We've only ever believed one thing: you learn by shipping.
exp.club started with a hashtag — #LetsGetReal — and a bet: real experience beats another certificate.
Five cohorts later, the bet has receipts: every team launched by Demo Day, and every product is on /shipped.

I'm Ankur. My whole career is one problem, worked from every side I could reach.
You can't get experience without a job, and you can't get the job without experience. I've spent years on that loop — a startup I built during my MBA in 2018 (getxp.in : earn experience by doing real projects, show employers the work), the placements program I ran at Coding Ninjas (a large coding-education company), a 15,000-member volunteer product community I co-founded in the COVID years, and most recently Virtual Internships , where as Head of Product I helped place 8,000+ interns across 2,000+ companies. Every one of them taught the same lesson from a different side of the desk: proof beats credentials — and proof doesn't happen without structure. Recruiters skim past a hundred identical CVs and stop at the one person who built something real. And even fifteen thousand motivated people drift without a deadline and someone whose actual job is to make sure things ship.
So that's what exp.club has always promised: not lessons, a finish line. For five cohorts, we put a product manager, a designer, and an engineer on one team — because that's what shipping a real product took — and they shipped.
Then the ground shifted under my own feet. At Virtual Internships , with AI at my disposal, I stopped just leading product and started shipping it myself — one person, with agents, doing what used to take that whole team. I didn't theorize the one-person product team. I became one. This website is the latest thing I shipped that way.
The conviction never moved. The leverage finally caught up.
Ankur Goyal · founder, exp.club · linkedin
AI collapsed the team of three into one builder.
The AI Builders Program is the result: Six weeks, one real product, launched at a real domain. No tutorials, no theater. Complete the weekly work, and if you haven’t launched by Demo Day, we refund you 100%. Read /refund-policy
We didn't reinvent exp.club; we purified it. Experience was always the point — AI just changed how much of it one person can compress. The full argument is in /manifesto.
where it led
See the program it turned into.
Six weeks, one builder, one real product — with a cohort, mentors, and a deadline.