Aerilon Month 1 Day 1 (Part 2 of 2)

10k Hours Progress (11.73%)

$10k/mo Progress (26.24%)

// Aerilon Month 1 Day 1 (Part 2 of 2)

23 October 2025

Today's full focus will be on completing Day 1's remaining tasks, which is to set up cold email and start the warmup process:

Sign up for Instantly ✅ DONE
Sign up for Zapmail ✅ DONE
Buy 3 more domains for cold emailing ✅ DONE
Set up 3 mailboxes per domain (total 12 mailboxes) ✅ DONE

I don't like that I have to split a day's tasks into two days, but it is what it is.

As I said yesterday, part of this journey is learning to be not so hard on myself.

Found more weight plates while digging around Dad's junkyard, I mean, "storage". Now I can go back to my regular weight lifts. Happy!

The good news is I have 2 new client projects. These and Aerilon will be my main focus until the end of the year.

Earned: $4,466.69 // Time: 8.5 hours

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About

I have a degree in Marketing Management from University of Otago, New Zealand. I ran a successful restaurant for 13 years in Singapore, a brutally competitive market for F&B. I also ran a bakery for 7 of those years. I sold both businesses for 6 figures in 2019.

Then I taught myself to code, and have been working in software since. In 2021, I was hired as General Manager for a restaurant software startup, where I helped market and grow the app to $400k/year revenue.

On the side, I started building my own small projects, aimed at near-passive income. So began a 10,000-hour-long experiment to see if I can make $10k/month by "f*cking around and finding out". This blog is a daily record of the real hours spent & dollars earned.

Banner art L-R © Me, Citadel 9, me, me, me.

Inspirations:
Daily blogging - Alex West
Design - JWZ, p0libius
10k Hours - Ryan Kulp

Stats

Journey start: 28 March 2022

Progress logs: 226

∑ Time spent: 1172.7 hours (11.73% to 10k)

Avg time/mo: 23.1 hours

∑ Dollars earned: $133,271.02

$/mo: $2,624.04 (26.24% to $10k/m)

$/hour: $113.64