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  "markdown": "![](https://pirateskills.com/pirate-skills-icon-dark.svg?dpl=dpl_AiJE2iS1mDh24DEAktp1YD7fFrmf)Pirate Skills\n\n## Build. Grow. Repeat.\n\nVibe coding and growth marketing as one craft – for founders and marketers building their own products and growing them into predictable revenue.\n\n100+ vibe coders and marketers join every month · 2,000+ since June 2025\n\n## Find your way around\n\nEverything Pirate Skills offers in one quick map – free events, free resources, paid programs. New here? Start here.\n\n### Vibe Coding Cologne\n\nMonthly\n\n[hybrid meetup](https://pirateskills.com/events/vibe-coding-cologne)\n\nat STARTPLATZ Cologne. Share real-world AI coding projects, discover new tools and use cases, and trade workflows with builders shipping with AI. Show up in person, dial in remote, or grab the recording.\n\nOnce a quarter we run the\n\n[Vibe Hackathon](https://pirateskills.com/events/vibe-hackathon-cologne)\n\n– a weekend sprint to build an AI product end-to-end.\n\n### Pirate Lab\n\nOne free [monthly online session](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/lab) covering vibe coding, vibe marketing, and the Build-Grow-Repeat playbook. Meet Ben, ask anything, find your bottleneck.\n\n### Insights\n\nWeekly insights for founders. Each one a 7-Day Ship Plan. Read as an [article](https://pirateskills.com/insights), watch on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/@pirateskills), or listen as a [podcast](https://pirateskills.com/podcast).\n\n### Pirate Codex\n\nThe founder's playbook for [building](https://pirateskills.com/build/codex) (vibe coding) and [growing](https://pirateskills.com/grow/codex) (vibe marketing) your first SaaS.\n\n### Captain on Deck\n\n1-on-1 access to Ben's growth brain for your toughest challenges. 15 years of experience across founding, scaling teams, and solving the technical + strategic problems you're facing right now. Book a [30 min call](https://cal.com/bensufiani/30min) with Ben to get started.\n\n### Pirate Forge\n\nBuild. Grow. Repeat. From zero dev skills to your first vibe-coded, revenue-generating SaaS – together, [in 12 weeks](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/forge). Six Build workshops + six Grow workshops, live with Ben on Zoom, with the recordings, the Pirate Codex and a private builder crew. On the [Forge Pass](https://pirateskills.com/passes), which includes the Pirate Pass and its free hackathon ticket every three months.\n\n[Start with a free event](https://pirateskills.com/#upcoming-events)\n\n## Upcoming events\n\nBuild products faster and grow steady revenue at our hands-on meetups, labs and hackathons.\n\n[View all events](https://pirateskills.com/events)\n\n## Product and growth should never have grown so far apart\n\nSplitting product, sales and marketing is a mistake – more so since AI. If you only build or only grow, you slow down and waste money.\n\n### Just building – fails\n\n-   **Opinion-driven roadmaps** ship features no one needs\n-   **Slow time to revenue** – months to the first payers\n-   **No product-market-fit signals** – activation and retention unknown\n-   **Team bloat** over AI and automation; burn climbs, speed drops\n-   **Vanity metrics** replace cohort learning and survey truth\n\n### Just growing – also fails\n\n-   **Detached funnels** chase clicks, not product usage\n-   **Acquisition cost inflates,** payback drags, churn stays high\n-   **Slow learning loop** – insights never shape the roadmap\n-   **Onboarding ignored** – activation flatlines, retention stays weak\n-   **Vanity dashboards** hide what the product-market-fit survey says\n\n[What now?](https://pirateskills.com/#solution)\n\n## Build and grow – one craft, practiced together\n\nShip a narrow working tool fast with AI, validate it with activation, retention and product-market-fit signals, and scale only when the unit economics work. Small on purpose, evidence over ego, priced on value.\n\n[See Pirate Forge](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/forge)\n\n## Learn from a serial founder with real-world experience\n\nProven strategies from someone who has actually been in the arena.\n\n![Ben Sufiani, founder of Pirate Skills](https://pirateskills.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbasr4pkoyz87y0pt.public.blob.vercel-storage.com%2Fimages%2Fmarketing%2Fben-sufiani.jpg&w=3840&q=75)\n\n### Ben Sufiani\n\nThe Captain\n\nFounder from Cologne, Germany with 15 years of startup experience across 10 ventures. After helping thousands of entrepreneurs master growth marketing, Ben became a beginner again at the start of 2025 – learning vibe coding from scratch. Within three months he launched his first SaaS, [CaptAIn](https://pirateskills.com/lab/chat), with paying customers. His latest venture, [Bridesmaid.Love](https://bridesmaid.love/), is an AI wedding planner built in 24 hours at a vibe hackathon. Now he leads the Vibe Coding Cologne community, blending real founder scars with a teacher's clarity to help non-technical founders finally ship.\n\nLevel\n\n44\n\nFounder XP\n\n15 years\n\nKids\n\n2\n\nStartups\n\n10\n\nCustomers\n\n250+\n\nWorkshops\n\n1,000+\n\n#### Special skills\n\n-   Entrepreneurship95%\n\n-   Vibe coding87%\n\n-   Vibe marketing98%\n\n-   Agentic automation91%\n\n-   Patience2%\n\n[Connect on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bensufiani/)\n\n## A personal message from the Captain\n\nThe story behind Pirate Skills, and why product and growth should be one craft.