Real apps
Where the tutorials abandon you and the 70% problem lives: databases, auth, secrets, real APIs, and deploying something that stays up. This is the track that teaches you to finish.
This is the heart of the whole hub. Anyone can get an agent to scaffold a pretty front-end. The gap — the reason most projects die — is everything that comes after: a real backend, users, data, and a deploy that survives contact with the world.
What you’ll learn
- A real database — schema design, reading and writing data, and access control so users only see their own.
- Auth — letting people sign in without leaving a security hole.
- Secrets & environment — API keys done right (
.env, never committed), dev vs production config. - Talking to real APIs — keys, async, rate limits, and the error/loading states beginners skip.
- Deploying for real — Vercel / Cloudflare / Railway / Supabase, and what to do when the deploy breaks (it will).
- Debugging with the agent — reading logs and errors back into the loop instead of guessing.
The builds
A full-stack CRUD app with auth and a database (project 05), an API-backed dashboard (06), and a deployed bot (09). Each is done when it’s live and holds up — you can sign in, your data survives a refresh, and it degrades gracefully when something fails.
The most-requested track. Full lessons are in progress — newsletter subscribers get them first.
Full-stack CRUD app with auth + DB
done → Deployed, you can sign in and your data survives a refresh.
API dashboard (weather / finance)
done → Live dashboard pulling real data, handling failure gracefully.
Discord / Telegram bot with an LLM
done → A bot live in a channel, responding.