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Cohort 07 — Live · 6 weeks

Ship your
first SaaS in
six weeks.

Go from “I keep starting and quitting” to a real, paying product with its first users — in a live, six-week cohort. Not another tutorial you abandon at lesson three.

  • 4.9 from 640+ builders
  • Ship-it money-back guarantee
  • One payment · no subscription

Next cohort starts Monday, July 14. Live calls Tue & Thu, 12pm ET · 14 seats left

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Progress
48%
Shipped
Auth + DB
Next call
Thu
Your roadmap
  1. Idea & scope
  2. Design the MVP
  3. Payments & auth
  4. Build the core loop
  5. Deploy & instrument
  6. Launch day

640+ builders shipped through Cohort — now at

What you’ll walk away with

Not knowledge.
A shipped product.

Every week ends with something real in production. By Friday of week six, you have a live URL, a working checkout, and your first users.

  • Scope an idea that’s actually shippable

    Cut your “someday” idea down to a v1 you can finish in six weeks — and learn to spot the features that are killing your momentum.

  • Design a product that feels intentional

    A repeatable UI system — type, spacing, color, components — so your MVP looks like a real company built it, not a weekend hack.

  • Wire up auth, a database, and payments

    The plumbing that scares most builders, done live together: sign-in, a real schema, and Stripe Checkout taking actual money.

  • Deploy and watch what real users do

    Push to production, add analytics and error tracking, and read the first real signals so you fix what matters, not what you assume.

  • Run a launch that gets your first users

    A launch-day playbook — landing page, waitlist, the post that works — so going live means signups, not silence.

  • A network of builders who keep shipping

    A small cohort that ships alongside you and a private alumni community you keep for good — the part that outlasts the six weeks.

See how each outcome maps to a week

Six outcomes, one shipped product. Claim your seat in Cohort 07. 14 seats left

Enroll — $69

The curriculum

Six weeks,
six shipped milestones.

Two live calls a week, recorded if you miss them. Each module ends with a concrete deliverable reviewed by your instructor and peers.

  1. 01

    Find & scope your idea

    Pick a problem worth solving, validate it in a day, and ruthlessly cut scope to a v1 you can finish. Deliverable: a one-page product brief.

    5 lessons · Week 1
  2. 02

    Design the MVP

    Build a clean design system and wireframe the core screens in Figma — enough polish to feel real, not so much you stall. Deliverable: clickable prototype.

    6 lessons · Week 2
  3. 04

    Build the core loop

    Ship the one feature your product lives or dies on. Daily async reviews keep you honest and unblocked. Deliverable: the working core feature.

    6 lessons · Week 4
  4. 05

    Deploy & instrument

    Push to production on a real domain, add analytics and error tracking, and harden the rough edges before anyone sees it. Deliverable: a live, monitored app.

    5 lessons · Week 5
  5. 06

    Launch day

    Run the launch playbook as a cohort — landing page, waitlist, the announcement post — and get your first real users. Deliverable: a public launch.

    4 lessons · Week 6

33 lessons  ·  12 live build sessions  ·  lifetime access to recordings & updates

See the full syllabus

Your instructor

Maya
Castellanos

Founder · ex-Stripe design engineer

Maya has shipped twelve products in eight years — two acquired, one that quietly pays her rent. She spent four years at Stripe building the Checkout surfaces millions of businesses use, then left to teach builders the unglamorous middle: the part where most ideas die.

She’s taught six Cohorts to 640+ builders. Her whole thing is simple: you don’t need another course, you need to actually finish one — so every session ends with you pushing real code.

640+
builders taught
4 yrs
at Stripe
4.9★
avg rating

More about Maya & her work

From the last cohort

People who finally shipped.

4.9
avg across 640+ builders
I’d started this same idea four times and quit four times. Week 3 was the unlock — Stripe stopped being scary. I launched on the last day and made my first $40 that weekend. Surreal.
P
Priya NairDesigner → indie founder
The cohort format is the whole thing. Knowing 24 other people were shipping the same week I was made me show up. I went from zero backend experience to a deployed app with paying users.
M
Marcus BellFrontend dev at Retool
Best $69 I’ve spent on my career, full stop. Maya’s feedback on my launch post got me to the top of the feed and 300 signups on day one. The alumni Slack alone is worth it.
S
Sofia AlmeidaPM, now building solo

Your name belongs on this wall next cohort. Start building Monday, July 14. 14 seats left

Enroll — $69

Enroll in Cohort 07

One price.
Everything.
No upsells.

Coaches charge four figures for less. You get the full six-week live program, lifetime access to every recording and future update, and the alumni community for good — for the price of a nice dinner.

What it’s worth

Buy it piece by piece

  • 12 live build sessions with Maya6 weeks, taught live — not pre-recorded
    $900
  • Weekly 1:1-style feedback on your projectYour code, your launch post, reviewed
    $600
  • 33 lessons + starter templatesAuth, payments & deploy boilerplate
    $300
  • Lifetime recordings & future updatesEvery cohort’s improvements, free forever
    $250
  • The alumni community, for goodA room of builders who keep shipping
    $240
Total value$2,290
Your price today$69
Cohort 07 · July 14 14 seats left

$2,290 of value, today for

$69$249

Founding-cohort price · one-time · about $1.64/day for six weeks

Enroll now — secure your seat

Or pay in 3 · $23/mo, interest-free

Ship-it guarantee · 14-day money-back

Show up, do the work, and if you haven’t launched something by the end — full refund, no questions. The risk is on us.

14day refund

The risk is on us

Show up, do the work — ship, or it’s free.

If you make the live calls, do the work between them, and still haven’t launched something real by the end of week six, email us for a full refund. No forms, no hoops. We’d rather you ship than keep your $69.

Questions, answered.

Still curious? See enrollment

How much time do I need each week?

Plan for about 6–8 hours: roughly two hours of live calls plus four to six hours building your project. The builders who get the most out of it treat the live sessions as non-negotiable and do the work between them.

Do I need to already know how to code?

You should be comfortable with the basics of JavaScript and have built at least a small project before. You do not need backend, database, or payments experience — that’s exactly what weeks 3–5 teach. Total beginners tend to find it overwhelming; we’ll happily point you to a warm-up first.

What if I miss a live session?

Every call is recorded and posted within a few hours, and you keep lifetime access to all of them. Questions still get answered in the cohort Slack between sessions, so missing one live call won’t put you behind.

Is the $69 price really one-time?

Yes — one payment, no subscription, no surprise upsells. It’s the founding-cohort price and it includes lifetime access to recordings, every future update, and the alumni community. The price goes up for Cohort 08.

This is the cohort
you finish.

Cohort 07 starts Monday, July 14 with 14 seats left. Six weeks from now, you could have a live product.

Enroll — $69