\n\n**What is Pirate Skills?**\n\nPirate Skills helps founders and marketers grow their business and build their own software with AI: free events in Cologne and online, the Growth Codex and the Builder Codex, two monthly passes and a live cohort with Ben Sufiani.\n\n[About us(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/about)\n\n**Do I need to be technical?**\n\nNo. The events are made for founders and marketers, not developers, and the Builder Codex starts at zero – vibe coding means building software with AI by describing what you want.\n\n[Start the Builder Codex(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/build/codex/start)\n\n**Are the events free?**\n\nMost are: the Pirate Lab, the AI Compass and Vibe Coding Cologne are free. The Vibe Hackathon and the Forge cohort are paid. Every event page says what it costs.\n\n[See all events(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/events)\n\n**What is the difference between the Pirate Pass and the Forge Pass?**\n\nBoth are monthly. The Pirate Pass gives you a free hackathon ticket every three months and gold for CaptAIn, our AI assistant. The Forge Pass adds the live 12-week Build and Grow cohort with Ben, with recordings and workbooks.\n\n[Compare the passes(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/pirate-pass)\n\n**Can I get my money back?**\n\nYes. If a pass is not for you, you get the first month back in full within 14 days.\n\n**Can my AI assistant use Pirate Skills?**\n\nYes. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and it can search the codices, find events and book for you – after you sign in with your Pirate Skills account.\n\n[Set it up(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/agents)\n\n## Why join the navy when you can be a pirate?\n\nStart with a free event – meet the crew, see what people build, and find your next step.\n",
  "fullPageMarkdown": "Pirate Skills\n\n[Skip to content](https://pirateskills.com/#content)\n\n![](https://pirateskills.com/pirate-skills-icon-dark.svg?dpl=dpl_AiJE2iS1mDh24DEAktp1YD7fFrmf)Pirate Skills# Build. Grow. Repeat.\n\nVibe coding and growth marketing as one craft – for founders and marketers building their own products and growing them into predictable revenue.\n\n[Find your path](https://pirateskills.com/#pirate-overview)\n\n100+ vibe coders and marketers join every month · 2,000+ since June 2025\n\n## Find your way around\n\nEverything Pirate Skills offers in one quick map – free events, free resources, paid programs. New here? Start here.\n\n### Vibe Coding Cologne\n\nMonthly [hybrid meetup](https://pirateskills.com/events/vibe-coding-cologne) at STARTPLATZ Cologne. Share real-world AI coding projects, discover new tools and use cases, and trade workflows with builders shipping with AI. Show up in person, dial in remote, or grab the recording.\n\nOnce a quarter we run the [Vibe Hackathon](https://pirateskills.com/events/vibe-hackathon-cologne) – a weekend sprint to build an AI product end-to-end.\n\nFree event[Learn more](https://pirateskills.com/events/vibe-coding-cologne)\n\n### Pirate Lab\n\nOne free [monthly online session](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/lab) covering vibe coding, vibe marketing, and the Build-Grow-Repeat playbook. Meet Ben, ask anything, find your bottleneck.\n\nFree event[Learn more](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/lab)\n\n### Insights\n\nWeekly insights for founders. Each one a 7-Day Ship Plan. Read as an [article](https://pirateskills.com/insights), watch on [YouTube](https://youtube.com/@pirateskills), or listen as a [podcast](https://pirateskills.com/podcast).\n\nFree resource[Learn more](https://pirateskills.com/insights)\n\n### Pirate Codex\n\nThe founder's playbook for [building](https://pirateskills.com/build/codex) (vibe coding) and [growing](https://pirateskills.com/grow/codex) (vibe marketing) your first SaaS.\n\nFree resource[Learn more](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/codex)\n\n### Captain on Deck\n\n1-on-1 access to Ben's growth brain for your toughest challenges. 15 years of experience across founding, scaling teams, and solving the technical + strategic problems you're facing right now. Book a [30 min call](https://cal.com/bensufiani/30min) with Ben to get started.\n\nPaid program[Learn more](https://pirateskills.com/captain-on-deck)\n\n### Pirate Forge\n\nBuild. Grow. Repeat. From zero dev skills to your first vibe-coded, revenue-generating SaaS – together, [in 12 weeks](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/forge). Six Build workshops + six Grow workshops, live with Ben on Zoom, with the recordings, the Pirate Codex and a private builder crew. On the [Forge Pass](https://pirateskills.com/passes), which includes the Pirate Pass and its free hackathon ticket every three months.\n\nPaid program[Learn more](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/forge)\n\n[Start with a free event](https://pirateskills.com/#upcoming-events)\n\n## Upcoming events\n\nBuild products faster and grow steady revenue at our hands-on meetups, labs and hackathons.