Vibe-Coding a Product
Non-engineers ship a working web app with AI, safely.
Vibe-Coding a Product is a self-paced online course: 8.5 hours of recorded sessions across 5 modules, with 4 graded by Nova, Square 1's AI tutor. The founding price is A$45, down from A$90. Start any time and keep your own pace.
- Module 1What you can and cannot build this way60 min
- Module 2From idea to a running app120 min · graded
- Module 3Data, auth and payments120 min · graded
- Module 4Safety: secrets, backups, what breaks90 min · graded
- Module 5Project: launch120 min · graded
- recorded hours
- 8.5
- modules, in order
- 5
- deployed projects
- 3
- graded checkpoints
- 4
Who it is for, and what you receive.
Non-engineers who want to ship a working web app with AI, safely.
None; no code.
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The recorded sessions
Taught by an instructor, taken in order at your own pace, yours for twelve months.
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Graded work after every module
Exercises and projects marked by Nova against a rubric you can read, with what you did well and what to fix.
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The projects
Deployed and graded, each one on your record with its repository.
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Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use, run with the career agent.
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The record and the certificate
Every grade at square1ai.com/u/{handle}; a credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify.
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Nova as your tutor
Help that is about your actual work, because it has read all of it.
The content plan, module by module.
8.5 recorded hours from an instructor, taken in order at your own pace. Nova grades the work at the end of each module.
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The tools
Limits
When to get an engineer
The projects.
Each is deployed and graded by Nova against a rubric you can read before you start.
- Project 1
A running app
Pick a small problem you know, such as a booking list for a fictional community tennis club. Prompt an AI app builder to produce a working web app that does one core action well, and iterate until it does it reliably.
You hand in- Running app link
- The prompts you used
- Short note on iterations
The rubric requiresA grader can open the app and complete the core action without help.
- Project 2
The app with auth and payments
Add a database, sign-in and a payment to your app, for example paid court bookings for the fictional tennis club. Payments run in test mode, and each signed-in user must see only their own records.
You hand in- App link with sign-in
- Database holding user records
- Test-mode payment flow
- Short recorded demo
The rubric requiresA new user can sign in, sees only their own records, and a test payment completes.
- Project 3
A launched app
Launch your app publicly and get one real first user. Before launch, apply the safety checklist: secrets kept out of the code, backups running, and a plan for what breaks. Then write down what you would do next.
You hand in- Live app URL
- Completed safety checklist
- Evidence of a first user
- Short what-next write-up
The rubric requiresThe app is live, has a first user, and every item on the safety checklist is applied.
What you can do at the end.
A product you built and understand, with three graded projects on your record.
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Know what you can and cannot build this way.
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Take an idea to a running app.
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Add data, auth and payments.
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Keep secrets, backups and users safe.
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Launch.
No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.
Your record at the end.
Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.
- Graded, line by line
- Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
- Module by module
- Each module ends in graded work; the next opens when you are ready, on your own schedule.
- Nova remembers
- Help is about your actual work, because the tutor has every submission and every failed exercise of yours.
- One page an employer can run
- Every grade and project at /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
- ProjectGraded
A running app
A grader can open the app and complete the core action without help.
- ProjectGraded
The app with auth and payments
A new user can sign in, sees only their own records, and a test payment completes.
- ProjectGraded
A launched app
The app is live, has a first user, and every item on the safety checklist is applied.
- Every moduleGraded
4 graded checkpoints
Each module ends in work Nova grades line by line against a rubric you can read.
The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.
5 entries, at your own pace. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.
Pre-orderHow we help you find a job.
Proof, not a certificate: the projects you deployed are the thing you show, and the tools below are yours to use.
The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.
Get the booklet- 1
Your hiring plan
The same six-part plan the bootcamps use: target roles, the gap map, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. You run it with the career agent.
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A record an employer can run
Your graded projects on /verify. An employer opens it and runs the code.
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The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
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The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.
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A path to the live cohort
If you want the instructor, the gates and the hiring sprint, the bootcamp on the same subject is one waitlist away.
Questions people ask.
About Vibe-Coding a Product, answered from the plan on this page.
- How is an AI product manager different from a regular product manager?
- Can a non-technical founder build an AI product in 2026?
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Founding spots are open. Hold yours.
Recorded by an instructor who does this work, graded by Nova. Spot holders hear the opening date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.
- A product you built and understand
- Three graded projects on your record