The curriculum

Twelve milestones, idea to maintained.

A real project lifecycle, not a pile of tutorials. Every milestone ships a tool you keep — and the fast-moving ones get refreshed monthly, so the lesson never goes stale.

Free quickstart 12 milestones 4 phases + capstone refreshed monthly

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The quickstart

brief the junior → build one slice → put it live → you're live

A deliberately small first project that gets something of yours onto the internet — before you decide whether to go deeper. Email to start, no card.

Start the quickstart
01 · phase

Design

Think before you touch code. Free
01

You're the director now

Free

You've got the team — the first move is telling them exactly what to build.

Ships · The Project Brief Kit
02

Know your team

Free

Which teammate handles which task, and what each one costs you.

Ships · The Model-Picker
03

Spec before you build

FreeSoon

Scope it, kill your own feature creep, and define what "done" actually means.

Ships · a scope-cutting prompt
Everything below is the paid track
02 · phase

Create

Set up the shop, then build.
04

Set up the shop

Dev environment, git as a time machine, and secrets handled from minute one.

Ships · a repo-bootstrap kit
05

Read the blueprint

Frontend, backend, database — enough architecture to direct, not to hand-build.

Ships · an architecture cheat-sheet
06

Direct the build

The build loop — and how to review a pull request you didn't write.

Ships · a pushback prompt
07

Tests from day one

The tripwire that catches the junior's mistakes before your users do.

Ships · a test-scaffolding prompt
08

Don't reinvent the wheel

Stripe, fulfillment, auth, email — the senior instinct is to buy it.

Ships · a buy-vs-build checklist
03 · phase

Deploy

Make it live, safely.
09

Environments

Local, staging, production — and where Docker earns its keep.

Ships · an environments kit
10

Ship it

Deploy basics, push-to-deploy, and how to roll back when it goes wrong.

Ships · a deploy checklist
04 · phase

Maintain

Keep it alive.
11

The boring middle

Dependencies, monitoring, backups — and watching the bill.

Ships · a maintenance checklist
12

Keep the junior in check

Ongoing review, technical debt, and knowing when to refactor vs ship.

Ships · a review-cadence kit

Capstone

Ship a real one

Run the full loop on your own project, start to deployed — with the whole team behind you.

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Stays fresh

The lessons that move fastest — model pricing, tooling, the current lineup — get a monthly review, with the volatile bits dated on the page. The roster you read is the roster that's current.