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Vibe Coding Products For Scrappy Founders
A course for non-developers building products with AI. You’ll learn to supervise the code your AI writes, so the app doesn’t fall apart at the last 5 percent. Every Founder Seat includes a 30-minute 1:1 with me before the course starts, so the lessons map to your actual project.
Content unlocks June 22, 2026. Full refund until then.
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Intro video coming this week
Three ways the build is breaking right now.
You probably know which of these you’re in. Most people are in two.
The Loop.
“I ask the dumba** again, state the issue, no logs, it says try this code now, I do that, nope, zero logs produced again, and this goes on over and over again.”
— r/ChatGPTCoding
You’re burning credits going in circles, and the AI is confidently wrong about the same fix in three different ways.
Random Failures.
“Security is honestly the thing that keeps me up at night. I’m a sparky not a developer so I have no idea what I’m missing.”
— @heyb3n_
It shipped, it demoed, and now strangers are writing to your database and your API bill is doing things you can’t explain.
Change-and-Break.
“Keeps breaking other parts of the code.”
— founder, Reddit
Every fix introduces two new bugs because nothing is isolated, and you don’t fully understand your own code well enough to stop the cascade.
None of this means you picked the wrong tool. It means you’re missing the skill nobody sold you.
You don’t need to become a developer. You need to know what to ask for and what to look for.
84 percent of developers use AI coding tools daily. Only 27 percent trust the output without review. (Industry survey.)
If working developers won’t trust AI without reviewing it, the answer for a non-developer is not to trust harder. It’s to review better.
That skill has a name. Supervision. The course teaches it as a loop you run on every meaningful change. You start by spotting what the AI actually got wrong, which is usually not what it claims is wrong. From there you translate the problem into language the AI can act on, because vague prompts produce vague fixes. Then you verify the fix did what it claimed, before you let it back into the codebase. None of those moves is hard on its own. The discipline is running all three, every time, instead of accepting whatever the AI hands back.
The frame that makes this click is treating your AI like a junior developer. Fast, eager, occasionally lying about what it just did. Your job isn’t to out-code it. Your job is to be the adult in the room.
“Every time you accept AI output without verification, you incur a debt that has to be paid later.” That’s Addy Osmani’s Trust Debt. The course is how you stop accruing it.
Here’s what changes when you can do that.
After the course, three things stop happening to you.
Not “you’ll feel more confident.” Specific things you stop doing.
After
You stop burning credits in the loop.
When the AI runs in circles, you know how to make it add logging, force a smaller decomposition, and break the cycle in two prompts instead of twenty.
After
Your app stops failing after demo week.
Up to 40 percent of AI-generated queries are vulnerable to SQL injection. You learn the small set of things to check for before you ship, so the security holes don’t ship with you.
After
Changes stop breaking the rest of the app.
You learn to prompt the AI into modular structure on purpose, using the Stack Elevator, so the next change you make doesn’t take down two things you already shipped.
This is what I do every day. It’s what the course teaches.
WordPress engineer since 2015.
Founder, Novatorius.
Building Siren Affiliates.
I wrote this course because I’m already answering these questions every morning on Reddit.
I get up at 6 AM and spend an hour on Reddit answering exactly the questions the three cards above describe. Some of these conversations have been going on for months.
I’ve been a WordPress engineer since 2015. I built most of Siren Affiliates in that early-morning power hour, before AI existed. It’s the same hour I now spend answering scrappy founders who are stuck somewhere between magic and cliff. The course is the productized version of what I’m already saying every day in public.
What I actually use, daily, is what the course teaches. The patterns library is the part I reach for first, the set of prompt and review habits that keep the AI from sliding into spaghetti in the first place. Underneath that sits the Stack Elevator, which is the architecture pattern I use to keep Core, Service, and Platform layers honest, with dependencies flowing downward only. When a real change goes in, I run it past a multi-agent PR audit where six or seven agents check that the AI’s work meets standards before I trust it. None of this was invented to fill a curriculum. It’s what’s on my screen right now.
For what it’s worth, my pre-AI WordPress plugin course cleared $3,000 on a launch I didn’t work particularly hard at. Siren’s launch netted around $8,000 from roughly 80 licenses through my personal network. I’m not pitching myself as the genius. I’m the person who’s been quietly shipping for ten years and is finally writing it down.
If that sounds like the kind of teacher you want, this is what a Founder Seat gets you.
20 Founder Seats. Lowest price the course will ever sell at. Includes a 30-minute 1:1 with me before it starts.
The Founder Seat is $179, and it includes a 30-minute 1:1 with me before the course opens. That call is where I hear what you’re actually building, what’s already broken, and which parts of the course matter most for your situation. It’s the move that makes this not feel like a recorded course you watch on 2x.
After 20 seats, the price goes to $279. After 50, it goes to $379.
Founder Seat
Pre-order pricing. 20 founder seats. Includes a 30-minute 1:1 with me before content unlocks so I can tailor the course to what you’re stuck on.
Course unlocks June 22, 2026.
Full refunds open until content unlocks on June 22, 2026. Once content unlocks, refunds close.
Before you click, two things this course does not do.
This course will not get you users, and it will not make your app pretty.
I’d rather tell you now than have you find out in week three.
If nobody is using your app, this won’t fix that.
Distribution, validation, and retention are a different problem and they deserve a different answer. (The Valley of Despair concept here is @atmoio’s, and it’s the right name for it.) If your problem is that nobody’s signing up, this course is not your answer.
Your app will work. It may not be pretty.
The course doesn’t teach React, CSS, or design. If your AI happens to design well, great. If not, your app will be functional and ugly, and that’s a fair trade for what this course actually teaches you to do.
What is in scope is in the syllabus below.
Seven sections, one closing lesson. Built to be done alongside your actual project.
The course is sequenced so each section lands a single supervision move. You finish the section, you try it on your own project, and the next section builds on what just worked. The closing lesson walks you through rebuilding from your current proof of concept with the patterns in hand.
Architectural foundation
Supporting infrastructure
Project decomposition
Git, GitHub, and PRs as the review surface
Pattern thinking
Verification
Deployment
Closing
The questions I get asked the most before people sign up.
Yes. The course teaches you to supervise code, not write it. If you’ve shipped or are mid-build with Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, or Claude, and you can read what comes back well enough to follow along, you’re the audience.
Yes, and that’s the most common starting point. The closing lesson walks you through rebuilding from your existing proof of concept with the patterns the course teaches. The 1:1 interview before the course is where I’ll tell you which sections to weight heaviest for your specific situation.
Yes. The skills the course teaches aren’t tied to a specific AI tool. They’re about how you prompt, review, and structure work across any tool that will write code for you.
Monday, June 22, 2026. You pay now, you’re enrolled now, and the content opens on that date. Founder Seats also get a 30-minute 1:1 with me scheduled before the start.
The next 30 seats are $279, and after that it goes to $379. The 1:1 interview is only included with the Founder Seat tier.
Full refunds open until content unlocks on June 22, 2026. Once content unlocks, refunds close.
You already built the demo. Finish the product.
Learn to supervise the AI so the last 5 percent stops eating you alive. 20 Founder Seats. The first one might be yours.