Unstuck: Advanced Vibe Coding for Lovable Builders
Justin Dougherty
4x VP Product Mgmt
Learn the critical thinking and AI techniques to get your projects "Unstuck."
As a Product Builder / Vibe Coder, you've almost certainly hit a point where you get stuck in a frustrating (and seemingly never-ending) debugging loop that you can't escape.
Learn product building techniques from a veteran Product Management professional, in a non-technical structure.
This course will give you both the high-level perspective and approach to see the bigger picture problems, while learning the tactics and tricks to use within Vibe Coding tools to help you escape traps to advance your product from stuck to successfully launched. Stop wasting your work by abandoning stuck projects.
AI tools are an amazing resource, especially for builders who don't have a coding background. To unlock greater potential for your product dreams, it can take years of training or hard-earned experience (including painful failures and frustrations). This course will distill those skills into approachable lessons to propel you to a new tier of building.
What you’ll learn
You will leave this course feeling that you can independently take your vibe coding projects out of their AI-based traps and to your goal.
Gain confidence by learning techniques to communicate clearly with your AI coding tool.
Gain confidence by workshopping example products to let you see the techniques in action.
Gain confidence by hearing other people's similar struggles, so you don't feel alone or self-doubting.
Learn a non-technical way of thinking about application building that transcends platforms, tools, and models.
Practice modeling your products into a structure that will help you communicate with your AI developer.
Learn how to define & prioritize the core of your product, so you don't delay your launch or future iterations.
Use Systems Thinking to assess your bugs and identify the root of your problems.
Craft clear communications to your AI so that it knows exactly what to change (and what not to).
Develop non-technical approaches to unearth technical problems.
Get real-world tactics for debugging situations when you're stuck.
Mitigate risks in your AI-built software by prompting wisely.
Utilize safe ways to extend your application, while learning which areas require human oversight.
Learn directly from Justin
Justin Dougherty
4x VP of Product; 2025 Top 10% Lovable builder
Who this course is for
People who have experimented with Vibe Coding but get stuck when the app doesn’t work as planned and “fix this” debugging doesn’t work.
People who are trying to use Vibe Coding to increase their productivity (for prototypes, tools, etc.) but get stuck and run out of time.
Non-technical people who want an approachable understanding of how to build their Systems Thinking skills to design maintainable apps.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Justin Dougherty in a real-time, interactive format.
Direct teaching of techniques to apply to your own projects
Immediately put these into practice by advancing your own projects outside of class.
Group workshopping of examples to gain confidence in good Product practices
Break down real products so you feel capable of applying this to your own future applications.
Office Hours for Live Q&A
Discuss how to use this class to get your own projects "Unstuck"
Certificate of Completion
Share your new skills with your network.
Access to Session Recordings
Missed a live session? Watch the recording to see the content.
Maven Guarantee
Your purchase is backed by the Maven Guarantee.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 2 lessons
Week 1
Apr
24
Opening Lesson - Fundamentals of Getting Unstuck
Apr
25
Optional: Office Hours
Apply the Fundamentals to your Project
Week 2
Apr
28
Lesson 2 - Systems Thinking Focus & Workshop
Solidify and Expand your Application
Apr
29
Optional: Office Hours
May
1
Lesson 3 - Expanding Your Application Rigorously
Schedule
Live sessions
4-6 hrs
3 live 90-minute lessons (Fri, Tues, Fri) including group workshop time. Lessons start by introducing enough skills and continue by diving deeper into actual examples and group skill-building exercises. Optional office hours are held between each session for students to ask personalized questions coming from their own experiences.
Fri, Apr 24
4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Sat, Apr 25
4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Apr 28
4:00 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)
Projects
1-5 hrs
Put the techniques into practice. This is outside work on your own Lovable projects to apply the skills you've learned in class and bring back feedback to the group in subsequent sessions.
Frequently asked questions
$449
USD