Software Engineering
Backend, APIs, systems
Capstone
Ship a multi-tenant SaaS with auth, billing, and a real customer.
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DevForge is a 12-week command center for software, AI, design, DevOps, and data engineers. Every day you build something real. Every sprint becomes a portfolio piece. You leave with hiring evidence you can point to — not a PDF.
sprint · day 23 · ai engineering
Current sprint
23
Sprints
of 60
12
Shipped
live URLs
18d
Streak
M–F
"Keep today's scope narrow — validate one failure mode, then turn it into proof."— Aria
The production stack you'll build with
TypeScript
React
Next.js
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Claude
60
sprints
12 wk
capstone arc
4
AI mentors
30-day
money-back
Why DevForge
Most learning platforms make you watch videos and click quizzes. DevForge makes you ship. Every day. With a mentor who knows you. With a portfolio that hires you.
| Feature | DevForge | Coursera | Codecademy | In-person bootcamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI mentor on every sprint | 4 personalities | human only · 1 hr / wk | ||
| Real deployed projects each week | capstone only | |||
| Public portfolio at your subdomain | ||||
| Decisions log graded by AI | ||||
| Mock interview with rubric scoring | extra cost | |||
| Career readiness & resume builder | ||||
| Self-paced, 15–120 min/day | ||||
| Cancel any time | ||||
| Monthly cost | $39 | $59 | $39.99 | $1,250+ |
How a sprint works
The sprint is the only first-class object in DevForge. No lessons, no modules, no quizzes. You enter a sprint, you ship an artifact, you keep the artifact. That's it.
01
A real-world scenario, told like a Linear engineering doc. Stakes, role, clock.
02
Just enough technique to start. Inline code samples, annotated diagrams, no fluff.
03
Real editor, real terminal, real shell. Aria observes silently — questions only.
04
Auto-deploy to your subdomain. The artifact exists, the sprint completes.
05
Mentor reflects on what you did. Specific. The decision is logged forever.
The curriculum
Pick one to focus, branch into others as you grow. Every track ends in a portfolio capstone — a real, deployed, technically rigorous project that hiring managers respect.
Backend, APIs, systems
Capstone
Ship a multi-tenant SaaS with auth, billing, and a real customer.
LLM apps, agents, RAG
Capstone
Build a production RAG assistant with evals and cost guardrails.
Product design, systems
Capstone
Design and ship a complete app — research to production handoff.
CI/CD, observability, infra
Capstone
Operate a multi-region service through a real incident.
Pipelines, modeling, BI
Capstone
Build a pipeline from raw events to a dashboard execs read weekly.
Portfolio, résumé, interviews
Capstone
Real mock interviews with rubric scoring. Real résumé built from your work.
The mentors
DevForge mentors never autocomplete your work. They ask diagnostic questions, watch how you code, and remember every sprint you've done. After 90 days, they know you.
The Architect
Calm, terse. Asks more questions than she answers. Best when you want to think rigorously about tradeoffs.
The Builder
High-energy, ship-focused, allergic to over-design. "Ship it ugly, then ship it pretty."
The Designer
Visual, taste-obsessed. References how Stripe and Linear made their decisions. Best for UI/UX work.
The Researcher
Precise, citation-heavy, deeply technical. The one for ML, statistics, formal verification.
Our promise
DevForge is brand new, so we won't pretend to have thousands of alumni. Instead, here's exactly what you get — and a guarantee that protects you if it's not a fit.
You ship real, deployed projects
Not quizzes or toy exercises. Every sprint ends with something running at a public URL you can show a hiring manager.
Your work is yours forever
Your repos, deployed apps, decisions log, and portfolio. Cancel any time and everything you built stays online and stays yours.
AI mentors, on call 24/7
Four mentors built on Claude help you reason through bugs, architecture, and trade-offs — guiding you to the answer instead of handing it over.
A public portfolio you own
Ship your proof to a portfolio at your-handle.devforgehq.com — the kind of evidence interviewers actually click through.
Interview prep built in
Mock interviews with rubric scoring and a resume built from the work you actually shipped. No 'guaranteed job' claims — just real preparation.
30-day money-back guarantee
Start with a free week — no card required. If it's not for you within 30 days of upgrading, email us and we'll refund you.
Try a free week with no card. Upgrade only if you want to keep going — and if the first 30 days don't earn it, we'll refund you, no hard feelings.
The portfolio
Every sprint becomes an artifact: a deployed URL, a public repo, a decisions log, a screenshot. After 12 weeks your portfolio lives at {handle}.devforgehq.com — yours, exportable, indexable by Google and hiring managers.
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Backend & AI engineer · 18 shipped projects, 6 live
Multi-tenant invoicing
RAG over legal docs
Webhook receiver
Realtime presence
52 weeks of shipped artifacts
Every artifact is real
Real repos, real deploys, real subdomains. Not screenshots in a slide deck.
Every decision is logged
Why you chose Postgres over Mongo. Why memoization. Hiring managers read these in interviews — having yours written down is a moat.
A mentor letter, on file
At capstone, your mentor writes a 200-word reference based on the actual work you did. We've seen these used in real job applications and they land.
Yours forever
Cancel any time. Your portfolio, your repos, your code all keep working. We don't hold your work hostage.
Pricing
Start free. Pay $39 a month while you're building. Cancel any time without penalty — we don't hold your work hostage.
Free Trial
$0
7 days · locks after
Try the first week. After day 7, your work is preserved but locked until you upgrade — so the system can't be farmed.
Pro
$39
per month
The full school. Built for individuals serious about shipping.
Pro Annual
$348
per year · save 25%
For builders committing to the 12-week capstone and beyond.
Teams
Custom
5+ seats
Train your engineering team with private cohorts and reporting.
30-day money-back guarantee · Cancel any time · No card on trial
FAQ
Your seat in cohort 04
The 7-day trial gives you the full first sprint and a deployed artifact you keep. No card. After that, $39/month — cancel any time without penalty.