Where code lives and how it moves between tools — the course calls an account 'non-negotiable'.
Pick this whenAlways. It's the interchange format between vibe-coding platforms, coding agents and your own machine.
What makes it different
The handoff point: Lovable pushes here, Claude Code clones from here
Version history is the safety net that makes aggressive AI editing survivable
Public repos are how the course shares finished builds with the cohort
What it does
Hosts repositories with full version history
Receives one-click pushes from vibe-coding platforms
Provides the clone URL that starts local work
What it does not do
Common wrong expectationsDoesn't deploy anything by itself — that's Vercel's job
Doesn't protect you from committing secrets; keys belong in environment config
Where it sits in a stack
The spine of every build in the course. Nothing graduates from a browser platform to a local agent without passing through it.
ShelfBackend, hosting & code · Backend, hosting & code
Our status · usingThe _CLASSES site and pipeline are versioned there — and the build-then-HOLD rule exists because of it.
For your projectsEvery sitting ends at a commit Paul reviews. The SS-NN checklist's phase C is exactly this step.
| Session | Coverage | Moment | What happened |
|---|
| Basecamp 2: Vibe Coding | demonstrated | 2:09:05 | Repo sync from Lovable, repository concept, green-button clone URL; 'a GitHub account is non-negotiable' |
| Basecamp 4: Introduction to n8n — II | demonstrated | 2:27:44 | Repos published live (Lovable + Bolt + Codex outputs) and added to the resource pack |
| Office Hours VI: Paul's SEO/AEO/GEO Question - Moving a Lovable Site into GitHub and Claude Code, the GEO Skill, llms.txt, and CLIs as the Glue | demonstrated | | Installed and authenticated from one prompt |
| Session 4: How to Build Micro Prototypes | demonstrated | 1:33:47 | Repo creation (private), commits with IDs and changed files, push confirmations, repo-as-source-of-truth doctrine; taught from zero via the Google-Drive analogy |
| Session 8: The Conversion Playbook | demonstrated | 2:56:41 | The deploy loop: local folder → push → green check → live site; his pixel commit deployed in under a minute |
| Session 10: Building on Cursor & connect with AI workflows | demonstrated | 1:42:07 | The Duolingo clone repo (MIT license, checked on stage) as the UX skeleton |
| Session 12: Claude Code — Design & Building Agents (App-First: a Game, a GTM Board, and a Live Deploy) | demonstrated | 2:22:12 | Connector; repo created and pushed by prompt, no git commands |
| Session 14: Claude Code — Advanced Workflows | demonstrated | 0:19:29 | Installed and device-authenticated live; conversational repo queries verified against github.com |
| Session 15: Loop, Harness & Graph Engineering (posted as 'Securing Vibe-Coded Apps') | demonstrated | 2:45:53 | His 38-project repo toured: Secure AI Lab (self-hosted local stack), CLI agent, gesture-controlled CAD — the practice-in-public evidence |
| Session 16: GitHub 101 — Fundamentals & Essentials | demonstrated | 0:12:01 | The session's subject: repo creation via Lovable, collaborators, dev branch, PR raise/diff/merge, rollback, fork walk-through, pricing page (free: 500 MB packages; Team $4/user/mo: 2 GB) |
| Session 18: Nano Banana + Veo 3.1 Multi-Shot Video — UGC Genie, an AI-UGC Product Built Live | demonstrated | | UGC-Dashboard repo: MIT, Fortune-500 README, mermaid graphs, secret scan before push |
| Session 19: Content Strategy Pipeline — the YouTube Growth Stack, Built by an Agent Team of Chats | demonstrated | | Dedicated publish chat; force-push nudged three times; PRs/worktrees taught in passing |
| Session 20: Complete LinkedIn Agency Automation — Carousels + Newsletter from One Content System | demonstrated | | Dedicated chat makes the repo public with MIT after a 404 (accidentally private first) |
| Session 21: Advanced Data Extraction from PDFs — Parsing, OCR, and the Token-Free Product | demonstrated | | AuthReady pushed public with README mid-session |
| Session 22: Automate Admin Tasks — Advanced RAG (Enterprise 'Internal Perplexity' Built Live) | demonstrated | | Phased pushes, README with Drive link, MIT license switch, Dependabot PR bafflement ('I don't know what Dependabot is') |
| Session 23: Automating AEO/GEO — Audits, the File Layer, and Evidence-Led AI Search | demonstrated | | Production pushes mid-session; MIT repo for the audit tool; Actions as continuous GEO |
