Flagship Course
Learn to build a modern web product from scratch - no coding experience needed.
Web in 5 Weeks is the flagship Vibe Code Academy journey. It takes you from zero experience and scattered uncertainty to a real web product with a clear route to deployment with structure, momentum, and a build path you can actually follow.
You learn in a guided sequence that starts with Week 0 for free and takes you through website structure, data, APIs, deployment, and a bespoke final build in Week 5. By the end, you are not just watching lessons - you understand how to build, ship, and keep improving something real.
What changes by the end
You move from uncertainty and no real workflow to a working website, a repeatable build process, and the confidence to keep shaping a serious web product.
Course shape
- Week 0 foundations
- Week 1 website structure
- Week 2 data
- Week 3 full-stack flows
- Week 4 deployment and operations
- Week 5 bespoke product build-out
Entry point
Week 0 free
Level
Beginner to confident builder
End state
A real product you can keep improving, share confidently, and take further
Built for true beginners
Real full-stack progression
The curriculum moves from pages and components into Prisma, API routes, validation, forms, deployment, permissions, payments, dashboards, and security. It is not a shallow front-end-only path.
AI with structure, not dependence
By Week 5 you are using AI as a planning, implementation, and debugging partner inside a milestone-driven workflow. The course teaches control, judgment, and safe execution, not blind copy-paste.
Who This Is For
A strong fit if you want to build, not just watch.
Complete beginners who want a structured path instead of figuring everything out alone
People stuck in tutorial loops who want to build something real, not just follow along
Non-technical founders or builders who want to understand and shape their own product
Anyone who wants a practical, modern web product they can keep improving after the course ends
Curriculum Journey
A real progression from setup to bespoke product.
The page below is grounded in the actual course content across Weeks 0-5. Each stage exists to remove a specific beginner pain point and move you toward a product that is structured, credible, and worth continuing.
Free Introductory Week
Week 0
9 lessons
Focus: Set up your tools, workflow, and mental model so the course feels learnable from day one.
Week 0 builds the foundations for everything that follows. You establish a clear mental model of how modern web apps are developed locally, deployed safely, and maintained over time. You’ll set up your local development environment, understand the relationship between staging and production, and document the runtime, database, email, and Git workflows that real-world projects rely on. Whether you’re staying local-first or preparing to deploy soon, you’ll finish the week with a structured toolchain, a safe branching strategy, and a calm understanding of how your Next.js app will run, grow, and eventually go live.
What stands out
- Lesson 0.1 — The Hosting Landscape & Environment Separation
- Lesson 0.2 — Your Local Dev Setup: Node, Git & Editor
- Lesson 0.3 — Runtime Stack & Deployment Flow (DNS + HTTPS Completion)
What you gain
- Understand local-first vs server-hosted environments
- Understand production vs staging as concepts
- (Server-only, optional) Provision a VPS running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- (Server-only, optional) Install or enable a control panel (e.g. Plesk)
Week 1
Week 1
6 lessons
Week 1 turns your preparation into a working application. You create and explore a real Next.js project, understand how routing and layouts form the structure of a site, and build a small but complete multi-page interface with shared navigation and styling. Along the way you establish safe Git habits, introduce Tailwind for consistent UI work, and map how the frontend, routing, data layer, and version control form a single connected stack. By the end of the week you’ll have a calm, navigable codebase, a reliable local workflow, and a clear mental model of how a real full-stack app fits together before deeper data and feature work begins.
What stands out
- Lesson 1.1 — Exploring Your Next.js Project
- Lesson 1.2 — Pages, Routing & Basic Layout
- Lesson 1.3 — Styling Foundations with Tailwind CSS
What you gain
- Understand the structure of a newly created Next.js project
- Run the development server and preview changes
- Make simple edits and confirm the local workflow
- Create your first Git commit for the project skeleton
Week 2
Week 2
8 lessons
Focus: Add a real data backbone with Prisma, validation, APIs, forms, and database thinking.
Week 2 gives your app a real data backbone. You connect a database with Prisma, design meaningful models, and build API routes that create, read, and validate real records. You then wire those endpoints into working forms and list views, turning your project into a true full-stack application rather than a collection of static pages. By the end of the week you’ll understand how data flows from the browser to the database and back again, how to evolve schemas safely with migrations, and how to structure models, validation, and API responses so future features can grow on a stable, predictable foundation.
What stands out
- Lesson 2.1 — Introducing the Data Layer (Database Connection + Prisma Setup)
- Lesson 2.2 — Designing Your First Data Model (Domain-Neutral Schema Design)
- Lesson 2.3 — Building Your First API Endpoint (CRUD Foundations)
What you gain
- Understand what the “data layer” is in a web app
- Install and initialise Prisma in a Next.js project
- Configure a secure `DATABASE_URL` using environment variables
- Run an initial Prisma migration and open Prisma Studio
Week 3
Week 3
10 lessons
Focus: Connect UI, server logic, and data into full-stack flows that behave like a real product.
