01 — Mae Hong Son, Thailand
From $1,490 / week · Oct 2026 – Jan 2027
The Promise
01 — Where
02 — Outcome
Why this exists
"Nine days. First app. No coding background. I was staying at Ying's farm outside Pai with a project I'd been putting off for years. Nothing pulling me away — no city errands, no commute, just jungle sounds and the work. I shipped a working, deployed website by day nine. When I got back to the city I couldn't replicate it. So I stopped trying to, and built the camp instead."
— one of Claude Camp's founders · Full story →
02 — The Rhythm
03 — Tracks
"You have an idea that has been sitting still for months. By Friday it is deployed, it is yours, and you built it — no prior code required."
"You know what you're building. This week you stop doing it slowly. Agents handle the repetitive work. You make the decisions."
04 — Pai, Thailand
Solar-powered bamboo bungalows on a working organic farm in Mae Hong Son — the remotest, quietest corner of Thailand. No city noise. No distractions. Two hundred megabits of fiber, because deep work needs a fast connection.
The farm sits above the valley haze. Mornings are cool enough to think clearly. Afternoons are cool enough to walk to the hot springs without breaking a sweat. The food on your plate came from the soil twenty meters away — no pesticides, no supply chain, just Ying and the earth. Meat from hill tribe villages up the road. Vegetarian fully catered. Eating well is part of the week.
05 — Excursions
On your first morning a local monk ties a white Sai Sin thread around your wrist. An old blessing for a new beginning. The week starts with that weight on your arm.
Eight kilometers from the farm. You stand on a knife-edge ridge as the whole valley catches fire beneath you. Tuesday evening. No one is looking at a screen.
Paddle by bamboo raft through an underground river past teak coffins two thousand years old. At dusk, tens of thousands of bats spiral out — a living river above your head.
Friday afternoon in a village kitchen. Mortar and pestle, fresh galangal, kaffir lime leaves torn by hand. You leave knowing how to make one dish perfectly, and wanting to make it every week.
The last evening. Hand-printed certificates on Saa paper, names pressed in ink. Krathong on the water, candles drifting downstream. Seven strangers leave as the group who built this thing together.
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Before you decide
Claude Camp didn't start as a course — it started as a 9-day build. One of our founders came to the farm with no coding background and a project they'd put off for years. Using Claude Code and nothing else, they shipped a real, deployed product by day nine: Boromastery, a video-course business that's still live today. The week you're looking at is built to compress that same window for you.
06 — Invest
Founding cohort pricing — the lowest this will ever be. 14 cohorts running weekly, Oct 2026 – Jan 2027. Seven beds per cohort.
Be honest about the number. Back home, $1,490 is roughly seven nights in a bare hotel room — or a single premium concert ticket for one night standing in a crowd. Here, that same number covers seven nights in your own open-air bungalow, three meals a day cooked fresh on the farm, hot springs every afternoon, every excursion in Pai, and a full week of guided, one-on-one building sessions. Thailand isn't as cheap as people assume — but this isn't a course you're buying. It's the week that makes the work possible. You fly home with a real, deployed app, not a hotel receipt.
There's a $6 shared minivan from Chiang Mai airport (Aya Service) — we'll send the booking link and tell the driver where to drop you. The $140 transfer is for when you'd rather not think about it.
07 — Your Hosts
“I have been building this farm for most of my adult life — twenty years in Mae Hong Son Province, the last two here in Pai. The garden, the kitchen, the rhythm of the place: that came first. Then guests started arriving with laptops and ideas, and I watched something I hadn’t expected. They built things in a week they had been planning for years. Claude Code closed the gap between an idea and a working product in a way I had not seen before. Claude Camp is what the farm became once we stopped pretending those two worlds — the quiet of northern Thailand and the urgency of shipping something real — could not exist together.”
Ying has lived in Mae Hong Son Province for over twenty years — the last two in Pai, where she built this farm from the ground up. The garden, the kitchen, the whole living texture of the place is her work. She’s the reason every review mentions the food and the warmth in the same sentence. You’ll understand why by the second morning.
What guests actually say — verified Workaway reviews
This was the best way to start my trip in Thailand. My friend and I spent a week here, and we truly felt at home — not only was the work fun, but the conversations and cultural exchange were the highlight.
Nestled in the outskirts of Pai, one feels truly immersed in nature — peace and quiet all around. The view is also exceptional.
A beautiful little oasis just outside Pai. Relaxed and laid back — a few hours of work each day and plenty of time to explore Pai and its beautiful surroundings.
Not only are you welcomed by one of Pai’s most fantastic views, but also by one of the most knowledgeable people I’ve met on my travels.
08 — Before You Arrive
Two take ten minutes. One you already have. Everything else gets handled on Day 1.
Mac, Windows, or Linux. Any modern machine. Claude Code runs on all three, and you leave with a fully configured development environment on your own hardware — nothing borrowed, nothing shared, nothing that stops working when you get home.
Claude Code requires Anthropic's Pro plan at $20/month, billed directly to Anthropic. We don't provide access or share accounts. Subscribe at claude.ai before you arrive — or show up and we'll set it up together on Day 1. Either way, you're building by morning.
Anthropic's own data shows 90% of Claude Code users stay well within Pro limits — it's enough for a full week of intensive building. If you plan to keep going hard after camp, the Max plan ($100/month) gives you 5× the usage.
