Build and Ship an AI SaaS in 48 Hours · 20 min · None yet — this lesson is pure product scoping

Product Definition & The 48-Hour Mindset

A 48-hour deadline isn't a constraint fighting your product decisions -- it's the thing forcing you to make them at all.

Hiring signal: The gap between 'idea to revenue' has collapsed for solo builders -- knowing how to scope a real MVP in a weekend, not a quarter, is the actual skill behind every indie SaaS success story you've read about.

What you will learn

Write a one-sentence pitch specific enough to build against
List 5 MVP features and 5 explicitly out-of-scope features
Make a real pricing decision before any code exists

Introduction

By the end of this course you'll have a real product, live at a real URL, that a stranger can sign up for, hit a free-tier limit on, and pay to unlock. Today, before any code: what exactly are you building, and — just as important — what are you deliberately not building.

What You're Building

A completed Product Definition Canvas — no code today. This course's reference product is an AI Proposal Generator (client name + project description in, a polished proposal document out); you can build that exact product or swap it for your own idea using the same architecture. Either way, today's output is a decision document, not a line of code.

Unlock the full lesson

You've read the first 2 sections. The rest of this lesson covers The out-of-scope list matters as much as the feature list, Why AI SaaS MVPs are different from traditional SaaS MVPs, Pricing: a real number, not "figure it out later", Pricing Decision, What you're building today — plus a hands-on lab, quiz, and project artifact.

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