Name: From Chat to Shipping: How I Use AI to Build Real Products as a “Non-Developer”
Start: 2025-12-29T19:00:00Z
End: 2025-12-29T20:30:00Z
Location: Friendship cafe

**Most people play with ChatGPT. A few people ship with it.**
I spent \~20 years as an enterprise product manager for big brand companies sitting in meetings in beautiful buildings. But for most of that time *I hadn’t shipped a single product under my own name.* No Stripe account. No real users

In the last year, that changed. Using AI, I’ve:

* Built and shipped real products with real customers.
* Designed multi-agent systems that turn ideas into deterministic build pipelines
*

**This session is a brutally honest walkthrough of how I actually build with AI – as a “non-developer” – and what’s repeatable for you.**

Colm Byrne is founder of the Ladder non profit and author of SUPERPOWEREDL How Divergent Minds Break Free and Win in the Age of AI and It's Not About The Hat: The Agentic Operating System for Governed AI

### What we’ll cover

1. **From tabs and chats to products and payments**
How I go from “random ChatGPT session” → GitHub repo → shipping something people can pay for.
2. **The “Chat → Repo → Build” pipeline**
A concrete workflow using:

* ChatGPT (or any LLM) for thinking and drafting
* **Chat2Repo** to capture and tag the good stuff into GitHub
* AI-assisted dev tools (Cursor, etc.) to turn those specs into running code

3. **Agentic workflows in the real world**
How I use agents to:

* Turn bug reports into structured issues
* Run deterministic build flows instead of “vibes-based” coding
* Keep momentum when juggling multiple products at once

4. **First dollar fast**
Why shipping something tiny (a Chrome extension, a micro-SaaS, a simple agent) beats polishing a “big vision” – and how that’s changed my career. 10 customers is better than 10 platforms with none.
**Live demo: from idea to repo in 15 minutes**
I’ll take a real idea from the room, run it through my pipeline, and show:

* How I structure the chat
* How it lands in GitHub
* How that becomes a concrete build task / MVP shell

### Who this is for

* Product managers and founders who feel “blocked” because they’re not senior engineers
* People who've built a career on their own BS
* Designers / strategists who have ideas but no shipping pipeline
* Devs curious how non-devs are starting to ship real products with AI
* Anyone in Stockholm who wants to move from *talking about AI* to *shipping with AI*

### What you’ll leave with

* A **simple blueprint** you can copy for your own AI-assisted build pipeline
* Concrete patterns for turning chats into issues, specs, and code
* A different way of thinking about your role: from “consumer of AI tools” to **builder of AI-powered systems**

The session is in **English**, practical, and a bit opinionated.
Bring:

* A real idea you’re stuck on
* Or a current product/workflow you want to “agent-ify”

We’ll keep it informal, interactive, and focused on things that actually ship – not hype.

Colm Byrne Founder of The Ladder

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