Intermediate · Free

Ship your first small app

Go from an idea to a live URL you can send to a friend, the same full loop I used to ship Fable.

5 lessons~46 min totalEnds in a live URL

What you will walk away with

A real app running on the internet at its own address, built one small slice at a time, that you can hand to someone else.

Before you start

This one sits at the top of the ladder, so it assumes you have Claude Code installed and have asked it for a change once before. If not, start with Getting Started with Claude Code and come back. You still do not need to know how to code.

1Pick something you can finish7 minAlmost no first app dies for technical reasons. It dies because it was too big on day one. How to cut an idea down to something that reaches the internet.

2Get a real app running9 minThree commands and you have a working app on your own machine. What each one does, and the four files that matter out of the hundreds you just made.

3Build it in slices11 minThe mistake is describing the whole app in one giant request. The fix is one small piece at a time, checked in the browser before you move on.

4When it breaks9 minIt will break. That is the job, not a sign you are bad at this. How to read an error, hand it over well, and never take the word fixed on trust.

5Put it on the internet10 minFrom a page only you can see to a link you can text someone, in about five minutes. Then a proper domain if you want one.

Start lesson 1 →