Models
The intelligence layer: frontier models for hard work, cheaper models for volume once the product needs them.
Nights and weekends, no code required
Ship your first working AI product in 30 days.
A practical course and community for employed non-coders building nights and weekends.
- AI ecosystem explained
- Harness workflow
- Landing page and Stripe path
- First 10 users
The product
A 30-day path from confused beginner to shipped product.
The course is built around the exact guide skeleton in this project: demystify the AI stack, choose a practical idea, build with a harness, ship, and find the first users.
Module 0
AI Ecosystem
You can tell whether a product is a model, a harness, or an access layer, and you know what to buy first.
Open lesson Days 1-3The Stack
A working builder setup: harness, repo folder, deployment account, payment path, and support inbox plan.
Open lesson Week 1Idea
One scoped product idea, five validation conversations, and a yes/no decision to build.
Open lesson Week 2Build
A functioning prototype with a clear manual test checklist and a known set of missing pieces.
Open lesson Week 3Ship
A public URL with a clear offer, a way to pay or join the waitlist, and a fallback support channel.
Open lesson Week 4Users
A lightweight distribution loop: posts, DMs, follow-ups, feedback notes, and product edits.
Open lesson After Day 30Decide
A decision memo and a next-cycle plan.
Open lessonOne frontier subscriptionOne coding harnessOne product ideaOne public URLOne first-user loop
Module 0
The whole AI ecosystem in three boxes.
This is the retention engine from the docs: the landscape changes, so members pay for a maintained map and a practical build path, not a static PDF that ages out.
Harnesses
The work layer: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex-style tools, terminals, files, tests, and repair loops.
Access
The payment and connection layer: subscriptions first, APIs when the product calls models, routers when cost matters.
Offer
Community first, guide included.
The small-MRR target points to membership, not a one-time PDF. At $35/month, roughly 100 to 150 retained members reaches the stated goal without high-ticket pressure or guru claims.
Lead magnet
The 60-Minute AI Builder Stack.
Capture the right buyer before checkout is live: employed, interested, and honest about whether they have time, a domain problem, and feedback access.
- No card details collected in interest mode
- Explicit marketing consent before follow-up
- Readiness score for segmentation
Start
Use the free stack PDF as the front door.
The lead magnet answers the first question for the employed normie buyer: what do I actually need to buy, install, and learn before I can build?
Open the starter check