Half of building software (with the help of AI) is knowing how to prompt. Half of knowing how to prompt is knowing what you want to build. Half of knowing what you want to build is knowing how to build it.
Even with the best AI coding assistants, I still run into all kinds of mysterious issues. Why things work on my computer, but not in production? 2 hours later and we are still nowhere close to a solution. Still so much to learn. So, so much to learn.
Granted, I'm only halfway through my 'learning to code' journey.
But I've a feeling I'll always be "halfway through", because the milestone keeps moving.
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.
