START FROM ZERO.
BUILD SOMETHING REAL.
Everyone is talking about generative AI. Hardly anyone shows you how to actually use it. This course starts at your first AI chat and walks you through to building real things you want, one step at a time. No experience needed.
No prior experience necessary.
What "Stackless" means
In tech, the "stack" is the pile of tools, languages, and jargon developers spend years learning before they can build anything. Stackless is the opposite. You build without any of it. It is not effortless: you will need an open mind, a bit of patience, and you will trip over the odd hurdle. But you do not need the stack, and that is the whole point.
Built around Claude, for now
This course teaches you with Claude, the AI tool I know best and the one that makes building genuinely doable for a beginner. The thinking carries over to other tools, but every step here uses Claude, so you always know exactly what to do.
The course, start to finish
Four stages, in order. Each one is short, hands-on, and assumes you have done none of this before.
What is generative AI?
Cut through the hype. See what it actually does, and what it doesn't.
2The tools
Which AI to use, what each one is good at, and what to ignore for now.
3Set up Claude
Get it installed step by step, pick a plan, and run your first build.
4Build your first project
Four kinds of project to try, with things I made as worked examples.
What could you build?
By the end of the course you will have built one of these for yourself. Pick whichever sounds like you. Each one comes with something I made the same way, so you always have a finished example to follow.
See what your data already knows
Your shopping history, your messages, your health stats. Take data you already have and turn it into a clear picture of your own life. I built a dashboard that scored my weekly grocery shop for processed food. Yours could look at anything.
Make the app no one made for you
Tried every to-do app and none of them fit? Build your own instead. I did exactly that with Auri, a task app shaped around how I actually work rather than how an app told me to.
Put yourself online, without the overwhelm
A website, your work in one place, your own voice intact. Pulling it all together felt impossible until AI helped me organise the mess into something real. This very site is the worked example.
Make something just because you can
Not everything has to be useful. I built a browser game to play with, and a little tool that decodes UK curly-hair products in the supermarket. Fun is a perfectly good reason to start.
Why this exists
You should not need to be a developer to build the things you want. For years I assumed that wall was permanent. Generative AI took it down. I am not a coder and I have no technical background, but everything on this site is something I made by talking to AI and learning as I went. That is the whole idea here. Short lessons, real builds, and you doing it yourself from the very first step. It takes a little patience, and the odd thing will break along the way, but if I could learn this, so can you.
Start at stage one