buildDay: Build Your First AI App in a Day
12 spots only each month
Build and deploy a real AI-powered web app in 6 hours. No coding experience needed. Seriously. Come spend a Saturday with us and leave with a working app live on the internet.
This workshop is built for non-technical founders, business owners, and curious builders. No lectures. No watching someone else code. Just a clear, follow-along system that gets you from zero to deployed.
Everyone builds the same application together, step by step, with guidance the whole way. We move as a group so no one gets left behind and everyone walks out with the same result.
What you'll build
An AI-powered outreach email generator. Type in a prospect's name, company, and pain point, hit Generate, and get a personalised cold email and LinkedIn message back in seconds. Save results to a database. View your history. All running on your own URL.
It's a real app with a real AI feature, not a toy. And you'll understand exactly how it works.
What we'll do
Plan like a developer: Scope the app, design the database, and turn a rough idea into a buildable spec. This is the step most people skip when they try building alone, and it's the reason most vibe-coded projects fail.
Build with Cursor: Use the AI-powered code editor to build the app on your own machine. You describe what you want in plain English, and the AI writes the code. No terminal commands, no syntax to memorise.
Connect the backend: Set up Supabase as your database so the app can store and retrieve data. Learn how real apps handle secrets, environment variables, and data persistence.
Add AI features: Integrate a large language model via OpenRouter so your app actually does something smart. Not a wrapper around ChatGPT. A structured AI feature with a proper prompt, JSON output, and error handling.
Ship it live: Push to GitHub, deploy to Vercel, and watch your app go live on the internet. Test it on your phone.
What we'll teach you that YouTube won't
We researched 80+ sources on why non-technical builders fail with AI coding tools. Three problems came up in nearly every one:
The fix spiral. You ask the AI to fix a bug. It fixes it but breaks something else. You fix that and break a third thing. We teach you the Reset Rule: revert, re-prompt, and try again cleanly. Never chase a spiral.
The planning gap. Vague prompts produce garbage. We start with a complete blueprint before anyone touches Cursor. You'll know exactly what you're building, what the database looks like, and what the AI prompt should say.
The deployment cliff. Building locally is easy. Getting it live is where everyone stalls. We walk through environment variables, GitHub, and Vercel step by step so you actually ship.
What's included
Small group setting (12 people max) with 1:1 support when you need it
Lunch, coffee, and kombucha on tap throughout the day
All workshop materials, templates, and starter code
Access to a community group after the event for ongoing support
What's out of scope
This workshop focuses on getting you building quickly. We won't cover authentication, payments, or multi-user systems. Those are beyond what we can tackle in six hours, but we'll explain what they are and when you'd need them. You'll leave with a solid foundation to explore them on your own.
Perfect for
Non-technical founders who want to understand how apps are built
Business owners sitting on ideas who don't know where to start
Operators and marketers who want to speak technical fluently
Anyone curious about what AI development tools can actually do
What to bring
Your laptop (Mac or Windows) + charger
Your willingness to try something new
Accounts you'll need
We'll send detailed setup instructions a few days before the event. Everything takes about 15 minutes.
Cursor: Pro plan ($20/month)
OpenRouter: $5 of credits
GitHub: free
Vercel: free
Supabase: free
Schedule (subject to change)
8:30am Doors open, coffee, setup check
9:00am Welcome, introductions, demo of the finished app
10:00am Plan like a developer: scope, database, AI prompt design
10:45am Coffee break
11:00am Build session 1: project setup, form, Supabase, AI integration
12:00pm Lunch
1:15pm Build session 2: results display, save to database, history page, deploy to github and vercel
2:30pm what comes next + wrap up
What you'll walk away with
A deployed app you built, live on the internet, that you can show anyone
The complete project code and all workshop materials
A clear understanding of how modern apps are made: Cursor, GitHub, Vercel, Supabase, AI integration
Three habits that will save you every time you build: checkpoint before changing, revert instead of chasing fixes, plan before prompting
Access to our community for questions and support after the event
Spots are limited. Grab your seat and build your first app.