Build and Ship Your Own App with Claude Code
Go from an idea to a live app on your own domain, with sign-ups, a database, AI features and Stripe payments, built end to end with Claude Code.
What you will learn
- Set up a professional toolchain from scratch: terminal, Node, Git, GitHub, VS Code and Claude Code
- Cut a big idea down to one version 1 that ships, then turn it into a spec Claude can build from
- Give Claude project rules and a definition of done, so it checks its own work instead of leaving you to find the mess
- Design a landing page and dashboard that look deliberate, and work properly on a phone
- Store real data in a cloud Postgres database, with create, edit and delete that cannot lose anything
- Add email and Google sign-in, and make every row in your database belong to exactly one person
- Ship an AI feature that streams its answer, runs on free Google Cloud credit, and has a spending cap
- Take payments with Stripe: a free tier that runs out, an upgrade screen, and access that flips the moment money lands
- Deploy to Vercel, connect your own domain, send real email, and keep your keys out of GitHub
- Read an error without panicking, undo anything, and know when to stop prompting and replan
Curriculum
- What You Are Building
- Terminal Basics: The Commands You Actually Need
- Install Node.js and npm
- Install Git
- GitHub and Repositories
- Install VS Code
- Install Claude Code
- Connect Your Claude Account and Test Everything
Requirements
- A computer running Windows or macOS, and no coding experience. The course starts at the terminal
- A Claude account with Claude Code access
- An idea for an app, even a rough one. Module 3 helps you cut it down
- Free tiers cover most of it. A domain and modest AI usage are the only likely costs
About this course
This is the long one. Twelve modules that take you from a computer with nothing installed to a working product a stranger can sign up for and pay you real money to use.
You do not learn to code. You learn to direct Claude Code properly, which is a different and more valuable skill. Most people prompting their way to an app hit the same wall around eighty percent: every fix breaks something else. The reason is almost never the model. It is that nothing wrote down what the app is meant to do.
So you build the boring foundation first. A real spec, project rules Claude reads every session, a definition of done it checks itself against, and undo systems you have actually practised with. Then the features go on top and stay stable.
Along the way you get the pieces real products need and tutorials skip: users who own their own data, AI that streams and cannot run up an unlimited bill, file uploads, PDF export, a free tier that converts, payments verified end to end with a test card, a custom domain with a padlock, and email that reaches the inbox.
The last module is about real users. Ten people invited by name, a feedback box, a smoke test, and a shipping loop you can repeat every week without breaking what already works.
Who this course is for
- Founders who keep paying developers for a version of an idea they could now build themselves
- Business owners who need one specific tool that no off-the-shelf product quite does
- Freelancers and consultants who want to sell a product rather than only their hours
- Anyone who prompted their way to a half-working app and got stuck at the eighty percent wall
Nothing to lose here.
This class costs nothing and needs no card. Make an account, start it now, and see whether the way I build is the way you want to build.