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CodeFast coding course: $7.7K in 30 days, built for beginners
CodeFast sells a coding course for building SaaS businesses and online products. Its $7.7K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.
What it actually sells
CodeFast sells a coding course for building SaaS businesses and online products. The site says it is for beginners and entrepreneurs who want to build apps, SaaS products, or online businesses.
The curriculum covers coding fundamentals, including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It also covers authentication, payments, databases, API routes, AI-powered coding, Git and GitHub, Node.js, and AI-powered design.
How it charges
CodeFast costs $169 USD with lifetime access and includes 12 hours of video content across 215 short lessons. A CodeFast and ShipFast bundle costs $299 USD.
Month by month
Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.
| Month | Revenue (USD) |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | $19,928 |
| 2025-11 | $29,989 |
| 2025-12 | $22,267 |
| 2026-01 | $23,516 |
| 2026-02 | $14,274 |
| 2026-03 | $8,268 |
| 2026-04 | $3,107 |
| 2026-05 | $8,359 |
| 2026-06 | $9,788 |
| 2026-07 | $6,682 |
| 2026-08 | $4,849 |
| 2026-09 | $7,748 |
Where customers come from
The site says 4,460 entrepreneurs and students learned with CodeFast. Marc Lou says 135k people trust him on Twitter, and the course includes a private Discord community for support and learner interaction.
What stands out
CodeFast packages 12 hours of video content into 215 short lessons. The course took 9 months and was shaped by 50 students in a beta.
From the official site
Everything you need to build your SaaS or any online business—even as a complete beginner.
Lifetime access to the CodeFast: 12 hours of video content ( 215 short lessons) to learn how to code from 0.
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
CodeFast's $7.7K in the last 30 days is higher than 92% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Education” category (517 projects) it is higher than 94% (category median $156). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
My view: the buyer is a beginner or entrepreneur who wants practical coding knowledge for building an app, SaaS product, or online business. Demand would come from people searching for structured instruction that moves from fundamentals into product features.
Distribution would need to come from the founder’s audience, search, communities, and other channels where beginners look for coding education. The hard parts are producing accurate course material, keeping it current, supporting learners, and competing for attention in the education and coding-course market.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
CodeFast presents a defined beginner audience, a $169 USD lifetime-access price, and a curriculum spanning coding fundamentals, SaaS features, and AI-powered coding and design.
Sources
- CodeFast official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure