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Welcome & what you'll build

Hi, I’m Pete — welcome 👋

I use Claude Code to build tools for my own business — small programs that do the busywork so I don’t have to — and this free course teaches you to do exactly the same. The question I get at this point is always the same one: “come on — I can’t code. Am I really going to end up with working software, or with a half-finished mess I can’t fix?” You’ll end up with working tools. I’ve picked builds that are genuinely within reach, and every prompt you need is written out for you.

This course takes you from never having opened a terminal to three real, working tools you own outright — plus the skill to build more whenever you spot a task worth automating. No code experience, no computer-science degree, no agency. If you can describe what you want in plain English, you can build it.

One thing worth knowing up front: I wrote the whole path — every instruction and every copy-paste prompt in it. But rather than re-record what brilliant creators have already taught better than I could, I hand-picked the clearest video for each step and put them where you need them: the module-level ones sit at the top of each module, and a few sit inside the single lesson they belong to. Every one is by an independent creator and is credited with a link to their channel — go give them a follow.

Watch — hand-picked

The clearest walkthroughs of this step, from creators we rate. Each one’s credited — go give them a follow.

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What you’ll walk away with

This isn’t theory. By the end you’ll have three working tools sitting on your own computer, each one built by you in a follow-along module — and three things that outlast them:

Every one of the three tools is something people normally pay a monthly subscription to rent. You’re going to own yours — and they run on your own computer, for free.

How this course works (this part is important)

This isn’t a normal course where you watch videos and take notes. You’re going to build the real thing, with an AI teammate called Claude Code doing the heavy lifting. Seven short modules, in the order you’d actually do the work — every step in one place, so you’re never hunting across ten tabs for the next piece. Here’s the shape of it:

1. Module 0 (this one): set up Claude Code on your computer so it can build for you.
2. Module 1: learn the one skill the whole course rests on — describing what you want clearly.
3. The build modules: you follow along, one copy-paste prompt at a time, and finish each module with a real, working tool.

Each module produces something real — a document, a working program, a finished tool — that you actually keep and use. You just follow along, one copy-paste at a time.

How long it takes: 33 short lessons, about four hours of reading — but this is a build, so budget for the doing as well. The module estimates in the sidebar come to roughly four and a quarter hours of hands-on time, and each of the three tool builds is a sitting of about forty minutes. Nothing is timed and nothing expires, so you can stop after any lesson and come back — including months later, when you want to change one of your tools.

What it costs

No surprises and no hidden fees. There is exactly one bill:

If you’d like to read more about my own background and experience, check out my about page.

Watch this step

Want to see where this is all heading? This clip follows a non-coder using Claude Code to build something real from start to finish — the exact loop you're about to learn. It’s from an independent creator — credited below, so go give them a follow.