1-Week SaaS Live Challenge
Ship a production SaaS in seven days. Live. On Zoom. With me.
Seven days. Thirty seats. One working SaaS in production at the end — not a Figma, not a prototype. Cohort-based, live-only, no shared recordings. You build. I watch, correct, and pair-debug.
This is not a course. It is a war-room. You will ship what most teams take a quarter to design.
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From the roomsI've been in — and the feeds that came out of them.
Live shorts. LinkedIn originals. Unedited.
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PMI Gujarat · Keynote · Dec 2024
I had the incredible opportunity to be part of the PMI Gujarat Chapter — NEXTGEN Project Management, elevating our world through emerging technologies.
Live · this quarter
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LinkedIn impressions
- Field notes11
- Industries20
- Years shipping15+
Karnavati · AI Conclave 2025
Unlocking the Power of AI: it's all about the right prompt. At Karnavati University, I had the privilege of sharing a key insight…
Rajkot · Keynote · 2025
What happens when AI meets India's social and rural future? You get a room full of students, academics, and leaders in Rajkot asking the questions that actually matter.
PM Forum · Off-script · 2025
I walked into a room of 45+ project managers. No slides. No deck. No script.
- PMI Gujarat
- Karnavati University
- Atmiya AI Summit
- HP WeRise · Ahmedabad
- Project Managers' Forum
- NIFT Gandhinagar
- MeitY · Digital India
- UIT Karnavati
- Ahmedabad founder circle
- PMI Gujarat
- Karnavati University
- Atmiya AI Summit
- HP WeRise · Ahmedabad
- Project Managers' Forum
- NIFT Gandhinagar
- MeitY · Digital India
- UIT Karnavati
- Ahmedabad founder circle
Format
Four things that make it non-negotiable.
01
Live-only on Zoom
Seven consecutive sessions. No recordings shared. Attendance matters.
02
Thirty seats, hard cap
So I can see every screen, review every commit, and no one coasts.
03
Ship to production
Auth, payments, transactional email, queue, admin panel, analytics — real product, real domain.
04
Lifetime Skool community
Your cohort + every cohort after. Ongoing code reviews, AMA nights, alum channel.
Syllabus
Seven days. No filler.
Day 01
Idea → architecture in one sitting.
Pick a real product. Lock the data model, the auth plan, the billing plan, and the deployment target. You write the README that makes or breaks the week.
Day 02
Auth, database, infra.
Next.js + Postgres + Prisma + Docker. NextAuth or Clerk, your call. SSL, staging, CI on day two — not on launch day.
Day 03
The job before the AI.
The product flow that would work even without LLMs. Forms, CRUD, emails, search. Boring. Load-bearing. Tested.
Day 04
AI where it pays.
One honest AI feature with retrieval, eval harness, and a guardrail. No AI theatre. No “let’s add a chatbot.”
Day 05
Payments, emails, admin.
Razorpay or Stripe, webhook verification, idempotency keys, transactional SMTP, the admin panel that keeps you sane at 2am.
Day 06
Hardening.
Rate limits, bot defences, error monitoring, log drains, backups, 500-page, 404-page, cookie banner, privacy page — the paperwork that makes it a business.
Day 07
Ship day.
Go live on a real domain. First paying user by evening. Retro. Next 30-day plan. Hand-off to the alum community.
Live, not pre-recorded
Seven Zoom evenings — same energy as the keynote.
No looping pre-records, no LMS gate, no trickling drip. You log in, I’m on, and we ship live. The packed rooms in these photos are the same pace I bring to the seven sessions — concrete examples, live code, and your questions answered in the room.
Industry keynote · packed conference room · 2025
Built for
- Senior engineers who have shipped features but never shipped a company.
- Founders bleeding on agency retainers who want to own the build.
- Product managers who want to learn by doing — with supervision.
- AI practitioners who want the business scaffolding around the model.
