Arjay McCandless

System Design for Velocity Coders

Amazon

Maven

Lockheed Martin

ex-SDE @Amazon, Tech Influencer (300k+ followers)

Learn a quick framework to pick the right tools so you can start building immediately.

Choose the Right Tech Stack Fast

Learn a lightweight deployment pattern (Vercel, Render, or simple EC2) that lets you ship fast without over-engineering.

Ship Your Project With a Simple, Repeatable Deployment Flow

Learn a quick method to visualize your whole system before you start coding.

Sketch a Simple, Scalable Architecture

20 minute Q&A. Ask me anything from  career advice to system design tips.

Ask me Anything

Ship your first real SaaS in 8 weeks (with a secure SaaS template to get you started)

Build your first secure SaaS in 8 weeks

Google

Microsoft

Stripe

LinkedIn

Colin Matthews

Sold my first SaaS in 2021. Product Manager, 8500+ students, featured by Lenny.

Cohort 1

Cohort 2

You’re excited by what’s possible with AI coding, but once you get past a prototype, the walls appear: errors you can’t debug, databases that break, and payments that don’t process.Tools like Replit, Bolt, and Lovable get you started fast, but aren’t production-ready. Meanwhile, you see posts raving about AI-built products and wonder: what’s the missing step?You need to learn the difference between prototypes and production.This course shows you how to get paid by real customers with Stripe, ship features safely using GitHub, deploy without downtime, catch bugs before users do with CI/CD, and build AI features that people rely on. You’ll submit projects for peer + instructor feedback—so by the end, you’ll have a production-ready SaaS and be ready to earn your first side-project dollar.

Go from idea to production and launch your first SaaS in 8 weeks.

Learn the fundamentals of engineering workflows

Discover how to get your first 100 customers

Uplevel your technical skills

You should understand APIs, databases, storage, and SaaS applications at a high level

Some technical skills

This course is dense -- you will need to dedicate 5-10 hrs per week to get value from the course

High agency or dedication

You will need to be able to read docs, watch videos, and look up information yourself as needed

Self sufficient 

Product managers, engineers, and designers who want to ship production-ready SaaS side hustles

Graduates of Lovable, Bolt, and Replit who finally want to learn real engineering workflows

Anyone who wants to launch their own product using tools like Github and Claude Code

An advanced-level course for senior and rising design leaders ready to address the most common challenges Design Leaders face. Learn how to build your durable design operating system to withstand scale, restructuring, evolution, and growth. Establish mechanisms and high-leverage activities that maintain quality and effectiveness for your teams and for the business. Course Topics + Content Build and activate high-impact teamsApply effective organizational design, strategic planning, and performance measurement Define and optimize your operating systemEstablish rhythms and rituals, shape a positive design culture, streamline processes and workflows, and build a robust reporting and communication strategy Identify the most effective design team structuresLearn how to choose the right team structures for your organization Activate your team’s strengths through organizational designAnticipate common challenges within and across teams and learn strategies for effectively addressing them Create your organization’s ideal design teamTogether, we’ll design and build your design team and organization 7 Live, Interactive Sessions, with timezone-friendly options for most APAC/EMEA/AMER locales - One Welcome Kickoff Session- Three Live, Interactive Learning Sessions including Q&amp;A sessions with guest experts- Two Office Hours / Q+A sessions with Kristin for personalized guidance- One Reflection/Wrap-up Session

Design Your Organization's Operating System 

Course syllabus

Course schedule

Directors+ of Design and Operations leading teams across a portfolio of products and services.

Senior Leaders and Practitioners who are establishing, evolving, and leading a Design Organization or Operations practice.

Operations leaders who want to sharpen skills, learn new approaches and methods, and accelerate their organizations.

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

You'll learn how to establish mechanisms, routines, and high-leverage activities that maintain and enhance culture, quality, and community as you grow.

Best practices to build infrastructure that scales

<ul><li>Design and structure a high-performing design organization.</li><li>Effectively prioritize and plan work to maximize impact.</li><li>Utilize visual staffing tools to manage resources efficiently.</li><li>Implement accountability measures to maintain high-quality standards.</li></ul>

Build and activate high-impact teams

<ul><li>Establish effective rhythms and rituals that enhance team productivity and alignment.</li><li>Shape a positive design culture that fosters innovation and collaboration.</li><li>Optimize processes and workflows for greater efficiency.</li><li>Develop and implement robust reporting and communications</li></ul>

Define and optimize your operating system

<ul><li>Learn approaches and tactics that address common organizational and team challenges</li><li>Mitigate these challenges via a fixed vs. flexible framework</li><li>Gain new strategies to keep your team focused and thriving</li></ul>

Identify and anticipate the most common team and organizational challenges 

Guest Experience: Experienced leaders will join to share their stories and give examples of how they navigated similar challenges Instructor Experience: You'll learn directly from Kristin's first-hand experience establishing and leading multiple large-scale global design orgs

Access to first-hand experience and guidance customized to your unique situation

Included are multiple, moderated Q&amp;A sessions with Kristin and other industry leaders so that you can get expert advice on your unique challenges and aspirations.

Q&A Sessions with industry experts

Learn best practices to build a durable design organization operating system.

Kristin Skinner


Cohort 04

Cohort 05

No matter your background or experience, anyone can create apps. This course helps you avoid common pitfalls.

AI Product Manager and Instructor

Citi

Adobe

Atlassian

American Airlines

Bank of America

Drew Falkman

Startup advisor and product strategist has worked with HP, Adobe and many more.

Cohort 3

Cohort 4

No-code tools allow virtually anyone to build apps like having your own dev team. While you don't have to know any programming languages, there are a lot of potential false steps you can make when you are first learning to use these tools.In this course, we will introduce you to "vibe coding" the right way. Specifically, you will learn:🔥 How to plan your product before you start using the Vibe PRD that will be embedded in every prompt to ensure that your product has a clear vision and the vibe coder doesn't hallucinate or make incorrect assumptions.🔥 How to optimize Lovable to build a solid app quickly.🔥 How and why to create a database to store user and other data.🔥 How to manage your data effectively and securely using Supabase, including a SQL primer.🔥 How to AI-enable your vibe coded apps using ChatGPT, Claude or other LLMs.🔥 How to integrate other tools to make highly interactive UIs, integrate payments with Stripe, integrate email functionality and more.🔥 How to integrate with a larger team by exporting code to GitHub.🔥 How to deploy your apps to production.After just 4 weeks, you will be a master vibe coder with your own fully-featured and working application live!

Learn how to build your application using AI no-code tools in just 4 weeks.

Learn how to build great apps using Lovable

Build and integrate a database backend

Integrate ChatGPT, Claude and other APIs (like Stripe) and Javascript libraries

Build your own app

Learn vibe coding best practices

Product managers who want to take their ideas to an app to test a problem space, or to not be beholden to their dev team's fat backlog,

UX designers who want to be able to take their design ideas directly to a live application to validate or just ship.

Non-technical founders who have a great idea but need to build an app without having to hire a developer.

Build a productivity system that learns how you work and gets better every week.

Founder, Engineering Leader, ex-Vice/NYT

The Wharton School

The New York Times

Peloton

VICE TV

Benjamin Jackson

Founder/Eng. Leader (Vice, NYT), ✍🏻 New Yorker, Atlantic, 💼 Peloton, Atlassian

Your calendar’s a mess. It’s not Tetris; it’s Frogger. Meetings crowd out focus time. You try to get ahead, but your to-do list grows faster than you can clear it.Quit adopting a new productivity system every week. Build your own.Here’s what I learned studying productivity for 20 years: The problem isn’t willpower. It’s that every system forces you into someone else’s workflow. With Claude Code, I was finally able to build a system that adapts to me, instead of making me adapt to it.Adopting someone else’s means starting from scratch when it falls short. Building your own instead means your system gets smarter every week.Your system should work for you, not the other way around.This year, I got my priorities in order and lowered my weekly planning time from 2 hours to 30 minutes. I never worry about working on the wrong things anymore. All because I built a system that learns how I work and integrates with my digital life.You’ll learn from my experience building products and processes at places like Vice, the New York Times, Peloton, and Atlassian.And you won’t just learn from me.You’ll learn by seeing others build their systems, too.Let’s start building your Chief of Vibes ✨

Start every week with your top priorities already time-blocked on your calendar

Turn Claude Code (Or Cursor, Codex, Gemini) into your chief of staff

Save 2-4 hours a week on routine planning and task management

Surface your top 3 priorities without the Sunday night panic 

Protect your focus time—and lunch break—from calendar bandits

Automate your most tedious, soul-sucking workflows

Integrate your productivity system with the tools you use every day

You don’t need to be an expert. If you can write a basic prompt, you’re ready.

You’re comfortable with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)

You can check out, commit, and push to GitHub.

You know the basics of using Git for version control

Need help setting it up? Join my free lightning lesson, where we’ll get Claude Code running on your machine together.

You’ve installed Claude Code on MacOS 15 (Sequoia) or higher

Technical Founders: You’re playing calendar Tetris with investors, customers, and staff who all want your focus at 2pm on a Tuesday.

Product Managers: You’re coordinating multiple projects with shifting priorities. Your to-do list grows faster than you can clear it.

Engineering Leaders: You’ve tried all the productivity apps (even Notion!) and found a reason to abandon every last one within weeks.