Make First Academy

One skeleton, every lesson: objective, watch, make, checkpoint.

Seven modules, one per stage of the Path, plus a Start Here module. Each lesson pairs a curated video with a real assignment and a checkpoint that feeds that stage's gate.

Start with Module 0

Modules

Seven modules, one Path.

Start Here

The mindset, the map, and the toolkit.

3 lessons · 210 min

Spark

Find a problem you have actually felt and prove other people have it.

4 lessons · 360 min

Builds toward First Idea

Gate: A one-liner plus the names of 10 real people who have the problem

Make

Build the smallest version that works and put it on the internet.

5 lessons · 435 min

Builds toward First Build

Gate: A working thing live at a public URL

Launch

Put it in front of strangers and watch what happens.

4 lessons · 345 min

Builds toward First User

Gate: 20 strangers used it, or 100 logged outreach touches

Sell

Turn it into an offer and get paid by someone you do not know.

4 lessons · 330 min

Builds toward First Dollar

Gate: First dollar from a stranger

Grow

Do more of what worked and build the habit of telling people.

4 lessons · 330 min

Builds toward First $1K

Gate: $1,000 cumulative gross profit

Run

Hand the repeat work to AI so the business fits around school.

4 lessons · 375 min

Builds toward First $10K

Gate: $10,000 cumulative gross profit, running in under 10 hours a week

The Firsts

How the Academy maps to the Firsts

Every module builds toward one First. Pass that module's gate and you've earned it.

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First Idea
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First Build
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First User
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First Dollar
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First $1K
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First $10K