Hands-on workshop · Full day (5h) · No coding experience required
You've never opened a terminal. You've never deployed an app. By the end of today, you'll have a real, working product live on the internet at a URL you can share — built by you, with AI doing the coding under your direction.
This is not a "look what AI can do" demo. This is you, building your own thing, on your own machine, and deploying it. The same path I walked from non-coder to shipping products — taught the way I learned it.
What we'll do
Hour 1 — Decide what to build
Scoping a real product you actually want to exist. Not a toy example. We'll compress a product discovery session into a focused hour so you leave this block with a clear, buildable MVP — not a wishlist.
Hour 2 — Setup & directing AI properly
Your environment: Claude Code, Railway, Supabase, the opinionated stack that works. Then the part most people skip: writing a proper CLAUDE.md — the instruction file that turns AI from a random code generator into a disciplined coding partner that follows your rules.
Hours 3–5 — Build and ship
Working in pairs or small groups, you direct Claude Code to build your product. I rotate between groups. You'll learn what to ask for, how to review what AI produces, when to push back, how to debug when something breaks — and how to deploy it live.
What you walk out with

A deployed web app at a live URL — something real, that you made, that you can show people
A working Claude Code setup on your own machine, reusable for every future project
A battle-tested CLAUDE.md template and setup you can apply tomorrow to your next idea
The core skill: directing AI to build things, not waiting for a developer to find time for you

Who this is for

UX designers who are tired of handing off mockups and want to ship functional prototypes — or real products — themselves
Product managers who want to stop describing features in Jira and start building them
Founders who've been told "we'll build it when we hire a dev" and are done waiting
Anyone non-technical who suspects the old rule — "you need to hire engineers to build software" — stopped being true, and wants proof

What to bring

A laptop (any modern Mac or Windows machine)
A product idea you actually care about (optional but strongly recommended)
Willingness to be uncomfortable for the first hour — setup is the hardest part, and we'll get through it together

Soft prerequisites
Create free accounts at Railway, Supabase, and Anthropic before the workshop if you can. If you don't, we'll sort it on the day — but starting with accounts ready means more time building.
Why I can teach this
I came to coding through exactly this path — non-coder founder who learned to ship real products by directing Claude Code. What you'll learn isn't theory; it's the working method I use in my actual business, compressed into a day.