| Session 24: Building a Marketing OS — Sector-Agnostic Command Center on an Open-Source Stack | demonstrated | | Repo pushed and flipped public for the cohort mid-session |
| Session 25: Product Hunt Launch Playbook — Engineering as Marketing, Rules That Get You Banned, and a Real Launch Scheduled Live | demonstrated | 2:05 | Repo push; Actions trouble; shout-out |
| How to Build Vertical Harnesses: The Car Analogy, a Reusable Folder Template, and Live Builds that Print a Keycap, Replace a TV's Bloatware, and Reach Physical Devices Over SSH and Tailscale | demonstrated | 1:00:00 | Public template repo, Actions YAML, one repo per harness |
| Day 13: Front End Meets Backend — Lovable to n8n by Webhook and .env, the Lovable<->n8n MCP Connector, Respond to Webhook, and GitHub for Teams | demonstrated | | n8n repo, license, branches, PRs, commits |
| AI Automation Mastery I: Trigger-Logic-Action, Zapier vs Make vs n8n, and Four Live n8n Builds (Form to Email, AI-Personalised Email, Sheets and Data Tables, Scheduled LinkedIn Poster) | demonstrated | | n8n repo; JSON storage |
| AI Sprint: Claude Code with Antigravity — Day 1 (Taste as the Moat, the Muscle-and-Mirror Setup, and the Model Council Build) | demonstrated | | Public push with .gitignore verification and curated commit scope |
| AI Sprint: Vibe Coding to Production — Day 1 (Deployment, DNS, and the Five Locks) | demonstrated | | Two repos created live; the shelf both hosts deploy from |
| AI Sprint: Windsurf & Devin — Day 2 (Building Superplexity: Plan with Opus, Execute with Cascade, Review with Devin) | demonstrated | | Devin's branch + PR + checks viewed live — Day 1's pizza mechanics operated by an agent |
| Weekly AI Updates - October 2026 digest (Oct 7 so far: Gemini 4 'Argon', America.gov AI, Meta Muse, NVIDIA OpenShell, Grok Bot rewards, Copilot teammates, Claude Sonnet 5.5 deep dive; Mark Palmer's GBox showcase; Oct 14 so far: Google Health Coach, the White House frontier-AI accord, OpenAI Dev Day 2026, Anthropic's Oct 8 usage-policy update, Hark, Microsoft MAI voice models, Claude Haiku 5.5) | demonstrated | | Public agentic-RAG repo; Mark's GBox portfolio |
| Office Hours XI: rolecompass.ai's Launch, Redesigning a Client Site Without Losing Its SEO, the Hermes Harness Tour, and Turning a Workflow into a Skill | explained | | github.com/trending for tool discovery |
| Office Hours XII: Building Paul's Second Brain — the Full Project-Management System, Live | explained | 0:22 | The migration funnel - docs repo as agent food |
| Session 3: Building Elegant Landing Pages | explained | 2:02:17 | The hosting pair: static → Pages (free), backend → Vercel; Vercel security scare contextualized (GitHub/Microsoft get hit too) |
| Session 4: How to Build Micro Prototypes | explained | 1:25:39 | The version-control software itself: install once, agents operate it; commit=snapshot, push=upload, clone=download; branches deferred |
| Session 27: Lead Magnets as Proof Artifacts — the Mega-Prompt Build, Four Live Magnets, and the Skill That Packages the Workflow | explained | | Publish target for the skill |
| Beginner Glossary (30 terms) + I'm Stuck Guides (23) | explained | | Glossary entry plus the portability guide (clean-environment build test as the real proof) |
| AI Sprint: Windsurf & Devin — Day 1 (Vibe to Agentic: GitHub as Pizza, the Four Spec Concerns, and the IDE Lineage) | explained | | The pizza-restaurant recap: branch/PR/merge/reject-with-feedback/fork/commit; repo created conversationally in the demo |
| Session 16: GitHub 101 — Fundamentals & Essentials | mentioned | 2:16:31 | UI alternative to terminal git — same operations, different front |
| Session 17: Facebook Ads Competitor Research & Replication | mentioned | 0:08:09 | Callback to the prior session's GitHub + Lovable workflow homework |
| Session 30: C3 Town Hall — Four Cohort Products Under the Knife, Outcome Selling, and the Rest of the Programme | mentioned | | PERI's repos; also an OAuth provider on SkillPort. |
| The Five-Level AI Generalist Roadmap (+ Operating System & Monetization) | mentioned | | L5's real-repository PR project; Copilot on the developer track |
| AI Masterclass: Exploring Antigravity 2 — Four Products, Four Slash Commands, and Two Live Builds | mentioned | | The team-collaboration answer: shared repo, since Antigravity has no teams mode |
| AI Sprint: Build Your Own AI Skills - Day 1 (Solve It Three Times Before You Build the Skill, Prompt / Skill / Project Rule, the Video-Restoration Walkthrough, and the Two-Skill Voice-Then-Deslop Pipeline) | mentioned | | |
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