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PRODUCTGROWTH
should have never grown so far apart
Splitting product, sales & marketing ia a mistake – more so since AI. If you only build or grow, you slow down and waste money.
Just Building — fails
- Opinion‑driven roadmaps ship features no one needs
- Slow time‑to‑revenue — months to first payers
- No PMF signals — activation/retention unknown
- Team bloat over AI/automation; burn climbs, speed drops
- Vanity metrics replace cohort learning and survey truth
Just Growing — also fails
- Detached funnels chase clicks, not product usage
- CAC inflates, payback drags, churn stays high
- Slow learning loop — insights never shape the roadmap
- Onboarding ignored — activation flatlines, retention weak
- Vanity dashboards hide PMF survey truth
BUILDGROW
one craft — practiced together
Equip lean crews to Build – Grow – Repeat: ship a narrow working tool fast with AI, validate with activation, retention, and PMF signals, and scale only when unit economics work. Small on purpose, evidence over ego, price on value.
Builder Track
Monthly Free Events
Builder Lab
Let's sharpen your builder game with the latest in vibe coding and AI workflows 🤖 to ship your SaaS ideas even faster
Online Resources
Vibe Coding Codex
Comprehensive guide to AI-assisted development with best practices. Master prompt engineering and AI-first workflows that keep your team lean and productive.
Quarterly Workshop Cohorts
Zero to SaaS
Build and launch your SaaS product from scratch using AI in 6 weeks. No experience — AI writes the code, you guide it. Ship features with authentication, database, and payments.
Growth Track
Monthly Free Events
Growth Lab
Let's level up your growth engine with the newest AI tools and experiments to acquire a 💩 ton of quality SaaS customers
Online Resources
Pirate Playbook
Our 6-part growth marketing framework that helps you grow your business. Data-driven strategies tested in the field with real SaaS products and measurable results.
Quarterly Workshop Cohorts
Growth Forge
6 intensive workshops in 6 weeks covering all core growth marketing areas, every quarter. Master activation, retention, and revenue growth with cohort analysis and PMF validation.
Learn from a serial founder with real-world experience
Proven strategies from someone who's actually been in the arena
Ben Sufiani
The Captain
Founder from Cologne, Germany with 15 years of startup experience across 9 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, with paying customers. Now he leads the Vibe Coding Cologne community, blending real founder scars with a teacher's clarity to help non-technical founders finally ship.
SPECIAL SKILLS
A Personal Message from the Captain
Discover the story behind Pirate Skills and why product & growth should be one craft
Hi, I'm Ben, the founder of Pirate Skills.
I started Pirate Skills in 2016, and after 15 years of building nine startups, I've learned something crucial: splitting product and marketing is a huge mistake. 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.
That'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 MRR predictable, I'll teach you to vibe code with AI and run the growth experiments that actually matter— activation, retention, and real PMF signals, not vanity metrics.
Through the Builder Track (vibe coding, ship features) and Grower Track (experiments, optimize revenue), you'll learn to Build → Grow → Repeat as one continuous loop. We teach independence—no done-for-you dependency. You get hands-on courses, live bootcamps, battle-tested playbooks, and a community of founders who are doing it themselves, keeping crews small on purpose.
Pirate Skills is built on my passion for independence and experimentation. It's about enabling you to build software customers truly want and grow predictable MRR without permission. That's what we do here: one craft, lean crews, AI-first—building and growing as one.
So, why join the navy when you can be a pirate? Join me on this journey, and let's build and grow together—one craft, no limits.
AARRR!
Ben Sufiani
Founder & Captain