\n\n[\n\nOCT21\n\n### Open Your Vault to Agents\n\nOct 21, 202618:00–19:00 CESTOnlineFreePirate Lab\n\nYour website is a teller who needs to see a face. We open the pirateskills.com vault live – the Captain, MCP, API keys, the CLI and the skill – and you leave with the first action in your own app that an agent can use.\n\nDetails\n\n](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/lab/2026-10-21)\n\n[\n\nOCT28\n\n### AI Compass\n\nOct 28, 202618:00–19:00 CETOnlineFreeAI Compass\n\nLet's go past ChatGPT to see what AI can do for you and your business – level up from chat to co-work to code\n\nDetails\n\n](https://pirateskills.com/aicompass/2026-10-28)\n\n[\n\nNOV4\n\n### Vibe Coding Cologne\n\nNov 4, 202618:30–21:00 CETSTARTPLATZ CologneFreeVibe Coding Cologne\n\nLet's connect among AI enthusiasts and context engineers to explore the good, the bad and the arrrsome of AI\n\nDetails\n\n](https://pirateskills.com/events/vibe-coding-cologne/2026-11-04)\n\n[\n\nNOV20\n\n### Vibe Hackathon Cologne\n\nNov 20 – 22, 202614:30–16:00 CETSTARTPLATZ Cologne€90Vibe Hackathon Cologne\n\n48-hour hackathon where you build working AI prototypes alongside experienced practitioners.\n\nDetails\n\n](https://pirateskills.com/events/vibe-hackathon-cologne/2026-11-20)\n\n[View all events](https://pirateskills.com/events)\n\n## Product and growth should never have grown so far apart\n\nSplitting product, sales and marketing is a mistake – more so since AI. 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Small on purpose, evidence over ego, priced on value.\n\n[Build### Builder Codex\n\nThe guide to AI-assisted development: prompts, workflows and best practices that keep a team lean and shipping.\n\n](https://pirateskills.com/build/codex)[Grow### Growth Codex\n\nOur six-part growth marketing framework – data-driven, tested in the field with real SaaS products and measurable results.\n\n](https://pirateskills.com/grow/codex)[Build and grow, live### Pirate Forge\n\nBuild your SaaS product with AI and grow it to paying customers – in one 12-week program. Ship features with authentication, database and payments in the first half, then master activation, retention and revenue growth in the second.\n\n](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/forge)\n\n[See Pirate Forge](https://pirateskills.com/pirate/forge)\n\n## Learn from a serial founder with real-world experience\n\nProven strategies from someone who has actually been in the arena.\n\n![Ben Sufiani, founder of Pirate Skills](https://pirateskills.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbasr4pkoyz87y0pt.public.blob.vercel-storage.com%2Fimages%2Fmarketing%2Fben-sufiani.jpg&w=3840&q=75)\n\n### Ben Sufiani\n\nThe Captain\n\nFounder from Cologne, Germany with 15 years of startup experience across 10 ventures. After helping thousands of entrepreneurs master growth marketing, Ben became a beginner again at the start of 2025 – learning vibe coding from scratch. Within three months he launched his first SaaS, [CaptAIn](https://pirateskills.com/lab/chat), with paying customers. 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The founders who win are the ones who treat building and growing as one craft – shipping working software fast while running growth experiments that tell you what to build next.\n\nThat's why Pirate Skills exists: to help solo founders and lean crews turn ideas into profitable SaaS products without big teams or endless outsourcing. Whether you're productizing a service, launching your first SaaS, or trying to make monthly revenue predictable, I'll teach you to vibe code with AI and run the growth experiments that actually matter – activation, retention and real product-market-fit signals, not vanity metrics.\n\nThrough the Builder Track (vibe coding, ship features) and the Grower Track (experiments, optimize revenue), you'll learn to build, grow and repeat as one continuous loop. We teach independence – no done-for-you dependency. 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Ask CaptAIn – it knows the events, the passes and the codices.\n\n[Ask CaptAIn(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/captain)\n\n**What is Pirate Skills?**\n\nPirate Skills helps founders and marketers grow their business and build their own software with AI: free events in Cologne and online, the Growth Codex and the Builder Codex, two monthly passes and a live cohort with Ben Sufiani. [About us(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/about)\n\n**Do I need to be technical?**\n\nNo. The events are made for founders and marketers, not developers, and the Builder Codex starts at zero – vibe coding means building software with AI by describing what you want. [Start the Builder Codex(opens in a new tab)](https://pirateskills.com/build/codex/start)\n\n**Are the events free?**\n\nMost are: the Pirate Lab, the AI Compass and Vibe Coding Cologne are free. The Vibe Hackathon and the Forge cohort are paid. Every event page says what it costs. 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    "controlStatus": 200,
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    "discriminates": false,
    "refusedAsBot": false,
    "edge": "Vercel",
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    "detail": "This origin answers OAI-SearchBot exactly as it answers any other client (200). No edge-level filtering of AI crawlers observed."
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}

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