Nina Kolari

Award-winning indie app developer. 11 iOS apps shipped. Cursor Hackathon winner

How to Ship Your First iOS App Without Writing Code

Indie iOS Developer & Vibe Coding Educator

See every step of how a non-technical person actually builds and ships an iPhone app using vibe coding tools

What vibe coding actually looks like end-to-end

It's not the tool. It's scoping, prompting, and knowing when your v1 is done. You'll get a framework for all three.

The 3 things that decide if you ship or quit

A quick test you can run on your own idea during the session.

Is your app idea actually buildable right now?

Build your first real products with AI in just 2.5 weeks (no coding skills needed)

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2.5 years on Maven (35 cohorts)

Microsoft

Amazon

Shopify.com

Canva

Harold Dijkstra

Your guide to learn how to build your own product ideas

Your guide to building with AI 

Lovable

Claude

Supabase

GitHub

Kieran Ball

Builder, ready to show you how to build without writing any code

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Bootcamp for non-technical professionals:Learn the skills to turn any idea into a working product.🗓️ Reserve Your Spot for our next cohort → starting July 6<h2>Why This Bootcamp?</h2>You’ve got great ideas, but you are always dependent on others to build them.You don't want wait to jump on business and career opportunities.The AI space is overwheling, and you are not sure where to start.<h2>This bootcamp changes that:</h2>✅ Step-by-step guidance ✅ Zero coding skills required ✅ Designed to fit your schedule ✅ Battle-tested format, with 1600+ bootcamp students<h2>What to expect:</h2>Our Bootcamp is a beginner-friendly onramp:👉 Learn the skills to build with AI 👉 Daily bite-sized lessons to get the reps in 👉 Ship your first products in 2.5 weeks<h2>Your outcomes:</h2>Tools come and go, so we focus on the skills you need.These skills transfer to whatever tool you use, whether that's Lovable, Replit, Codex or Claude Code.The real value is that you learn how to think like a builder.You'll walk away with two working products, a real understanding of how software works, and the confidence to build whatever comes next 💪⚠️ We currently teach using Lovable and Claude Code because they're the best tools for the job right now.

Learn how to build real products by yourself (no coding skills needed)

Learn how to build real products with AI

Walk away with two working, full-stack products

Get expert help and real support

Gain skills you can use anywhere

This course is for you, if you're coming from a non-technical background and can't code (like product managers, marketeers and designers)

This bootcamp is perfect for you, if you want to learn real skills that are transferable across all the different vibe coding tools.

If you want more autonomy and freedom in your work, this bootcamp is for you!

Turn your idea into a true native iOS app in 30 days with AI. Learn the workflow to build and ship in Swift/SwiftUI—no iOS experience needed

Midsommar cohort

Summer 2026

15+ years Product&Marketing, 100+ MVPs 

Miro

LEGO®

Readymag

Elena Avramenko

15+ yrs in Product & Marketing, award-winning founder, 100+ new product launches

15+ years iOs developer, ex-Uber, Meta

Booking.com

Uber

Ivan Misuno

15+ yrs in mobile development | built enterprise-level products and frameworks

Build with Modaal in April

September

A lot of "vibe coding" ends in the same place: a prototype that looks like an app but can't become a serious product. If you've tried iOS in Cursor, Claude Code, or Rork, you've probably hit codebase chaos — drifting structure, fragile builds, "small changes" that break everything. You have the idea. You don't have a shipped, scalable app.We opened this buildcamp with one goal: you build a true native Swift/SwiftUI app in one month and release it — with our help and Modaal.dev orchestrating the workflow between you, your agent, and Xcode, so your build stays stable and scalable while you move fast. Note: this is not a lecture series, this is a high-intensity buildcamp not a watch-and-take-notes course. Expect 90% building (async), and you join the 10% teaching (live sessions). You bring the intent. We make sure you ship. We have life sessions to cover the mobile-specific things: prompting techniques, native architecture, signing, TestFlight, the App Store checklist etc. Plus every participant gets 2 hours of 1:1 time with a senior engineer or designer to fix real release issues in your app.The goal is simple: vibecode a lot, and ship a native app to the App Store in 30 days.

Guided online buildcamp to ship a real native app, not just a prototype.

Turn an idea into a shippable native iOS v1

Build a maintainable Swift/SwiftUI codebase with AI

Ship with Xcode: builds, signing, TestFlight, App Store checklist

Native iOS apps are built on macOS. Without a Mac, you can’t run the iOS toolchain Modaal relies on.

A Mac computer to use during the hackathon.

Xcode is required to compile and run your iOS app. Modaal.dev needs it to produce a working build.

Xcode installed, or the ability to install it before starting.

Modaal.dev is free during the hackathon, but the agent you connect is paid and required for code generation.

A paid Cursor, Claude [or another agent] account (active or ready to set up).

PMs + Product Designers who define scope + flows (PRD/Figma) and want to ship an App Store-ready Swift/SwiftUI app fast.

Solopreneurs and small indie dev studios/teams who want to release apps, earn from them, and support them for the long term.

Builders who already tried Cursor/Claude (or built a simple iOs app/prototype) and now want a scalable, maintainable app foundation.

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

Founder of Vibe Coding Academy

Jules Boiteux

Founder of Vibe Coding Academy & AI educator

Q4 - 2026

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.

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

The fundamentals of Claude Code

The technical fundamentals of building an app

A reusable methodology to ship a production-ready app

Staying in control of your build

How to wield a stellar, resilient tooling stack

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.

A web SaaS idea you want to build

You should know what an API, a database, a frontend and a backend are. No coding, CS degree, or terminal experience needed.

Basic technical literacy (no coding required)

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.

Motivation and the will to learn by doing

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<pre><code class="language-markdown"></code></pre>

AI lets you build fast  >>> The real risk is building the wrong thing.

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Vibe-coding tools like Lovable and Claude let you go immediately from idea to prototype. What used to take weeks now takes hours. That sounds like an advantage — but it's created a new problem: vibewasting - building fast without clarity or a plan.Building the wrong thing faster just gets you to the wrong place sooner😉.Most vibe-coders skip the one step that determines whether any of it is worth it: validation. They start building the moment they have an idea — before they've talked to a single customer, before they know if the pain is real, before they know if anyone would pay.This workshop fixes that. In 2 hours you'll build a clear plan for the next 14 days — giving you much more confidence in your idea and helping you justify further investment of time and money. We'll start by writing a sharp bet on your idea, define exactly who your first customer is, and design interview questions that surface real pain. You'll also create a Lovable prompt that specs the tiniest version worth building - something you can vibe-code in an hour and put in front of real people to validate. You leave with a 14-day validation plan, ready to test before you invest weeks building the wrong thing.

Validation steps and framework to identify the best idea to invest your time to build

Have clarity on what ideas to keep and what to keep

A first-time founder or side-project builder with a business idea who wants to test it before spending weeks vibe-coding the wrong thing.

A vibe-coder who has already built something that didn't get traction and wants a structured approach before starting their next idea.

A professional or domain expert who spotted a problem in their industry and wants to validate it as a business before learning to build.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Building prototypes and MVPs to test ideas quickly before committing to full development.

Identifying opportunities and validating what to build through customer research, experimentation, and prioritization.

Content creators producing digital media and building audiences.

Automating professional workflows with AI tools — productivity, operations, and task automation.

Designing and optimizing the context window for LLM applications — prompt structure, memory, and information retrieval.

Using AI tools like Cursor, Replit, and Lovable to build and ship functional software without a traditional engineering background.