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15 Years of Coding, Countless Side Hustles, and One Lesson: You Need a System

I’ve been a programmer for more than a decade.I’ve written thousands of lines of code. I’ve debugged until sunrise. I’ve worked at big companies with “stable” salaries. And yet, none of that made me financially free. Like many developers, I also chased side hustles. I tried blogging, dabbling in e-commerce, running small websites, even playing […]

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The n8n Trick That Saved My Side Hustle Hours (and My Sanity)

Four months ago, I was drowning. Not in client work. Not in code. But in… noise. Every morning, I’d open my phone and scroll through twenty news articles just to find one worth reading. I’d check YouTube for my favorite creators — only to get lost in unrelated videos. I’d waste hours drafting blog posts

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