Most app courses assume a MacBook, prior JavaScript and a willingness to spend two hundred hours. This one assumes a mid-range Windows laptop, an Android phone in your pocket and no code you have written yourself. You will have an app running on your own phone in the first lesson, then build it into something real: tabs, a form, data that survives a restart, a receipt photo from the camera, an evening reminder, your own icon and name. Then you ship it, and this is where every other course stops. The twenty-five dollar door, the twelve testers, the fourteen days, the data safety form and what review actually looks like. Everything up to the store costs nothing, and the course says exactly where money starts.
The whole money map up front, a toolchain that installs on Windows, a real app running on your own phone from a QR code, and the first change you make by asking rather than typing.
FirstPrompt is in early access. These are notes from the people testing it, shared by role instead of made-up names, while the first public cohort gets going.
I'd avoided the terminal for years. Every tutorial just assumed I already knew the basics. Here I ran my first real command in about a minute, right in the browser. No install, no panic.
Product designer
Day-one beginner
Honestly the daily streak is what got me. Half an hour after dinner, and by week three I had a landing page I was actually proud to send people.
Marketing lead
Never opened a shell before
The code review on every submission felt like sitting next to someone really patient. It caught stuff a video course would never have bothered to tell me.
Solo founder
A bit of terminal experience
FirstPrompt is a small independent studio teaching people who don't code to get real work out of Claude. Every lesson is written and tested end to end by the same team that builds the product — the courses, the tutor and the sandbox are one workshop, not licensed content.
Everything you need to know about the course, the sandbox, the cert, and the money.
A file is a route, three tabs that work, a plan you edited before any code was written, a form that looks like an app rather than a tutorial, and what to do when the agent itself is the bug.
One entry's shape agreed before any code, storage that survives a restart, a history you can search and edit, an empty state worth screenshotting, and proof the whole thing works in airplane mode.
A receipt photographed and kept, an evening reminder that needs no server, your own icon and name on the phone, the build budget that protects your money, and Claude looking at the running app.
A splash screen and a chart that photograph well, a dark mode that respects the phone, money in the reader's own currency, and the identifiers that are cheap to fix now and painful later.
Where money starts. A file anyone can install, a fix pushed in sixty seconds, the twenty-five dollar door, the twelve testers nobody warns you about, and a real submission.