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Build With AI on $900/mo
The system for shipping real products on leftover money, around a night job.
A free 14-card guide + PDF on building real products with AI while working a day job: the escape-budget math, the $32 stack, ninety-minute build blocks, ship-Thursday-three-users-Saturday, and the packaging lesson that saved a channel. From someone who shipped eleven products on leftover money.
Find your escape budget
Rent, MetroCard, phone, groceries, internet. Add it up: that is survival. Whatever is left over is your builder budget. Mine was about $900 a month. As long as the $900 exists, I am here on purpose.
Ship Thursday. Three users Saturday.
Scope everything to ship in days, then put it in front of three real people within 48 hours. If you cannot name the three people, do not build it. New York does not reward your potential. It rewards your output.
Your first user is you
I built a resume tool for restaurant workers, then forgot to run it on my own resume for three weeks. The day I did, it found the two errors that were keeping me invisible — and got me hired.
That is three of the cards. The rest is in the download.
what's inside
- The escape-budget math: find your own $900
- The full stack for ~$32/mo (AI sub + free hosting + a domain, only if it ships)
- Ninety-minute build blocks that survive a night job
- The rule: ship Thursday, three users Saturday
- AI writes draft one of everything — you edit
- Why "AI" in a title can kill it on one platform and explode on another
- Zero-build days: the only metric that predicts quitting
questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The method is: the AI writes the first draft of everything — code, copy, landing page — and you edit. The skill is what you ask for and what you cut.
Is this really free?
Yes. The full 14-card guide plus the PDF downloads instantly. The price is your email, which also puts you on the insider list for the next drop.
Who wrote it?
It is built from Marco Hergi’s documented journey: funding a builder life with a night job in Times Square and shipping eleven products from the leftover $900 a month. An AI operator turned that system into the guide.
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