn's LandingMi 3 · University CityMi 8 · Fairmount ParkHalf · 13.1Kelly DriveMi 20 · Manayunk turnFinish · Art MuseumShake & Ship · Fri Nov 20 · two days earlier, off course
01 · The brief
Philly shows up for its runners. We're giving that energy somewhere to go.
On marathon weekend the whole city is out cheering for people doing something hard. Shake & Ship opens Friday at 10:00 AM with a 30-minute shakeout. No pace to hit, walkers welcome. The point is to get comfortable around people you didn't know when you showed up.
After a break, the real work starts at noon: an open build session at the intersection of music and running. Producers next to runners next to builders. You don't need to code. Every participant starts in Lovable, which turns a plain-English description into a working app, so the idea is the hard part, and the person you ran next to might be the one who gets you unstuck.
Everyone has until 11:59 PM Saturday to ship. A panel of leaders picked by Nick and Manny reviews every project. Judging is the bonus. The point of the day is the people you build next to.
Come for a run. Leave with something you made.
Shake & Ship, Philadelphia
02 · Signal flow
Four stages. One output.
Join for the run, the build, or both. The shakeout is optional and the fastest way to find a teammate.
Build
Open build session
The main event. Music x running, Friday afternoon. Team up or go solo, with mentors in the room and the same starting tool for everyone: Lovable.
Fri 20 Nov · 12:00 to 6:00 PM
Ship
Submit by 11:59 PM
Keep building through Saturday. Submit a working project link and a short showcase: a minute of video or five screenshots and a paragraph.
Sat 21 Nov · 11:59 PM ET
Review
Leadership panel
Leaders picked by Nick and Manny review every submission. One winner. Everyone keeps what they made.
After the deadline
03 · Spec sheet
Technical specifications
Proposed format. Final details confirmed with partners and the venue. Registered participants get every update by email first.
- Event
- Shake & Ship: Philadelphia Marathon
- Co-Lead
- LovableConfirmed
- Format
- A music x running x tech experience. Easy shakeout, open build, ship, review.
- Kickoff
- Friday, November 20, 2026
- Shakeout
- 10:00 AM, Friday. 30 minutes. Walk or run. Optional.
- Build
- Open build session, Friday. Doors at noon, runs until 6:00 PM.
- Deadline
- 11:59 PM ET, Saturday, November 21
- Review
- Panel of leaders selected by Nick and Manny
- Venue
- Center City Philadelphia. In final selection.Address by email
- Capacity
- 100 participants across the run and the build. Free. Waitlist after that.
- Requirements
- None. No coding, pace or race registration needed. Bring a laptop if you want to build.
- Hosts
- Nick Merich (GRYT) and Manny215
- Toolkit
- Lovable for building, with credits for every registered participant. Pop Site Pro plans offered.Terms pending
- Soundtrack
- Marathon mixtape with Music Nerd. Burned CD in the bundle, Spotify playlist for runners and builders.
- Prize
- Next-marathon coverage or $500Proposed
- Ownership
- Participants keep what they make
04 · Presets
Things you could build with Lovable.
Starting points, not assignments. Each one is a music x running idea that a non-coder can get working in an afternoon by describing it to Lovable. Bring your own idea and steal the pieces.
P1Tempo
A playlist that matches your pace
Pick a goal pace, get a cadence, find songs that sit right on it. Save your paces to your account and share the list with your crew.
Try it · Pace to tempo9:00
9:00
pace /mi
167
cadence spm
167
track bpm
Illustrative demo only. Not training advice.
Lovable CloudSpotify APISign-in
P2Cue
Audio cues for intervals and splits
Sound that tells you when to push and when to back off, without looking at your wrist. Describe the workout in plain English and Lovable turns it into a timer that talks.
Lovable AIVoiceMobile web app
P3Crew
A run-crew app for routes and songs
Share the loop, the meetup time and the soundtrack with the people you run with. Google sign-in, a map, and a playlist everyone can add to.
Lovable CloudGoogle sign-inGoogle Maps
P4Score
A race-day soundtrack or recovery soundscape
Music built for mile 20, or for the hour after. Lovable now includes Google's Lyria music model, so an app can generate original soundtracks to match a mood or a split.
Lovable AILyriaAudio playback
P5RSVP
A run-club RSVP page with a song pick
What GRYT does every Saturday: name, email, one optional song for the week's playlist, a cap on the room and a confirmation email. A page like this one, built in a sitting.
Lovable CloudEmailCapacity logic
P6Liner
Liner notes for the marathon mixtape
A page for every track on the burned CD: the artist's story, where to buy the record, a QR on the sleeve that points to it. The physical object gets a digital backside.
Lovable CloudQRCustom domain
P7Splits
A voice companion that knows your race plan
Ask it mid-run: what pace do I need from here for 3:30? Lovable's built-in voice models make a real-time conversational assistant a prompt away, not an engineering project.
Lovable AIRealtime voiceMobile web app
P8Drop
An artist x crew merch drop
A limited-run pre-order page with a countdown, inventory that actually counts down, and checkout. Lovable's Stripe and Shopify integrations handle the payment part.
StripeShopifyCountdown
Lovable turns a plain-English description into a working web app with the screens, database, sign-in and hosting included. Lovable Cloud is the built-in backend, Lovable AI adds voice, music and image models with no API keys, and the code syncs to GitHub if a developer ever wants to take over. Every registered participant gets Lovable credits by email before Friday.
Open Lovable05 · Hosts
Two guys who show up for their cities.
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia sit at opposite ends of the same state and spend most of the year acting like the other one isn't there. Nick and Manny have both spent years giving people in their city a reason to show up for each other. Shake & Ship puts a run and a build in the same day so the people who show up for one meet the people who show up for the other.
