Brief it, build it, ship it

Pick a real person or thing. Yourself, a friend’s small business, a band you like, a club you belong to. Real beats invented, because you will notice when the result is wrong about something you actually know.

Write the brief before you open anything. Say who the page is for, list what it must contain, choose the one action you want someone to take, such as email, book, follow or buy, and note what the page must not have.

Then one prompt, as specific as your brief allows, and let it build. Do not stop it to ask questions. Do not tidy the output. Let it finish.

Now get it online. Put the file in a folder, make it a Git repository, push it to GitHub and connect it to Vercel. You did each of those steps in lesson two, so go back and check if any part feels shaky instead of guessing.

Open the live URL on your phone and send it to one person. At that point, you have achieved the goal of the phase: something real, public and yours, made in about an hour with very little prior knowledge.

Then stop. Do not improve it yet. The next four chapters are about understanding what you are looking at, so keep this first version with all its defaults intact. It is the version you will study.