A native or web app
iOS and Android through Expo and React Native, or a web app on Next.js. Your choice, made in module 1.
Without writing code
No-code app
No-code app
development,
and the code
is yours
You will not hand-write code. Real code still gets written, by AI, under your direction, and it lives in your repository rather than inside somebody else's platform.
Cohort 06
- Starts
- Jan 11, 2027
- Applications
- Open now
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Commitment
- ~10 hrs / week
- Format
- Live, remote
- Tuition
- $2,400
01 · The distinction
Why this is not Bubble
Classic no-code builders host your app inside their ecosystem. Their pricing, their limits, their export restrictions. It works right up until you need something the platform does not do, and then it stops working permanently.
Here the output is standard React Native or Next.js code in your own repository, running on Supabase and Vercel and the app stores. You get the accessibility of not writing it yourself with none of the lock-in, and if you ever want to hand it to a developer, you can.
02 · What you build
Real applications, not configured templates
A real backend
Accounts, a database and file storage on Supabase, deployed by module 8.
Your own repository
Standard code you own outright, on infrastructure you control.
A published product
Submitted to the store in module 11 and launched in module 12.
03 · The honest limits
What this approach cannot build
Most software ideas fit this method comfortably. A few do not, and it is far cheaper to find that out now than in module 6. None of the following are limits of immature tooling. They are limits of what twelve weeks and one person can responsibly take on.
Anything holding regulated data
Patient records, lending decisions, or holding customer funds yourself. The blocker is not the build, it is compliance and liability, and PIPEDA, HIPAA and PCI are not twelve-week problems. Often you can build everything around the regulated core and integrate a provider who already carries that burden.
Real-time multiplayer and games
Game engines are a separate discipline: Unity or Unreal, physics, and holding hundreds of players in sync inside a hundred milliseconds. Turn-based and asynchronous play is workable here. Live competitive play is not.
Hardware and firmware
If your product includes a device you are also building, or speaks to one over Bluetooth at a low level, the firmware sits outside this. An app controlling existing hardware through a documented API is usually fine.
Your own trained models
Calling Claude or an existing vision API is ordinary work and well within scope. Training a model on your own dataset is a different job needing different skills, and it is not what these twelve weeks teach.
Products that only work at scale
Some ideas are worth nothing below a hundred thousand users, usually marketplaces needing dense supply on both sides from day one. The software is buildable. The distribution problem is the real one, and it is not a software problem.
Anything where the catalogue is the product
Music, film, and clinical reference apps. What stops you is licensing the library, not building the player. If you already hold the rights, this changes entirely.
The usual outcome for an idea on this list is not abandoning it. It is scoping down to the part that can ship in twelve weeks and still proves the thing worth proving. That is what module 1 is for, and it is what the free planning session is for. If your idea genuinely does not fit, you will hear so before you have paid anything.
04 · Before you apply
Questions, answered straight
Is this really no-code if AI is writing code
You will not hand-write it, but real code does get written, by AI, under your direction. That is strictly better than classic no-code: the accessibility of not writing it yourself, with none of the platform lock-in.
How is this different from Bubble or Glide
Those platforms host your app inside their ecosystem, with their pricing, their limits and their export restrictions. Here your app is standard React Native or Next.js code in your own repository, on infrastructure you control.
What if my app breaks and I cannot fix it
This is what the live format is for. You learn a debugging workflow, meaning reproduce it, ask AI to explain it, fix it, verify it. Drop-in office hours and the cohort are there when that is not enough. Getting unstuck is a taught skill, not a hope.
Can I build my specific idea
Most fit: marketplaces, social tools, trackers, booking systems, content apps, internal tools. Ideas needing custom hardware, real-time games or regulated integrations usually need scoping down to an MVP, which module 1 helps with.
What does it cost
$2,400 in full, or three monthly payments of $900, covering all twelve weeks, live sessions, recordings, Demo Day and lifetime community access. No upsells and no locked premium tier.
05 · Related
Other ways in
- 01
Build an app with AI
The founder route: you have an idea and want it shipped.
- 02
UX design course in Canada
For career changers moving into UX from another field.
- 03
AI product design course
For designers adding the AI workflow to an existing craft.
Bring the idea
Leave with the app
The planning session is free and one to one. If this is not the right fit for what you are trying to build, you will leave knowing that.
At a glance
- Cohort 06 starts
- Jan 11, 2027
- Applications
- Open now
- Tuition
- $2,400