10-week programme · Intake starts 5th October

Stop waiting for a technical co-founder.Own your code.

A 10-week programme for founders and vibe coders who want to genuinely build, deploy and run their own web app — with AI as their development partner. High-code. Real architecture. Shipped to production.

No dev background required Weekly live sessions Ship by week 10
your-app / deploy.sh
$ git push origin main
→ CI/CD triggered on GitHub Actions
→ Tests passing ✓
→ Deploying to Railway…
$ curl https://yourapp.com/health
200 OK · stripe.connected · db.ready
$ ./ship-it --to production
The wall you hit

AI got you 60% of the way. The rest is real.

Your prototype won't leave localhost

You've vibecoded something that works on your laptop. But domains, DNS, SSL, auth and payments are a wall you can't see over.

AI keeps breaking your own code

One prompt fixes a bug, the next unravels something else. Without real architecture in your head, every session is a coin flip.

You're waiting for someone else

Cold-emailing technical co-founders. Overpaying agencies. Watching your idea sit still while other people ship theirs.

What you'll ship

Not a practice build. A live web app.

By week 10 you have a real, deployed application on your own domain — with auth, payments and monitoring — and the architectural understanding to keep building it.

A real full-stack app

React + TypeScript on the front, Node + Express + MongoDB on the back. Not a Bolt export, not a walled prototype — code you own end to end.

Live on your own domain

Buy the domain, configure DNS and SSL, deploy to a real host on Railway, wire GitHub Actions CI/CD. Push to main, ship to production.

Auth that actually works

Sign-up, login, protected routes, sessions. Clerk integrated cleanly so real users can sign in from day one.

Payments live

Stripe wired in end-to-end. Subscriptions, one-off charges, webhooks — your app can take money before the cohort ends.

AI as your dev partner

Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot used the way senior devs use them — with conventions, guardrails and a CLAUDE.md that keeps AI on-rails.

Production hygiene

Sentry monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, security basics. The unsexy stuff that keeps a real app from falling over.

Programme Outline

Every lesson, mapped out

Click any module to expand the full list of topics.

>_ technical-solopreneur / curriculum.tree
  • Test the idea, choose the stack, scope an MVP you can actually ship in 10 weeks.

    • Validating your idea and finding a niche
    • Choosing a tech stack for a solo builder
    • MVP scoping and tradeoffs
    • How the layers of a web application fit together
  • Work with Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot as a genuine development partner, not a code generator.

    • AI coding foundations and prompting
    • Advanced AI coding workflows and CLAUDE.md conventions
    • Catching and correcting AI mistakes
    • Using AI for DevOps and infrastructure tasks
  • The core of a modern web app — React + TypeScript on the front, Node + Express + MongoDB on the back.

    • React + TypeScript, TanStack Router & Query
    • Node + Express APIs, MongoDB + Mongoose
    • Forms, validation and data persistence
    • Authentication with Clerk, filtering, sorting and pagination
  • Domains, DNS, SSL, CI/CD, monitoring, backups and payments — the parts most tutorials skip.

    • Railway deploys and PaaS trade-offs
    • GitHub Actions CI/CD and security best practices
    • Sentry monitoring, backups and disaster recovery
    • Stripe payments integration
Who this is for

Builders, not spectators.

This is a genuine, high-code programme. It's not a no-code tour and it's not a "learn to code" bootcamp aimed at a junior dev job. It's for people who want to ship their own product.

  • Founders with a product or idea who want to build it themselves instead of hiring a dev team
  • Vibe coders who've been shipping with AI and want to genuinely understand the architecture underneath
  • Anyone who wants to ship something real — with auth, payments and real hosting — entirely on their own
Where it takes you

The paths this opens

Technical Founder

Build and ship your own product without hiring a dev team. Move from idea to a live, paying application on your own terms.

Indie Hacker

Run a portfolio of small SaaS products yourself — you own the code, the infrastructure and the roadmap.

Technical Co-founder

Bring genuine engineering credibility to a co-founding team. Read, review and ship real code, not just talk to developers.

First cohort · Australia & NZ · Intake 5th October

Get first pick of the inaugural cohort.

Introductory pricing: $2,500 for the first cohort. Waitlist members see enrolment details first and get founder pricing before the programme opens publicly.

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FAQ

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