Confidence Through Experience
Build and ship a real mobile app, learn how modern systems are designed, and leave with experience you can actually talk about.
This is for students who want more than tutorials. You’ll build with guidance, make technical decisions, and get more comfortable by actually doing the work.
This is not a course. It’s a guided learning experience.
You will build a native mobile app you can deploy on the App Stores. But you won't just be building an app — you'll be building a system.
It will be performant, secure, maintainable, and designed to scale to millions of users.
What you leave with
- A native mobile app deployed to the App Stores
- Real stories about architecture, tradeoffs, auth, and scaling for interviews
- Experience building with AI without giving up technical ownership
- A clearer understanding of how real product systems fit together
What you’ll build
We won’t be assembling a toy project. You’ll build a social mobile app with the kinds of features real teams have to design carefully.
- Authentication with email, Google, and Apple sign-in
- User profiles, social graphs, and projection tables
- Backend design with policies, views, functions, and migrations
- Deployment workflows for the App Store and Google Play
The point is not just to finish an app. It’s to understand how the app, the data model, and the deployment process fit together.
How it works
This is live.
We meet over Zoom and build together in real time, sharing our screens as we go. You won’t just be watching — you’ll be actively building.
There’s no traditional homework. The work happens during our sessions.
What we’ll be using
We’ll be working with modern, open-source tools: React Native + Expo for the UI (and to build the app itself), and Supabase, a backend-as-a-service platform, for our database, authentication, and more. We'll be using other tools as well — with opportunities to contribute to open-source projects along the way.
This isn’t a simplified stack built just for learning. These tools and platforms are used in real production applications — and the app you build will be structured, secured, and deployed as a production-ready system from the start.
AI is your tool
AI will write most of the code — but the code is yours.
You're the one who will understand the system and make the technical decisions. The skill isn't in the prompt — it's in knowing what you want.
What you should know
If you have:
- Built something with React
- Written data to a database
- Pushed code to GitHub
- At least heard of TypeScript
Then you’ll be ready to get value from this.
Why this matters for interviews
You won’t be memorizing talking points. You’ll be able to explain why you chose a schema, how auth worked, what tradeoffs you made, and how the product was shipped, because you actually built it.
That comes across in interviews, portfolio conversations, and technical discussions.
Your guide
My name is Jonathan Mazin.
After more than 20 years in software development — including leading teams at multiple companies — I moved into education.
I became a Lead Instructor at a reputable bootcamp, training hundreds of students and helping many land strong roles in the industry.
I created this learning experience because students need two things: good guidance and real experience.
AI changes the workflow, but it doesn’t change the value of understanding what you’re building and why.
Interested? Email me: