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Learn to build real software with Claude — and get paid for it.

Join 3,000+ developers mastering Claude Code and the exact systems we use to ship apps, agents, and automations that earn. Real builds, ready-to-run skills & MCP servers, and a community that ships every day.

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3,000+
members
420+
lessons
weekly
new drops
50+
skills & mcps
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What changes once you can build

The gap between "I have an idea" and "it's live" stops being other people, time, or budget.

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Paying contractors for simple features
+Build it yourself in an afternoon
Watching tutorials, shipping nothing
+A working product live in week 1
Prompts that fall apart at scale
+Agents and MCP servers that hold up in prod
Side projects that never reach a user
+A repeatable path from repo to revenue
Debugging alone at 1am
+Same-day answers from 3,000+ builders
Feeling one release behind on AI
+On the front edge, every single week
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Everything in the box

A structured path from setup to shipping — plus the skills, servers, and templates you'd otherwise spend months collecting.

420+
Lessons
Zero to shipping across 9 stages
50+
Skills
Install in one command each
25+
MCP servers
Wired to real workflows
300+
Prompts
Copy-paste, production-tested
15+
Builds
Real products you can ship
100+
Templates
Starters, configs, CLAUDE.md files
24/7
Community
Builders online around the clock
Updates
New drops every week, forever
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The path, end to end

Nine stages, ordered on purpose — each one builds on the last, from a working setup to your first paid build.

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Real ships, real income

Members who turned Claude skills into shipped products, paying clients, and recurring revenue.

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How ProgrammerJokes stacks up against the alternatives most developers try first.

What you get ProgrammerJokes YouTube $2k bootcamps Going solo
Low cost to start
Structured, ordered path
Ship a real build in week 1
Feedback on your code
50+ skills & 25+ MCP servers ready
Updated weekly for new releases
The monetization playbook
whoami

Built by people who ship

Not theory. Operators who run production systems and turn Claude into working software — teaching exactly how they do it.

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Avery Rao
Co-founder · Engineering

Shipped agent infrastructure used by 1M+ people. 12 years across startups and platform teams, now building and teaching with Claude Code daily.

1M+
users reached
12 yrs
in software
40+
agents shipped
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Jordan Cole
Co-founder · Growth

Built and sold two micro-SaaS products, $0 to profitable solo. Runs the monetization stage — positioning, proposals, and getting paid this month.

2 exits
bootstrapped
$0→profit
solo
90 days
to first client
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Questions, answered

The things developers ask before they join.

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Learn. Build. Get paid.

The community for developers who'd rather ship than watch another tutorial.

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