Ship a Micro-SaaS in a Weekend - and Charge Real Money for It
Go past the prototype to a product that takes payment
A hands-on, advanced course that takes you past the prototype stage to a real, payment-enabled product. In a weekend you build a tiny but genuinely functional micro-SaaS, wire up Stripe end to end, deploy it live, and put it in front of real users. It is the monetization sequel to Ship a Web App in a Weekend: that course ends at a deployed prototype, this one starts there and ends with a checkout that takes real money.
with Sam Cummings
VP of AI Engineering @GenAI Works
Course Overview
Most build tutorials stop at a working prototype. This one keeps going to the part that actually matters: a deployed product that takes real money and has its first paying users, all in a single weekend.
You'll scope a tiny SaaS down to the smallest thing worth charging for, build the core feature with Claude Code as your pair-programmer, gate it behind auth and a paywall, and wire up Stripe Checkout end to end, including the webhook that unlocks access on payment. Then you deploy it to production with secrets handled correctly.
The final module is the half tutorials skip: a concrete, repeatable motion to put your product in front of ten real people and ask for money. You leave with a live, payment-enabled SaaS, a portfolio piece, and a path to your first side income.
What you'll learn
Scope a micro-SaaS down to the minimal slice that is worth charging for, and ship it rather than a prototype
Build a single-purpose, genuinely useful app using Claude Code as your pair-programmer
Gate functionality behind authentication and a paywall so the paid feature is actually protected
Integrate Stripe Checkout end to end, including the webhook that unlocks access on payment
Deploy a payment-enabled app to production with environment variables and secrets handled correctly
Acquire your first paying users with a repeatable outreach motion instead of build-it-and-they-will-come
Meet the instructors
Sam Cummings builds AI agents and the context systems that make them work in the real world. Sam leads AI Engineering at Gen AI Works, one of the world’s largest AI communities, where he helps builders, startups, and enterprise teams move from AI experiments into real products, workflows, and adoption. He is also building at the edge of agentic AI, with a focus on local-first systems, memory, orchestration, and computer use. His core belief is simple: agents rarely fail because the model is weak. They fail because the system does not understand the user, the work, the environment, or the constraints well enough to act with confidence. That context layer is what Sam teaches. Sam previously co-founded Dataplant, an AI-powered customer success platform acquired in 2026, and served as Head of Data Science at Gainsight, where he led a global team building predictive models for enterprise retention and growth. Across more than a decade of building, he has shipped systems across customer success, CRM, ERP, predictive analytics, and agentic workflows for 150+ companies. He has also interviewed 90+ leaders across the agentic AI space.
Who this course is for
Ambitious Developers Builders comfortable with a terminal, git, and a language who want to ship a real, monetized product for portfolio and side income, not just another prototype
Career-Leveling Engineers Developers who want a shipped, paid product as concrete proof-of-skill to level up their career and earnings
Prototype-Stage Makers People who can already build an app but have never productized it, adding auth, billing, and a path to first paying users
What's included
6 self-paced video lessons covering the full weekend build sprint
A scaffolded starter repo with a README so you build, not boilerplate
A Stripe integration checklist: test mode to live, webhook setup, and common pitfalls
First 10 paying users outreach templates for DMs, communities, and your launch post
A pre-flight checklist for your Stripe account, deploy account, and API keys
An environment and secrets handling guide so you never commit your keys
Course syllabus
6 lessons
The Weekend Plan: Scope a Tiny SaaS You Can Actually Charge For
Build the Core: One Job, Done Well with Claude Code
Add Accounts and a Paywall: Auth and Gating
Wire Up Real Payments with Stripe
Deploy It for Real
Get Your First Paying Users
Schedule
Format
Self-paced video course
Lessons
6 lessons
Level
Advanced
$19
One-time payment
plus tax, calculated at checkout
- 6 self-paced video lessons covering the full weekend build sprint
- A scaffolded starter repo with a README so you build, not boilerplate
- A Stripe integration checklist: test mode to live, webhook setup, and common pitfalls
- First 10 paying users outreach templates for DMs, communities, and your launch post
- A pre-flight checklist for your Stripe account, deploy account, and API keys
- An environment and secrets handling guide so you never commit your keys
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