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A Non-Programmer Built an App With AI and Made $30k. Then It Broke and He Paid My Friend $12k to Fix It

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Built in one weekend. Broken in one night. Fixed for $12,000.

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The phone rang at 2:40 in the morning.

My friend, Mr. Sajid (Fake name upon request), did not know the number. He answered anyway. In his line of work, a call at 2:40 AM always means the same thing. Somebody’s business is on fire, and they are ready to pay.

The voice on the other side belonged to a personal trainer. A fitness guy with a big Instagram following, and no idea how to write a single line of code.

“Are you a developer?” the man asked. “I need one right now. My app is charging people twice, and someone just saw another person’s data. I will pay whatever you want.”

That app had made him $30,000 in seven months.…