Week 1 (Thursday): Ship your first product
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What you keep
How to go from a written brief to a working full-stack app, and how to write a brief that builds the right thing on the first try.
You ship
A live web app at a real URL, the first version of your capstone.
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Think Like an AI Engineer (free 10-part series)
Watch this YouTube playlist before or alongside Week 1. Plain-English foundations, how LLMs work, prompting, models, context, vibe coding, agents, workflows, and evals, so the live Lovable build clicks faster.
- 1How LLM Actually Works (in Plain English)Watch
- 2How to Prompt AI Like a Pro: The 5-Part FormulaWatch
- 3How to Pick the Right AI Model for the JobWatch
- 4Using AI With Your Files, Images and DataWatch
- 5Context Is Everything: The #1 Skill for Using AIWatch
- 6Vibe Coding for Non-Engineers (and Engineers)Watch
- 7What AI Agents Actually Are (Hype vs Reality)Watch
- 8Build AI Workflows With No Code (n8n, Zapier, Make)Watch
- 9AI Evals: How to Know If Your AI Actually WorksWatch
- 10The Fastest Way to Stay Current in AIWatch
Live session resources
Lessons
The brief is the new spec
The durable skill of the course: write a brief specific enough that the AI builds the right thing first time.
Build your app with Lovable
Turn your brief into a running app, then iterate in the prompt-and-review loop.
Data and auth, handled inside Lovable
Add sign-up, login, and persistence by describing them, no separate backend setup.
Ship to a live URL
Publish a snapshot to a live URL, remove the Lovable watermark, then prove it works for someone who is not you.
Connecting Stripe and other integrations
Three ways Lovable connects to the outside world, app connectors, chat connectors, and any API, with Stripe as your payments example.
AI features for your app
Add live AI to your app with Lovable's built-in connector: chat, summaries, RAG, voice, and more. No API keys required.
Lovable Cloud
Full-stack hosting built in: database, auth, storage, edge functions, and AI backend. No separate Supabase setup.
Design polish for a generated app
Escape the generic AI look: design tokens in your brief, Visual Editor tweaks, external components, and visual references.
Ship your product, version one
Ship a real v1 with auth, persistence, and at least one AI feature, then share for cohort feedback and post on LinkedIn with screenshots.
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