Not for
- First-time coders. I’m not teaching TypeScript fundamentals this week.
- Spectators. Every seat ships or the seat is wasted.
- Refund-hunters. No refunds, on any grounds. Read that again.
Founder cohort · 01
Be in the first thirty.
This is cohort 01. The founder-cohort price is deliberately below the long-term price so the first wave of alums become the marketing for cohort 02 onwards. The trade you’re making: lower price, less polish on the cohort ops, more direct access to me. Future cohorts will be larger, more polished, and three-to-five-times the price.
01
Alum-of-record
Lifetime access to the Skool community + every cohort after. Code reviews, AMA nights, alum-only price on future offerings.
02
Ship guarantee
Attend all seven days, complete every assignment, and somehow still don’t go live by retro? You keep your alum status AND get the next cohort seat free. Mutual accountability — if you show up, I’m on the hook.
03
Voice in cohort 02
What stays, what gets dropped, what gets added — alums of cohort 01 vote on the curriculum changes for cohort 02. Real say in how the practice evolves.
No money refunds — your payment locks one of thirty seats. The ship guarantee is the narrower promise: we’ll re-run you for free, not refund you.
FAQ
The awkward questions. Answered up front.
What if I don't have an idea yet?
Bring three rough directions and we lock the right one on Day 1, before you write a line of code. The hardest part of shipping isn't the build — it's killing the idea that won't ship. We do that on Day 1 together so the next six days are all execution.What stack will we ship on?
Next.js + TypeScript + Postgres + Prisma + Docker. Razorpay for India, Stripe for everyone else. Bring Claude Code or Cursor — both fine. No prior experience with this stack required if you've shipped *something* in *any* modern stack — the fundamentals carry.What if I can't really code yet?
This isn't the cohort for first-time coders — I won't teach TypeScript fundamentals in week one. If you're early in your engineering journey, start with /mentorship for a 30-minute pivot conversation, then come back when you've shipped at least one small thing.How is this different from a YouTube tutorial or paid course?
Live, small, accountable. Thirty seats, no recordings. I see every screen, review every commit, pair-debug at 2am if needed. YouTube gives you the architecture; this gives you a shipping habit and a senior engineer in the loop.Will this work if I have a day job?
Yes — that's the assumption for most participants. Sessions run evenings IST (mid-day Europe, morning Americas) so day-job folks can attend live. Expect 4–6 hours daily commitment outside the live session for the build itself. The week is intense by design; one consecutive week beats six split months.Do I get founders' Discord / WhatsApp access after?
Yes — lifetime access to the alum Skool community. Your cohort + every cohort after. Code reviews, AMA nights, alum-only price on future offerings. See /about for what the practice looks like long-term.Is the cohort seat refundable if I don't ship?
No money refunds — your payment locks one of thirty seats and someone else didn't get it. But there's a narrower promise: if you attend all seven days, complete every assignment, and somehow still don't go live by retro, you keep your alum status AND get the next cohort seat free. Mutual accountability.How do you make money on this cohort? Is this a loss leader?
Honest answer: yes, partially. Founder-cohort pricing is shared on a short call — reserve your slot and I'll walk you through it before you commit. It's deliberately below the long-term price so the first wave of alums become the marketing for cohort #02 onwards. The trade you're making: lower price, less polish on the cohort ops, more direct access to me. Future cohorts will be larger, more polished, and significantly pricier.Do I get 1:1 time with you during the week?
Daily. Every session ends with a 30-minute screen-share window where I rotate through the cohort. Alums also unlock quarterly AMA nights inside the Skool community.Why no recordings?
Recordings make a cohort feel replaceable; this one isn't. Live-only forces attention, pairs well with the small-group format, and keeps the Skool community the long-term asset rather than a YouTube playlist that ages.
Thirty seats. One week. Yours or someone else’s.
Payment locks the seat. Lifetime access to the Skool community · no refunds · seats fill in days, not weeks.