Mark Nguyen
CEOPassionate trainer focused on helping professionals realise better opportunities in work and business.
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The Claude for App Builders Workshop
Build a real, working app and put it live on the internet in one afternoon - without writing a line of code yourself
Some of the companies where our students come from
What you'll gain
A stack that actually ships
Claude Code, Next.js, Supabase and Vercel, wired together so a non-engineer can reach a live app.
Your idea, planned first
Who it's for and what it does, reviewed in plain English before any code exists.
Real people can log in
Authentication wired up - the difference between a demo and something someone can actually use.
The confidence to get unstuck
How to read a failure and describe it to Claude, without needing to know what the error means.
How it sticks
A workshop designed for lasting impact
Discover
You see the actual gap - not clever prompting, but giving Claude your context and your own material to work on.
Build
Set up around your own work, and running on it before the session is half over.
Trust
The two places Claude will mislead you, caught in seconds - so using it well and using it safely become one habit.
Compound
Three of your own jobs, packaged up to rerun next week, without starting from a blank chat.
About this session
The gap was never the idea. It was everything after it
Most people with an app idea are not stuck on the idea. They’re stuck on everything after it - the accounts, the setup, the words nobody explains, the sense that there’s a step-one you were supposed to already know. The idea has been fine for a year. It’s step one that never happened.
What’s changed is that the building is no longer the hard part. Claude writes the code. Your job is the part you were always good at: knowing who this is for, what it should do, and whether what came back is right. That turns out to be most of software, and it’s the half nobody could outsource until recently.
So we spend the afternoon on the path rather than the theory. Plan the app before building it, so you’re reviewing something you can argue with instead of hoping. Get it running on your own machine. Put it on GitHub, deploy it to a real address, and wire up logins so somebody who isn’t you can sign in. Four modules, each one ending with something that works.
We also spend real time on things going wrong, because they will, and because that’s the moment most people quietly stop. Knowing how to read a failure and describe it well is the difference between an afternoon that was interesting and one that changes what you do next.
It’s deliberately small. When your deploy fails at twenty to six, somebody needs to get to you before the module ends - which is the whole reason to do this live rather than watching a video at 1.5×.
This is for you if…
- You've had an app idea for a while and no way to build it
- You can install software on your laptop and sign up for a few accounts
- You'd rather ship something small and real than plan something big
- You're comfortable being stuck for ten minutes and asking for help
Probably not, if…
- You're a working engineer - you'll find the pace slow, and Claude Code has better docs than a beginners' session
- You want to compare app builders before choosing one
- Your laptop is locked down and you can't install anything
- You want to leave with a finished commercial product - three hours gets you a real, working first version
The workshop agenda
Idea at three o'clock, live app by six
Four modules, each ending with something that works. You'll spend almost all of this afternoon building rather than watching. The running order below is UK time; the session times at the top of the page are shown in yours.
- 15:00 15 min
Welcome, and what you're going to build
A quick round of ideas. Bring your own, or take one from the list we provide - a renewal tracker, a habit app, an onboarding checklist. We use whatever you choose for the rest of the session.
- 15:15 25 min
Module 01 - Claude Code and accounts setup
Claude Desktop's Code tab, a new project folder, and the four accounts that do the work: Claude, GitHub, Vercel, Supabase. By the end of this block everyone is set up to build any app they can describe.
- 15:40 40 min
Module 02 - Build your app foundations
Plan Mode: describe the user, the problem, the flow and the data, review the plan Claude writes back, change what's wrong, then accept it and watch the app get built. We finish with it running on your machine.
- 16:20 10 min
Break
Coffee, stand up, look out of a window. Back at half past.
- 16:30 30 min
Module 03 - Deploy your app
Publish to GitHub, import it into Vercel, and get a public URL. Then the part everyone gets wrong on their own: telling Supabase which addresses are now allowed to talk to it.
- 17:00 30 min
Module 04 - Add a real integration
Pick one and do it properly: "Sign in with Google" through Supabase, or Stripe and a paid monthly subscription. Both have moving parts we'll walk through rather than hand-wave.
- 17:30 20 min
Showcase
Everyone shares their URL and shows the thing they've built. Genuinely the best twenty minutes of the session, and the reason we keep the group small enough that everyone gets a turn.
- 17:50 10 min
Where to go from here
What to build next, what the free tiers cost you when you outgrow them, and the two habits that separate people who keep shipping from people whose app stops at version one.
Details, agenda and timing subject to change.
Before you book
What happens next
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Your ticket arrives in your inbox
It has your joining details, your receipt and a calendar invite, ready to add straight away.
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You get a bespoke setup guide
Everything installed and ready before the day, so no session time is lost to downloads. You and your fellow students start straight on real work.
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The workshop itself
Our instructors show you how to use Claude, drawn from their own experience in industry. Then you do the real work, and leave with workflows you can use the very next morning.
Need to move to another date, or can't make it any more? Reply to your confirmation email and we'll sort it. You can cancel up to 21 days before the workshop and we'll refund you in full.
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Arpan Bakshi
Chief Growth Officer & Director of EducationLeads curriculum design and workshop delivery at Atlas Learn. Formerly an educator and trainer, specialising in breaking down complex technical concepts into accessible, hands-on learning paths.
Before you book
Questions people actually ask
Bring the idea you've been describing to people for a year
Three hours, a small group, and your own app on the screen. You'll leave with a URL you can send to someone. Change your mind? Cancel up to 21 days before and we'll refund you in full.