Vibe Coding Academy | Ship Your First SaaS with Claude Code

Jules Boiteux

Founder of Vibe Coding Academy

The 8-week bootcamp for aspiring founders who want to go from zero to a product

Anyone can vibe-code a prototype.

The hard part comes after: real users sign up and the app breaks, because it has no real security, a shaky database, and payments that only worked in testing.

This bootcamp is built around what most vibe-coding courses skip: understanding the technical workflows behind how an app is built. A solid backend and frontend, a proper database, the APIs that connect them, real payments, and solid security.

And the great thing about it? You don't need an engineering background to learn about these notions.

You may be a consultant, a PM, a Product Designer, or an entrepreneur who wants to build your first SaaS and generate revenue without relying on a developer. You bring the idea and the drive. The course gets you to a product people can actually use and pay for.

Across 8 live sessions, you build one full SaaS on your own idea, not a tutorial clone: from your first frontend prototype in Session 1, through database, APIs, auth, payments, and deployment, to Demo Day.

Cohorts are capped at 10, so Jules reviews your build personally after each session and gives feedback.

What you need? An idea of a SaaS, a Claude subscription and the will to learn by doing.

What you’ll learn

By the end, you can turn any SaaS idea into a production-ready app, built without a dev using Claude Code, one of the top AI tools

Modes, efforts, and model selection, and how to prompt Claude Code to build, not just chat
Understand what MCP is and connect Claude Code to MCP servers (Whimsical, Mobbin) to plug in the tools you need
Iterate effectively and stay in control: screenshots, pointing at a specific file, /resume to pick up work, and reading the code it writes

How a web app fits together: frontend, backend, API endpoints, and how they talk to each other
Databases done right: schema design, CRUD, and foreign keys for your own product's data
Authentication, security best practices, external APIs, and payments with Stripe

The full path, every time: PRD, design system, frontend prototype, backend, auth, payments, deployment
Ship to a live domain anyone can reach, then run the same system on your next product
Get full-time access to Emily, the agent accessible via Vibe Coding Academy's MCP server, to build any future app on your own

Understand the workflows under the hood of your app: how the pieces connect, so nothing is a black box
Because you grasp how it works, you debug fast: read an error, pinpoint the cause, fix it, and keep moving
Recover when a build goes wrong (rollback, /rewind, isolate the change) and review what the AI builds so quality is your decision, not luck

A production-grade stack the pros do use: Next.js for your app, Supabase for database and auth, Stripe for payments, Vercel for deploy
Test and debug like an engineer: Postman to probe your API endpoints, ngrok to tunnel Stripe webhooks to your local machine
Learn why each tool earns its place, so your stack is resilient and you can reason about it (and swap a piece) on your own

Learn directly from Jules

Jules Boiteux

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Founder of Vibe Coding Academy & AI educator

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Who this course is for

Founders, PMs, Product Designers, consultants, execs and growth pros who want to build and ship their first SaaS without a developer.
For you if:
✅ You have a product idea
✅ Some experience with AI, plus the basics (API, DB, frontend, backend)
✅ You learn by doing
Not for you if:
❌ You've never used AI
❌ You want a gentle AI intro
❌ You want theory, not a course you can apply right away

Prerequisites

A web SaaS idea you want to build
You bring the idea and build it for real across the 8 sessions. The course builds web SaaS, not mobile apps, so bring a web idea.
Basic technical literacy (no coding required)
You should know what an API, a database, a frontend and a backend are. No coding, CS degree, or terminal experience needed.
Motivation and the will to learn by doing
This is hands-on. You learn by building your own app every week and working through the walls you hit. Come ready to put in the reps.

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Jules Boiteux in a real-time, interactive format.

8 expert-led live sessions

1.5 hours each, with hands-on exercises. Screen-sharing, live demos and homework reviews. Every session is interactive: you practice in real time with the instructor and ask your questions live.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

A cohort capped at 10

A small room, so every build gets Jules's eyes each week.

Private cohort Slack channel

Ask questions, share progress, and unblock between sessions.

Personal written review

Jules reviews what you build after every session, with feedback specific to your own app.

Emily, Vibe Coding Academy's AI build agent ($299 value)

Access via the Vibe Coding Academy MCP: the AI build system you keep and reuse on every future project.

The full Master Course included ($299 value)

52 step-by-step video tutorials you watch async, anytime, your between-session backbone before and during the cohort.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Demo Day

Present your live, customer-ready app to the cohort.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.

Course syllabus

39 lessons • 7 projects

Week 1

Sep 7—Sep 13

Claude Code Fundamentals and Your Frontend Prototype

8 items

Week 2

Sep 14—Sep 20

Git, GitHub, and how your application is structured

6 items

Schedule

Live sessions

1-2 hrs / week

Each live session lasts 1h

Projects

2-3 hrs / week

Async content

1-2 hrs / week

Recording of the session + additional e-learning content

Testimonials

The Vibe Coding Academy course has been extremely helpful in navigating an ever changing AI tooling landscape, having a feedback and support loop with Jules and the other students is unique offering that makes the learnings easy to grasp!
Andrew Scott
Senior Technical Product Manager @Arrive Logistics
Thanks to Vibe Coding Academy I was able to use the right AI tools at the right time. Jules is great at explaining complex topics in simple words, fully recommended! Check out my first product thanks to Vibe Coding Academy: kontenia.com
Xavi Vives
Solo Founder
I highly recommend Vibe Coding Academy to any product manager, any innovator to build up and ship any idea, and understand all the technicalities behind it and get supported by AI.
Giuseppe Milo
Product Manager @Trendible
Vibe Coding Academy give me the opportunity to launch my first app. Jules, shares every tips and trics to build a fully functionnal prototype that you can host on your local computer or on any cloud provider. I highly recommand anyone serious with vibe coding to vibe code with Vibe Coding Academy!
Rachid BENSLIMANE
Growth Marketer @Lintix
I’ve always had ideas, but I used to hesitate a lot :D Thanks to Jules & Vibe Coding Academy helped me turn one of those ideas into a real product. That experience made me feel like a creator (not just a learner) and gave me the confidence to trust my skills and ship.
Sang Pham
Sr Product Owner @Home Credit
The course focused on the API aspects, the database aspects and authentication aspects, and a lot of other stuff. Which I felt even a lot more premium courses that I found were not really mentioning.
Shadab Ahmed
Product @Optimizely