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A student built a working two-room community platform for a coach

A fully functional membership platform with a guided room and an open forum, built with Claude Code for a manifestation coach.

This student set out to give a manifestation coach a home for her clients, and came back with a fully functional platform. It has two distinct spaces, an admin dashboard, sign-up and checkout wired together. It shows how far a clear idea and an AI coding tool can carry someone in a single program.

Saul Ancona
A builder who created a community platform for a manifestation coach and her clients.
Journey with VRD & Elite Secret Society

Before

The coach needed a way to deepen client engagement and give her community a place to gather. Prompts, meditations, trainings and events needed one home. Some clients wanted quiet guidance, others wanted to talk directly with the coach.

“An open-forum community where members can interact directly with the coach, share success stories, and discuss their goals in real time.”

In their own words

The turning point

During the program, the student turned to Claude Code to build the platform themselves. They designed two experiences side by side: a focused, admin-led room and an open forum. They also connected sign-up and checkout through a webhook so members flow in and back without friction.

After

Today the platform is live with real members. In Journey with VRD, the coach shares daily journal prompts and voice notes while the chat stays admin-only. In the Elite Secret Society, members introduce themselves, share what they are manifesting and talk with the coach in real time.

What it lets people do

Members get a calm, guided space for prompts, meditations and links to trainings, or an open community where they can share success stories. The coach can lock or open each room, choose who may speak, invite members and manage a library of prompts and links.

What they learned

The student learned that the shape of a space shapes how people show up in it. A focused, guided room and an open, lively one serve different needs, and building both lets a coach meet people where they are.

“The platform was built using Claude Code.”

In their own words

See the work

The two rooms: Journey with VRD and Elite Secret Society
Daily journal prompts and voice notes in the guided room
Members sharing their manifestations in the open forum
Admin dashboard with chat lock and allowed speakers
Sign-up screen for the Journey with VRD community

Journey with VRD & Elite Secret Society was built during AI Mastery.

Read the full submission
A fully functional membership platform built for a manifestation coach, designed to deepen client engagement and community interaction. The platform features two subscription tiers: Journey with VRD (Basic Membership): An admin-curated experience featuring journal prompts, guided meditations, and links to trainings and events. The chat is admin-only to maintain a focused, guided environment. Elite Secret Society: An open-forum community where members can interact directly with the coach, share success stories, and discuss their goals in real time. The platform was built using Claude Code. Users sign up via email (phone authentication coming soon), with payments and onboarding handled through ThriveCart via webhook integration — users are seamlessly redirected to complete checkout and returned to the platform upon completion. https://journey-vrd-community.vercel.app/

Written 12 February 2026 Submitted by the storyteller

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