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A personal message from Chase

Let’s talk about you for a second.

You’re smart. Genuinely. You can make a computer do things most people think are witchcraft. You’ve read the docs. You have opinions about tabs.

So why is your bank account the least impressive thing about you?

A developer mid-spin in an office chair, arms flung wide, laptop sliding off his knees — you, on a Tuesday

Here’s what I think happened. You got very good at building things and very bad at getting paid for them. You have a folder called side-projects with eleven things in it. Every one of them is 80% done. Not one of them has ever sent an invoice.

Meanwhile, the guy who called you to fix his printer last Christmas just quit his job. He’s charging dentists every month for an AI that answers their phones. He doesn’t know what an API is. He doesn’t need to.

He’s using the same AI you have open in another tab right now.

Read that again.

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Be honest. How many of these are you?

You've said “I could build that in a weekend” about a company that's now hiring.
You've bought a domain at 1am. You've bought several domains at 1am.
Your most-starred project is your dotfiles.
You've rewritten the same app in three frameworks and launched it in zero.
You know exactly how you'd scale to a million users. You have none.
Your AI subscriptions have made more money off you than you've made off them.

Three or more? Keep reading. Zero? You’re lying. Also keep reading.

Two developers. Same AI.

One of them is you. Guess which.

Left: a developer hunched over a laptop in a dark room full of empty cans. Right: Chase and Jessica laughing beside a hypercar on a sunny Miami street. — Writes better code. Has never sent an invoice.Writes worse code. Sends invoices.

The difference isn’t talent. You have more of that than he does. The difference is he points the AI at things people already pay for, and you point it at a to-do app.

Picture it anyway. Monday morning, you open your laptop, and before you’ve finished your coffee there’s money in the account that wasn’t there Friday. Not from a job. From a thing you built in a week and stopped touching. Nobody asked you to stand up and say what you did yesterday.

That’s not a fantasy. It’s a pricing page and an afternoon you keep not spending.

Why you’re still broke

It’s not skill. It’s never been skill. It’s these three:

You build for developers.

Developers don't pay for anything. You know this because you are one, and you've never paid for anything.

You think boring is an insult.

Invoices. Intake forms. Appointment reminders. Nobody posts about them, and everybody pays for them. Boring is where the money hides.

You stop at “it works.”

“It works” is where the money starts. Pricing, a landing page, the first ten customers: the part you skip is the part that pays.

Alright. Enough about your failures.

Here’s the part where I fix them. Every Monday. For free.

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A heavyset developer slouched in a mesh office chair with a laptop on his belly and an enormous soda — — Has not moved since standup.

A wiry developer at a standing desk vibrating with caffeine, an energy drink in each hand — — Four cans deep, one commit in.

An engineering manager in a quilted vest holding a ping-pong paddle instead of a laptop — — Circling back on the roadmap.

“But Chase…”

I’ve heard every excuse. Mostly from you.

“Is this a scam?”

Scams cost money. This is free. The worst thing that happens is you get an email every Monday and feel bad about yourself, which you were going to do anyway.

“I don't have time.”

You just read this far. You have time. You’re spending it here.

“I'm not a business person.”

Correct. That’s why you need this. The business part, in plain English, for people who’d rather be in a terminal.

“Will I actually get rich?”

Not from reading. Nobody gets rich from a newsletter, including the people who write them. You’ll get one play a week. Getting rich is the part where you do it.

“Who even is Chase?”

A character: the newsletter’s voice, illustrated. The plays are real. The tan is drawn on.

You have two options.

Option A

Close this tab.

Go back to the side project. Tweak the README. Tell yourself you’ll subscribe tomorrow. You won’t. Same room, same cans, same Monday.

Option B

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P.P.S. Jessica bet me you wouldn’t. She’s usually right.

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