AI Learning · Founder & Chief Architect
HackerLabs.ai
Master AI by doing — hack anything.
Level Up
By doing
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Signup friction
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Shipping wins
The Problem
Most AI training is theory dressed up as a course. Leaders finish, can quote a model name, and still can't ship anything useful with AI on Monday morning.
The AI Architecture
HackerLabs is a gamified, hands-on lab where players level up by shipping real AI work — prompts, builds, agents — with daily challenges that build durable muscle memory.
What Aaron Shipped
- No-signup entry — press Start and the lab loads instantly
- Tiered challenges from prompt fluency to multi-agent workflows
- Real prompts and real builds graded against shipped output, not quizzes
- Path from beginner to shipping operator in under a week
The Outcome
Beginners going from AI-curious to AI-capable in days — operators who finish the lab walk back into work shipping prompts, agents, and small AI tools that compound.
Under the hood
How it was built.
Tech Stack
Implementation Notes
Curriculum centered on real AI workflows — prompt design, agent building, and shipping projects end-to-end. Embedded inside the Extraordinary dashboard so members move from idea to working AI build without leaving the platform.
Funnel Strategy
Member dashboard discovery → AI fluency baseline → Guided labs & prompts → Project shipping → Peer review inside community → Compounding AI capability.
The architect's edge
400+ pieces of software architected.
Aaron has architected 400+ pieces of software across ventures, agencies, and Fortune 500 transformations. The skills and business acumen behind that volume are unmatched — and they show up in every system below.
Browser layer
React 18 · TypeScript 5 · Tailwind
Declarative UI, compile-time type safety, design-token CSS that flips themes from one variable.
Build layer
Vite · esbuild · SWC · imagetools
Native ES modules in dev (instant reloads) and tree-shaken, code-split, hash-versioned bundles in prod.
Edge & delivery
Global CDN · HTTP/3 · TLS 1.3 · immutable caching
Every byte served from the user's nearest PoP. Long-lived caches because filenames are content-hashed.
Backend layer
PostgreSQL · PostgREST · RLS · JWT auth · Deno edge functions
Your schema is your API. Authorization enforced inside the database. Server code without server ops.
None of this is proprietary magic. It's the modern open web — selected, sequenced, and shipped by an architect who has done it 400+ times. That's the genius: knowing exactly which piece to use, when, and why it pays off three quarters from now.
"Our exec team did three other AI 'trainings' last year and shipped nothing. After one week in HackerLabs they were prompting like operators and building tools without us."
Chief Learning Officer, Fortune 500
Enterprise pilot, 2025