Build with AI.Think like an engineer.Ship real-life solutions.
TechDojo is a 12-week, hands-on academy that takes you from beginner to product engineer: someone who turns an idea into a live product people use, with AI as a tool and real fundamentals underneath. You learn by building, with expert teaching and support, in person at a CyberCafe 2.0 hub or online.
A dojo is where you practise until it is yours.
Watching tutorials feels like progress. It rarely is. At TechDojo you open your laptop and make something every day. You get stuck, you work it out, and you explain what you did. That is how people become builders.
Product engineer is the name for what you grow into: someone who takes an idea from first sketch to a live product, and can explain every decision along the way.
We teach the whole craft, not just code: finding a problem worth solving, designing for the people who will use it, building it, and getting it live.
Learn. Build. Deploy.
Three habits, repeated every day until they stick.
Learn
Start with how the web really works, in plain language. Short, focused lessons, then straight into practice. Nothing assumes you know it already.
Build
Every day adds to a real product you are making from scratch: the screens, the database, a phone app and AI features.
Deploy
Put it online, test it with real people and present it yourself. You leave with a live product and a record of how you built it.
Twelve weeks. One path from beginner to product engineer.
Each phase builds on the last, and each one ends with something you can show. By week twelve you have taken a real product from idea to live.
Find the problem. Design the product.
Product management and UI/UX design. You learn to understand a real problem, define what to build and shape the experience before writing code.
Make it work on screen.
Frontend development and database fundamentals. Designs become working interfaces that store and retrieve real information.
Connect everything.
Full-stack web and mobile development. One product, end to end, on the web and on a phone.
Add intelligence.
AI integration and workflow automation. You add useful AI features, with a human in charge of the decisions that matter.
Make it trustworthy.
Testing, debugging, privacy and security. You learn to make software reliable, safe and respectful of people's data.
Ship it.
Deployment, monitoring, analytics and go-to-market. You put it live, watch how people use it and learn to tell its story.
From first day to graduation.
Six steps that make your progress visible, to you and to everyone who looks at your work.
Apply
A short baseline assessment shows where you are starting from.
Learn
Expert lessons, facilitators in the hub or online, and AI-assisted practice.
Build
Your project moves through milestones and release gates.
Defend
Submit your work, get code reviews and explain it live.
Real-world practice
Supervised experience with real small businesses, so your skills meet real needs.
Graduate
A portfolio and a competency record of what you can do.
Built around how people actually learn.
- Start where you are. No coding background needed. We begin at the beginning.
- Understand what you build. You explain your work in your own words before you move on. Understanding is the standard, not copying.
- Use AI like a pro. AI is your tutor and your tool. You learn when to trust it, when to question it and how to check its work.
- Make it real. Your project solves a real problem for real users. No throwaway exercises.
In a hub or online. Your choice.
The Academy runs both ways. In person, you learn in a CyberCafe 2.0 hub with reliable power, fast internet and proper workstations, with local facilitators beside you and a room full of people building too. Online, you follow the same curriculum, build the same kind of product and are held to the same standard, from wherever you are.
If you are ready to build, you belong here.
You do not need to be technical. You do need to be curious, consistent and able to commit focused time.
- Complete beginners who want a clear path into building real products
- Self-taught learners who want depth, discipline and honest feedback
- Aspiring founders who want to turn their own idea into a real product
- Anyone who wants to build and ship products for a job, for clients or for a business
- Anyone ready to treat the next twelve weeks as a serious commitment
Where product engineers are needed.
Two good paths open up once you can take an idea to a live product. Both start with the same twelve weeks.
Join teams building the new way
Some companies already work like this: small teams where engineers shape the product, talk to users and ship fast.
Around the worldPostHog, Vercel, Stripe, Notion, Supabase
In NigeriaFamasi, Town Web, Moniepoint
Build on your own terms
Work for yourself or for your community. Freelance for local businesses, run a small studio, start your own product, or build the tools a school, clinic or co-operative needs.
More freedom, your own clients, and problems you can see from your own street.
These companies are examples of where this kind of work happens. They are not TechDojo partners, and we cannot promise anyone a job. The job title varies, so search for “product engineer” or “full-stack product engineer”.
Builders are made by building. AI supports. People decide.
Save your place in the Academy.
This waitlist is for the full 12-Week Academy: the complete path from beginner to product engineer. Join and you will be the first to hear about Academy dates, format and fees.
- First access to Academy dates, format and fees
- Priority invitation as Academy places open
- A voice in shaping the programme
Already building, and ready to start now? The 90-day Pilot Cohort starts Mon 16 Nov. Apply for the Pilot Cohort →
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