Host · PittsburghHost
Nick Merich
Founder, GRYT
Started GRYT with his wife Laura in Pittsburgh: a free Saturday run on the Montour Trail where walkers, joggers and runners do hard things together every week. Produced Run Takoma With Love in DC. Has been in the Philadelphia Marathon training block all fall and will be the first one at the shakeout.
Nick was in Lovable's first cohort two years ago. He has watched it grow from a prompt box into the full-stack builder every participant will open on Friday, which is a big part of why Lovable is in the room.
GRYT / PittsburghSaturday run, every weekRun Takoma With Love / DCLovable first cohort
Co-host · PhiladelphiaCo-host
Manny215
Founder, What I Wish I Knew Foundation
Emmanuel "Manny215" Clark is Philadelphia born and building for it. A recording artist and community organizer, he founded the What I Wish I Knew Foundation in 2019 to pay forward the lessons he wishes someone had handed him: economic skills, conflict resolution, a reason to stay in the game. The Philadelphia Eagles named him their 2025 Inspire Change Changemaker.
Manny brings the city: the people, the places and the reason the shakeout starts here and not in a hotel lobby. The four words he gives students apply to the build too: commit, execute, discipline, expand.
Philadelphia / 215What I Wish I Knew Foundation2025 Inspire Change Changemaker215Apparel
How it came together · 01
A run that always ends with "what are you working on?"
GRYT's Saturday run is free and ends with coffee, and the conversation after the miles kept turning into side projects. Nick wanted a day where that second half had tools, time and a deadline.
How it came together · 02
Lovable said yes in August
Lovable approved Shake & Ship as a GRYT x Lovable event on August 14 and signed on as Community Co-Lead: the starting tool for every builder, with credits for every participant.
How it came together · 03
Manny made it Philly
A run in a hotel lobby is a hotel run. Manny's community work across the city is why the shakeout starts on Philadelphia pavement, with Philadelphia people, on the Friday the whole city is thinking about 26.2.
Review panel
Leaders picked by Nick and Manny
Names shared once each reviewer confirms. Judging is the bonus. The point of the day is the people you build next to.
Mixtape collaborators
Music Nerd
Pete Rango, C.Y. and Jade from Music Nerd are building the marathon mixtape and playlist with us.
Manny participates as an individual co-host. No Philadelphia Eagles or NFL sponsorship or endorsement is implied.
06 · For brands
Brands: here is exactly how to be part of it.
Up to 100 runners, producers, builders and artists in one room on the Friday of marathon weekend, with the whole city watching people do hard things. This close to the date, product, presence and prizes are the fastest way in. Cash is welcome too. One brand per category.
A · What you bring
Something the room can use
- Product for up to 100 people: hydration, fuel, finish food, coffee, post-run NA drinks, daily nutrition.
- Presence: a table or a demo during the build, or a person at the shakeout finish.
- Prizes: one unit, credits or coverage for the winning project.
- Bundle inserts: a card, code or sample in the merch bundle.
- Cash toward the venue and the day, if your timeline allows it.
B · What you get
A real role in the day, not a logo on a banner
- Named slot on this page and in the kickoff and showcase moments.
- Product in hands of the exact people you want: runners who build, builders who run.
- Content: an announcement post, three Story frames, one edited recap and ten photo selects per partner.
- The recap: attendance, projects shipped and photos, delivered by December 4.
- A 30-day follow-up on the people and projects that came out of it.
C · How to say yes
Three steps, one email
- 01Email Nick with your category and what you can bring. He replies personally.
- 02Yes or no by Wednesday, November 12, so we can print it, pack it and post it.
- 03You get the RSVP count on November 17, then the recap by December 4.
Open:EnergyFinish foodCoffeePost-run NACapture + wearableDaily nutritionAudioBundle insertPrizeIn discussion:HydrationConfirmed:Lovable
07 · Partner slots
Lovable co-leads. The rest are open.
One brand per category. Pick a slot to see what you bring, where it shows up and what comes back to you.
S1Lovable
Community Co-Lead
with GRYT + Manny215
Lovable co-leads Shake & Ship with GRYT and Manny215. Every builder in the room starts with Lovable.
- Visible role
- Named co-presenter with GRYT and Manny215, with a moment at kickoff and the showcase.
- In the build
- Lovable is the starting tool for every participant, with credits for every registered builder.
- Content
- 1 announcement, 3 Story frames, 1 edited recap and 10 photo selects.
- Follow-through
- Activation report and a 30-day community update.
09 · Output levels
Something made. Someone to keep going with.
Planning targets, not registrations or guarantees. The cap is the only hard number.
100
Spots
Across the run and the build. Capped.
20
Projects
Submitted by the deadline
30
Showcases
Published within 7 days
15
Reconnect
At the follow-up gathering
10 · After the deadline
Give the connection somewhere to go.
- Sat 21 Nov · 11:59 PM
Submissions close.
Project link plus a short showcase.
- Review
The panel reviews every project.
Winner announced.
- By 04 Dec
Partner activation report delivered.
Attendance, projects shipped, photos.
- +30 days
Check in on people, projects and connections.
The follow-up gathering, in person or on a call.
11 · Claim your spot
Help Philadelphia make something together.
Free. One hundred spots across the run and the build, so the room stays the kind of room where you meet everyone. Tell us how you're joining and we'll email you the venue address, the schedule and your Lovable credits before Friday.
Can't make the run? Come at noon. Can't stay for the build? Come at ten. Both is best.
100spots · free · confirmed by email
Brands and partners
Lovable is our Community Co-Lead. Open slots: energy, finish food and coffee, post-run NA, capture and wearable, daily nutrition, audio, bundle inserts and the prize. Email your category and what you can bring. Yes or no by November 12.
Nick Merich · Founder, GRYT