Week 3 turns your growing app into a cohesive, production-ready system. You clarify the boundaries between pages, API routes, and server logic, then trace how data travels through forms, validation, services, and the database before returning to the UI. You introduce a proper service layer, consistent error handling, and documented request–response flows, then test everything end-to-end and deploy the result to a real staging environment. By the end of the week you’ll have a joined-up feature that works locally and on staging, a repeatable test checklist, and a clear mental model of how a full-stack application behaves as one connected whole.
What stands out
- Lesson 3.1 — Difference Between Pages and API Routes
- Lesson 3.10 — Full Flow Simulation (Putting It All Together)
- Lesson 3.2 — Form Submission Lifecycle
What you gain
- Distinguish clearly between page routes and API routes
- Map your current project’s app/ page components and app/api route handlers
- Build a simple page → API demo interaction
- Explain the responsibilities of UI vs server logic
Week 4
Week 4
10 lessons
Focus: Learn how staging, deployment, monitoring, backups, and rollback make a product safe to run.
Week 4 moves your project from a working application to a safely operated system. You define a repeatable deployment pipeline, manage your app with a process manager, separate staging from production responsibilities, and learn how environment variables, logging, and monitoring support real releases. You harden security, introduce backups, and practise safe promotion from local to staging to production with clear verification steps and rollback plans. By the end of the week you won’t just be able to deploy your app — you’ll be able to run it deliberately, observe it while it’s live, and update it with calm, repeatable routines that mirror real-world development teams.
What stands out
- Lesson 4.1 — What Deployment Really Means
- Lesson 4.10 — The Full Deployment Lifecycle (Builder Version)
- Lesson 4.2 — PM2 Process Management (Builder Version)
What you gain
- Understand “deployment” as a structured build → restart → verify process
- Run a full staging deployment pipeline
- Explain the difference between dev server and production build
- Verify staging behaviour safely
Week 5
Week 5
11 lessons
Focus: Move beyond the starter website and build the bespoke product layers that make the final result feel truly yours.
Week 5 is where the course shifts from guided foundations into building your own real product. You move beyond the shared starter and define a bespoke direction, turn that direction into milestones, and then execute those milestones with a calmer, more professional AI-assisted workflow. Across the week you add the core layers that make a modern web product feel real: authentication, structured content and media, permissions, payments, transactional email, dashboard and progress UX, admin operations, purposeful AI interactions, and practical security hardening. By the end of the week you are no longer just following lessons to reproduce a demo — you are learning how to shape, extend, and stabilise a product that is recognisably yours.
What stands out
- Lesson 5.1 — From Starter App to Bespoke Product (Transition Method)
- Lesson 5.2 — Executing Your First Milestone (Making the App Yours)
- Lesson 5.3 — Milestone 2: Authentication & Session Gating (Framework Lesson)
What you gain
- Transition from a shared starter app to a bespoke product with a clear build direction
- Turn a rough product idea into milestone-based execution plans you can actually follow
- Use AI as a planning, implementation, and debugging partner without giving up control
- Execute milestone-driven product work in a repeatable plan -> apply -> test -> commit rhythm
What You Finish With
More than a demo. More than copied code.
A structured Next.js App Router project with routing, layouts, styling, and reusable UI primitives
A real data layer using Prisma, migrations, validated API routes, forms, and record flows
A product with signed-in experiences, permissions, dashboard patterns, and meaningful state
Operational confidence around staging, production, environment variables, logging, backups, and rollback
A bespoke final build that moves beyond a starter and becomes recognisably your own product
Why it feels different
The curriculum does not stop at UI polish or isolated CRUD exercises. It keeps connecting product structure, data, signed-in experience, deployment discipline, and real-world operational thinking. That is why the course can take someone from uncertainty to something they can actually keep building.
Common Concerns
The course is designed to remove the usual beginner traps.
I've never coded before
The course starts by setting up your machine, explaining the moving parts calmly, and building your project map before deeper feature work begins. Week 0 is there to reduce anxiety, not increase it.
I don't want theory only
The lessons keep turning concepts into implementation: pages, APIs, data models, forms, deployment routines, auth, payments, dashboards, and security layers. You keep building the whole way through.
I don't want AI to do everything for me
The curriculum repeatedly frames AI as a partner for planning, reasoning, and safe execution. You still make architectural choices, verify changes, and build judgment rather than handing over the wheel.
I want something worth showing people
The course does not end at a toy demo. It progresses all the way to deployment, operational discipline, and a bespoke final product direction with permissions, payments, dashboards, and security in place.
Course FAQs
These answers focus on course structure, local-first building, what you will create, and how the five-week path works in practice.
If you want the broader picture as well, the full FAQs page covers the AI Idea Lab, pricing, setup, and launch questions too.
Get Started
Start with Week 0 for free, then build toward something real.
If you want a guided path from zero confidence to a real modern web product, this is the course to begin with. Week 0 gives you a clear entry point, and the later weeks show you how the pieces fit together into a product worth continuing.