Not code. An idea. Claude Code writes the code — you supply the problem worth solving. Bring the app you've been putting off, the workflow you keep doing manually, the tool your business needs that doesn't exist yet. By Friday it runs. You built it.
09 — Getting Here
Fly into Chiang Mai. Then three hours of mountain road to the farm. We'll either pick you up in a private car ($140 round-trip on Standard, included on Premium) or point you at the $6 Aya minivan if you'd rather DIY. Either works — we ran it both ways for years.
Direct connections from Bangkok (BKK/DMK), Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and most regional Asian hubs. From North America or Europe, route via Bangkok or Singapore. Share your flight details one week before arrival and we group pickups where the timing lines up. Odd hours? WhatsApp Ying at +66 64 736 1455 — we work around it.
Private door-to-door transfer in an air-conditioned vehicle — $140 round-trip on Standard, included with Premium. Look for your name on a card; the driver knows where you're going. No taxi haggling, no Grab app at 1am. If you'd rather save the $140, the Aya shared minivan from CNX is $6 and we'll send you the link.
Three hours of mountain road, jungle either side, villages thinning out as you climb. We stop halfway for coffee at a viewpoint most guests photograph and nobody forgets. Treat the drive as the decompression lap — laptops stay closed.
Honest warning: the road is genuinely winding. If you're prone to motion sickness, bring Dramamine or ginger chews and sit in the front. Most people are fine after twenty minutes. We'd rather warn you than have you surprised.
Cold towel, a pot of butterfly pea tea, your bungalow key. Dinner is already on. You don't need to do anything for the rest of the evening. No car needed for the week — the farm is your base, excursions move as a group, and Pai town is a short hop if you want a night out.
Book into CNX, not BKK. Aim to land before 6pm local time if you can.
Aya Service runs shared minivans CNX → Pai for ~200 baht ($6). 3 hours, leaves hourly from in front of the terminal. We'll send the booking link and tell the driver where to drop you. Slower, tighter, totally fine — we did it ourselves for years.
Most passports (US, UK, EU, AU, CA, +60 others) get 60 days visa-exempt on arrival in Thailand. Check yours before booking flights.
Staying on in Pai or Chiang Mai after camp? Tell us when you book and we'll drop the return transfer.
WhatsApp +66 64 736 1455. A real human, usually answering within an hour.
11 — Or join the waitlist
Leave your email and we'll let you know when new cohorts open. No spam — one email when there's something real to share.
One email when dates lock in. Nothing else.
Claude Camp is a 7-day intensive bootcamp and retreat in Pai, Thailand, where founders, indie hackers, and developers use Claude Code — Anthropic's AI coding tool — to build and launch a working app. Cohorts are capped at 7 participants and hosted on an organic farm with solar power, 200 Mbps fiber, and daily guided building sessions.
No prior coding experience is required. Claude Code handles the code — participants supply the idea. Claude Camp runs separate tracks for non-technical founders and experienced developers, so both can work at the right depth. Guide for beginners →
Claude Code is an AI coding tool made by Anthropic that lets you build software by describing what you want in plain language. It writes, debugs, and iterates on code in real time. A Claude Pro subscription ($20/month from Anthropic) is required to use it. Full explainer →
You bring the idea; the camp provides the structure, instruction, and environment to ship it. Past participants have built SaaS tools, internal automation, client-facing apps, and personal projects they had been planning for years. By the end of the week, you have a working, deployed product.
Claude Camp is hosted on an organic mountain farm 7km outside Pai, in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand — 3 to 3.5 hours by road from Chiang Mai International Airport (CNX). The farm is solar-powered, has 200 Mbps fiber internet, and operates as a working garden.
Standard pricing starts at $1,490 for the full 7-day program, which is all-inclusive: accommodation, meals, instruction, and ground transport. A Premium tier includes private airport transfers and other upgrades. A deposit holds your seat; the remainder is due 30 days before arrival.
Claude Camp is a residential retreat, not a digital course. You live and work alongside 6 other builders for 7 days in northern Thailand. The immersive, distraction-free environment is the product: no Slack, no commute, no context-switching. You ship something real because there is nothing else to do.
Most nationalities — including US, UK, EU, Australian, and Canadian passport holders — receive a 60-day visa exemption on arrival in Thailand. Check your specific passport at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs website before booking.
Claude Code requires a paid Anthropic subscription. A Claude Pro plan ($20/month) gives access for light use; heavier development work typically uses the API with usage-based billing. At Claude Camp, participants budget roughly $50–150 in API costs for the week depending on how actively they build.
Cursor and GitHub Copilot are IDE plugins that assist while you write code manually. Claude Code operates differently — it reads your entire project, plans the work, and writes complete features on its own. This makes it faster for building from scratch but requires less manual coding skill. At Claude Camp, participants use Claude Code rather than Cursor because the goal is to ship a product, not to learn to type code. Full comparison →
Non-coders at Claude Camp have shipped: a client-facing booking tool with Stripe payments, an internal inventory dashboard, a lead-capture landing page with email automation, and a personal portfolio site with a CMS. The constraint isn't coding ability — it's clarity of idea. Claude Code handles the implementation; the participant supplies the vision and makes product decisions. How to use Claude Code →