Cohort 01 · Summer 2026 · Applications open
Ship the idea you’ve been carrying. In eight weeks, with a small cohort.
Platen Press is a guided build program for senior professionals who don’t write code. You arrive with one idea. You leave with something on the internet.
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✓ No prior code required✓ Eight-week commitment✓ Small cohort by design
// The program
Three movements. One finished thing.
Eight weeks. Three phases. One real artifact on a real domain by the end of week four.
01 — Build
Pair, demo, ship.
Pair sessions, weekly demos, real software. You'll have something that runs on a real domain by the end of week four.
02 — Tell
Write the launch.
The first hundred readers matter more than the next ten thousand. We write the post, the pitch, and the positioning together.
03 — Choose
Side, product, or pivot.
Week eight ends with a decision and the evidence to back it. You leave knowing what you have — not guessing.
We’re not teaching you a new tool. We’re helping you printthe thing you’d make if you had eight weeks of focus and a room of peers.— Tommy Schaal, founder