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Building a SaaS from Scratch

Take an application from first commit to charging money: multi-tenancy, subscriptions, onboarding, email and the admin work nobody plans for.

16 Hours11 LessonsIntermediate → Advanced

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building-a-saas-from-scratch

project-based

build · ship · explain

Curriculum

A complete, practical progression.

Work through 11 lessons across a structured 16 hour course designed around practical application.

01

Tenancy

Data isolation, billing and access control.

  • 1.1Multi-tenancy without leaks1h 35m
  • 1.2Subscriptions and webhooks1h 35m
02

Getting and keeping users

Onboarding, email and the work in between.

  • 2.1Onboarding to first value1h 25m
  • 2.2Transactional email and admin tooling1h 30m

What students will learn

  • Multi-tenant data modelling
  • Subscriptions, plans and webhooks
  • Onboarding that gets users to value
  • Transactional email that gets read
  • The admin and support work

Technologies and skills covered

Multi-tenancySubscriptionsBillingOnboarding

Course requirements

  • Production experience
  • A payment provider account

Projects

Course projects and outcomes.

Complete focused builds that connect individual lessons into demonstrable development workflows.

Build 01

Multi-Tenant App

Add organisation isolation and prove one tenant cannot see another's data.

Build 02

Paid Plan

Take a payment, provision access from the webhook, and handle cancellation.

Who this course is for

Developers with an app idea ready to charge for
Anyone who has underestimated multi-tenancy

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Course FAQ

Common questions

Yes. The Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp and the Web Development Freelancing course both start from absolute first principles and assume no prior coding experience. The AI-Powered Web Development course is written for developers who already ship code, and states its prerequisites on the course page before you buy.

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