Lane 03

The Machine Shop

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53Modules

0/251Lessons

Track A — AI apps, no code

Module MS70

The AI apps

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1ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, plus the Codex, Claude and OpenRouter apps: what each is good at now

2free vs paid plans

3desktop, web and phone apps

4picking the right one for the job

Module MS71

Working in the apps

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1projects and memory

2files and documents

3connectors to your email, drive and calendar

4instructions that stick

5checking what it tells you

Module MS72

Making media in the apps

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1images

2video

3voice

4what each app can and can't make

5rights and disclosure

Module MS73

Agents and remote control

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1agents inside the apps: research, browsing, tasks

2remote-control sessions: running a desktop or terminal AI session from your phone (Claude Code: Pro plan and up, not API keys; Codex: through the ChatGPT phone app)

3what to let it do and what to approve yourself

Track B — Easy lane: build and publish, no terminal

Module MS80

Your first site with AI

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1describe it, generate it, edit it in plain words

2what a static site is and why it's enough

3the page anatomy from BB05

4never put a key or a customer's data in a page: what AI builders get wrong

Module MS81

Publish with the GClub deploy tool

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1one-click publish

2your own domain

3the SEO basics builders hide from you (canonical, page head, per BB56)

4updating it later

Module MS82

Sites that sell

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1v0 and similar builders

2local-business sites

3landing, marketing and static pages

4the landing page for your Black Book op

5forms and where leads land

6booking and the AI receptionist

7measuring it

Track C — Advanced lane: the terminal

Module MS04

The tools

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1Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Grok CLI and OpenRouter: what each is

2install and sign-in

3subscription vs pay-per-use API billing

4the billing trap: an API key in a .env file silently bills the API instead of your plan

5the Windows shell trap

6which to reach for

Module MS05

Working like a terminal rat

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1instruction files

2skills and sub-agents

3permissions and what never to allow

4running several agents at once

5reviewing what they changed

6keeping costs down

Module MS06

OpenRouter: every model, one key

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1one API for hundreds of models

2picking a model by job and price

3routing and fallbacks

4spending limits

5OpenRouter's own fee (5.5%) and free-tier limits

6calling it from your own code

Basics

Module MS00

Your machine

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1the terminal isn't scary: what it is and what can't go wrong

2terminal

3files and paths

4installing things

5environment variables

6reading an error

Module MS01

Git and GitHub

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1repo, commit, branch, diff

2undo safely

3GitHub, pull requests

Module MS02

Building with a coding agent

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1plan before edit

2give it context

3read the diff

4test before trusting

5skills and instruction files

6AI-built apps leave data wide open: the published Lovable vulnerability (CVE-2025-48757), keys left in page code, users reading each other's data by changing an ID, and how to check your own

Module MS03

How the web works

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1browser, server, DNS, HTTP

2front end vs back end

3what hosting is

Web

Module MS10

Ship a site

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1HTML and CSS

2a framework (Next.js)

3deploy (Vercel)

4domain

5the "$10k website" from a reference

Module MS11

Front end and design

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1components

2design systems

3responsive

4accessibility

5UX that people finish

Module MS12

Back end and APIs

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1REST

2auth

3webhooks

4rate limits

5retries and idempotency

Module MS13

Databases

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1Postgres

2schema

3Supabase

4row-level security

5migrations

Systems

Module MS14

Automation

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1trigger, decide, act, log

2n8n

3schedules

4human approval gates

5self-host for margin

Module MS15

Browser automation and scraping

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1Playwright

2Firecrawl

3extraction

4platform rules

5when not to

Module MS16

Bots and agents

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1tool calling

2MCP

3memory

4knowledge (RAG)

5multi-agent

Module MS17

Voice agents

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1vendors and per-minute costs

2call flows

3booking and transfer

4disclosure law by state

Module MS18

Media pipelines

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1TTS

2image and video generation

3Remotion

4captions

5a batch run

Module MS19

Document pipelines

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1OCR

2extraction to structured data

3validation

4where it breaks

Scale

Module MS20

Servers and infra

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1VPS

2Docker

3Cloudflare

4costs

5backups

Module MS21

Security

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1the AI-built-app holes in depth (Lovable CVE-2025-48757, leaked keys, open databases, ID guessing)

2secrets

3auth done right

4prompt injection

5permissions

6incident response

Module MS22

Reliability and evals

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1test sets

2evals

3guardrails

4monitoring

5rollback

Module MS23

Efficiency and cost

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1model routing

2caching

3batching

4self-host vs API

Module MS24

Payments and SaaS

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1Stripe

2subscriptions

3multi-tenant

4onboarding

Module MS25

Replace a SaaS

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1pick the bill

2scope the 20%

3build

4deploy

5measure the saving

Crypto

Module MS30

How blockchains work

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1ledgers

2consensus: proof of work, proof of stake, others

3finality

4forks

Module MS31

Chains, wallets, keys

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1L1s and L2s compared

2wallets and seed phrases

3signing

4bridges and their risks

Module MS32

Tokens and contracts

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1ERC-20 and ERC-721

2a simple contract

3mint your own badge on testnet

Module MS33

Rogue Layer One

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1what it is

2how GCLUB and badges move to it

Builds — each ships a Black Book kit

Module MS40

Receptionist agent

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Module MS41

Lead-list pipeline

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Module MS42

Site + bot subscription

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Module MS43

Document extraction service

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Module MS44

Claude Code skill as a client deliverable

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Module MS45

Cleaning up vibe-coded builds

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Build and sell your own product

Module MS50

Pick the product

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where builders find ideas that sell · checking demand before building

1where builders find ideas that sell

2checking demand before building

Module MS51

Micro-SaaS end to end

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one small paid tool, from idea to first paying user

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Module MS52

Mobile apps

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building with AI, app-store rules that reject copycats and blocked vibe-coding apps (Mar 2026), app-store search

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Module MS53

Sell through someone else's store

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apps and plugins for Shopify, ChatGPT, HighLevel, WordPress, Chrome; Discord and Telegram bots

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Module MS54

Templates and digital products

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n8n, Make, Notion templates and similar

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Module MS55

Open source first, and starter kits

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give the code away, sell the hosting or the kit

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Module MS56

Launch

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Product Hunt (and what #1 actually earns), Hacker News rules against quick one-offs, Reddit, building in public

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Module MS57

Search for software

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SEO for tools, programmatic pages after Google's March 2026 crackdown, visibility to AI answer engines

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Module MS58

Pricing and trials

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freemium vs card-up-front trials (2026 conversion benchmarks)

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Module MS59

Getting paid

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Stripe vs merchant-of-record services, 2026 fees

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Module MS60

Lifetime deals

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AppSumo and the money left on the table

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Module MS61

Selling the business

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what small SaaS sells for, marketplace fees, what buyers ask first

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Module MS65

Exposed: builder terrain

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fake revenue screenshots · cheap "Claude" and key resellers that steal logins · account and key resale that breaks the terms · clone-and-reskin · resale-rights software · scraped-data resale

1fake revenue screenshots

2cheap "Claude" and key resellers that steal logins

3account and key resale that breaks the terms

4clone-and-reskin

5resale-rights software

6scraped-data resale