Turn Your Side Project Into a Business
Manu Jayawardana
Exited AI Founder | Co-Founder, Snapdrum
Aki Wijesundara, PhD
AI Founder | Google AI Accelerator Alum
Your Side Project Should Be Paying You By Now
Stop tinkering. Start earning. The one-day playbook for turning what you've built into something that pays.
5,000+ professionals trained | Alumni from Google, Meta, and OpenAI | One-day live intensive
Your side project has been sitting in limbo — this course gives you the push to turn it into something that actually makes money.
In 1 day, you'll learn how to turn your side project into a business:
evaluate whether you've built something people will actually pay for
write the pitch that makes someone say "I need that"
get your first 10 paying customers with no brand and no budget
set a price when you have no data and no competitors
build revenue that runs on 10 hours a week without burning out
By the end, you'll have a 90-day plan to go from "thing I'm working on" to "business that pays me."
What you'll leave with
A clear yes/no on whether your project is worth pursuing and what to fix if not yet
A one-sentence pitch, positioning statement, and landing page structure
An outreach plan for your first 10 paying customers
A pricing framework with zero market data
A 90-day plan with weekly milestones
All templates, frameworks, and recordings — YOURS!
What you’ll learn
Leave with a clear plan to go from side project to paying business — built around your actual project.
The three signals that separate a real business from an interesting hobby
How to assess whether you've built something people will pay for or whether you're solving a problem only you have
What to fix if the answer is "not yet" and when to kill it and move on
How to write the one-sentence pitch that makes someone say "I need that"
How to turn a vague project into a clear offer with a name, a price, and a page that converts
The MVP version of your brand — just enough to look legitimate without spending weeks on design
Where to find the people who need what you built when nobody knows who you are
The first sales conversation when you have zero social proof
Learn directly from Manu & Aki
Manu Jayawardana
AI Advisor | Co-Founder, Snapdrum | Scaling a 7 Figure AI Growth Business
Aki Wijesundara, PhD
AI Founder | Educator | Google AI Accelerator Alum
Who this course is for
Founders, Operators, Marketers, Product Managers running teams
Non Tech professionals with no prior coding/technical expertise
Consultants and agency owners who want to productize their delivery & Anyone who's bought tool subscriptions they never actually set up
Prerequisites
No coding, no technical background, no prior AI certification needed
No coding background, technical expertise required. Skills taught from scratch
Just bring the willingness to build something real
Your eagerness and passion
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Manu Jayawardana & Aki Wijesundara, PhD in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime Access to All Recordings & Materials
Revisit the materials and lectures anytime. Recordings and slides are made available to all students.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Complimentary Access to a Future Cohort
If you’re unable to fully participate or complete the program during your current cohort, you’ll have the option to defer and join a future cohort at no additional cost, allowing you to properly complete the experience.
Tool Workshops
Curated talks from industry experts working on growth, as well as workshops with vendors building growth tools.
24/7 On-Demand AI Support
Receive instant guidance, explanations, and help across every course and module.
Every template, workflow, prompt, and automation — yours forever
Every template, workflow, prompt, and automation becomes permanently yours, meaning you keep the exact systems used to generate content, find leads, send emails, run ads, and automate operations. You can reuse, modify, and deploy them anytime for new products, clients, or businesses without starting from scratch.
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Course syllabus
Week 1
Apr
25
Turn Your Side Project Into a Business: Full Day Live
Session 1 — Is This a Real Business? Honest Evaluation
Session 2 - Position, Package, and Price What You've Built
Session 3 - Get Your First 10 Paying Customers
Templates and Resources - Yours to Keep
Schedule
Live sessions
5 hrs / week
Learn directly from Aki & Manu in a real-time, interactive format.
Sat, Apr 25
5:30 PM—7:30 PM (UTC)
Lifetime Access to All Recordings, Materials and Async content
5 hrs / week
Revisit the materials and lectures anytime. Recordings and slides are made available to all students. Learn in your own time & get a tonne of support in live sessions and homework huddles.
Async content
3 hrs / week
Each week you will have a project that skill stacks week by week to get you building agentic GTM workflows by week 4. Every project includes step-by-step guides. Time invested depends on your familiarity with AI.
Testimonials
The AI training approach is outstanding. Our team learned to build practical AI solutions that we could implement immediately in our educational platform. The hands-on methodology made complex AI concepts accessible to our entire development team.
Kavi T.
CEO of Tilli Kids / Stanford PhDI sent my team through this training for upskilling, and the results have been remarkable. Within weeks, they became much more efficient at building automations and deploying AI agents at work. This program bridges the gap between theory and practice and it’s had a real impact on our productivity.
Aamir Faaiz
CEO of Bayseian
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