FirstToShip
A course for people who never ship

You've been stuck long enough. Ship it.

A short, opinionated course that takes you from an idea folder to a live product with Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex. Five modules. One week. One URL you can send to someone.

Get FirstToShip · $99

One-time payment · lifetime access

What you leave with

  • A scoped, one-sentence product you can build in a week
  • A working repo built with Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex
  • A live URL you can send to a real person
  • A checklist that catches vibe-coding bugs before your users do

The diagnosis

Why smart people never ship

It is almost never a skill problem. It is a scope, sequencing, and momentum problem. The course removes exactly those three.

  1. 01

    The idea keeps growing

    Every week you add a feature and the finish line moves with it. Scope is the real deadline.

  2. 02

    You can prompt, but you can't finish

    The agent builds 80% fast. The last 20%, auth, deploy, bugs, polish, is where projects die.

  3. 03

    No one is looking

    With no deadline and no users, later is always easiest. The course gives you both.

Path A · The main path

Build it with an agent that already knows how to code.

You do not need to learn to code from scratch. You need a repeatable way to direct an AI coding agent so it builds the right thing, and a plan for the parts the agent will not do for you: scoping, shipping, and checking its work.

Pick one tool in M0. Every module after that gives you the exact prompts, commands, and checkpoints for it.

See the curriculum

Pick one in M0

  • Cursor

    Editor + agent one keystroke away, diffs in front of you.

  • Claude Code

    Terminal agent that reads the whole repo and handles multi-file changes.

  • Codex

    CLI + cloud agent that keeps working after you close the laptop.

Not sure which? M0 has a two-minute picker. You can switch later, the method is the same.

The curriculum

Five modules. Each one ends with something you can point at.

Skip nothing. The order is the point. A few hours of reading, one week of doing.

  1. M0· 20 min

    Setup and tool picker

    Tool installed → first commit

  2. M1· 30 min

    Idea and scope

    Idea folder → one-sentence brief

  3. M2· 45 min

    Build with an agent

    BRIEF.md → working local app

  4. M3· 30 min

    Make it real

    Local app → live URL

  5. M4· 40 min checklist

    Ship day

    Live URL → checked and polished

Pricing

Path A · Recommended

The FirstToShip course

  • All five modules, M0 to M4, with the exact prompts and commands
  • Tool-specific setup for Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex
  • The vibe-coded checklist: what to verify before real users touch it
  • Lifetime access, including every future update
$99once

No subscription. No upsells inside.

Get FirstToShip · $99

Path B · If you never want a codebase. For an internal tool or a quick prototype, a hosted builder like Base44 ↗ can get you an app from a description. You give up control and portability, so we only suggest it when Path A is overkill.

Affiliate link. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Path A is still the one we teach.

The difference between stuck and shipped is one week.

Start M0 tonight. Send a link by next weekend.