Learn · Code & Craft

Learn to build and launch your own app

A small in-person group in Singapore, six weeks, four people at most. Each of you builds your own app with an AI coding assistant, puts it online and gets your first real users.

Six weekly sessions · In person in Singapore

The assistant writes the code. You make the calls.

An AI coding assistant can write code faster than anyone. What it can’t do is decide what your app should be, notice when something feels wrong, or care whether your users enjoy it. That’s what this programme teaches.

Your hands

Direct and check

What to build, what to leave out, whether it works, and whether it feels like yours. I show you how to make those calls.

The assistant

Writes the code

It writes, fixes and explains the code, as fast as you can describe what you want.

Go from dreamer to builder

Six weekly sessions of two and a half hours

In person in Singapore. We start with where everyone’s app is, then I teach the week’s skill, and we spend most of the session building together.

Four people at most

Small enough that I can sit beside each of you and look at your app, every week.

Four reviews of your app

Between sessions, I go through your live app and send you a recorded walkthrough with written notes, within two working days.

Your own app, live

By the end, it’s on the internet with its own link, and real people are using it.

From an idea to real users

Week 1

From idea to plan

We cut your idea down to one kind of user, one problem and one main workflow. You write the brief your assistant works from, learn to give it small, clear tasks, and leave with your first screen running.

Week 2

Live on the internet

Saving versions so nothing is ever lost, putting your app online with its own link, and building your main workflow from start to finish. You leave with a link you can open on your phone.

Week 3

Accounts and data

Sign-in, a database that keeps each user’s data separate, and the privacy basics: keeping keys out of your code and collecting only what you need.

Week 4

Checking its work, and taste

Testing on phone and desktop, breaking things on purpose, and reading the errors. Then a pass over the words, spacing and colour, where your standards go in.

Week 5

Your first beta users

Choosing five to ten people, inviting them, and building what they see first: the welcome, the emails and an easy way to tell you what they think.

Week 6

Iterate, then demo day

Sorting feedback into what to fix now, what can wait and what to leave alone. Then each of you shows your live app, your users and what you changed.

Who this is for, and who it isn’t

This is for you if

You have an app idea you keep coming back to, for your business, your clients or your own life.
You’d rather learn to build it than pay someone to build it for you.
You care how it looks and feels, not only whether it works.
You can come to six sessions in Singapore, and give it a few hours between them.

This probably isn’t for you if

You want the app built for you. That’s what White-label apps are for.
You’re after a course to watch in your own time.
Your idea is a native App Store app, or handles health or financial data.

Before you register

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You need to be comfortable on a computer and happy to learn. I’ll teach you to direct the assistant, read what it did and check it.

What will I need?

A laptop, an AI coding assistant subscription and a few free accounts for saving and hosting your app. I’ll send a checklist before we start, so the first session goes on building.

What kind of app can I build?

A web app that works on phones and computers, such as a booking tool, a client portal, a tracker or a members’ area. Not native App Store apps, and nothing that stores health or financial data.

How much time will it take between sessions?

Plan on three to five hours a week. The more you build between sessions, the more we can do together in them.

What happens after the six weeks?

You keep your app, your code and everything you learned. If you want help later, extra reviews are $150 each, or I can look after the app for you.

When does it start?

The founding cohort opens soon. Register your interest and you’ll be the first to hear the dates.