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A Lost Kid Built a Tech Empire.

CS Degree β†’ GED
$500K Seed Round β†’ $35K savings
Co-founder β†’ Claude AI
Permission β†’ None needed

The raw, unfiltered story of building a tech empire with AI, grit, and zero permission. No guru advice. No course upsell. Just the truth.

πŸ”₯ Memoir
⚑ 8 months
πŸ’° $8.99 Kindle
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A lost kid from alternative school. A GED. $35,000 in savings. Zero coding experience. No investors. No co-founder. No permission.

Eight months later: two companies, a custom CEO dashboard with eight API integrations, an open-source npm package, 370+ SEO-optimized blog posts with interactive calculators, six published books, and a real estate technology platform that makes the competition look like they're still using fax machines.

That's not a pitch deck. That's what actually happened.

Coding Crazy is the raw, unfiltered story of how I taught myself to code at 3 AM, built a nationwide real estate company powered by custom AI tools, and created PropTechUSA.ai β€” all while the rest of the industry was still figuring out how to use a CRM.

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This Isn't a Polished Origin Story

There's no seed funding. No Stanford dropout arc. No rented Lamborghini on the book cover. This is duct tape, determination, and deploying code at 4 AM from a laptop that overheats if you look at it wrong.

Every mistake is documented. The $500 Fiverr disaster that accidentally became the catalyst for learning full-stack development. The 10,000-line monolithic Cloudflare Worker that almost killed the business β€” and the architecture lesson that saved it. The moment I realized hiring is harder than coding.

This book is the receipts.

πŸ“‹ Inside the Book

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The $500 Fiverr Disaster
How a failed outsourcing attempt became the catalyst for learning full-stack development from scratch.
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The AI Orchestration System
The system that generates $100K worth of development work per week for $40/month in API costs.
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The 10,000-Line Worker
Why a monolithic Cloudflare Worker almost killed the business β€” and the architecture lesson that saved it.
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The Content Engine
The strategy behind 370+ blog posts that turn $47-per-click keywords into free organic traffic.
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Building AI Personalities
How to build AI that actually sounds human β€” not like a customer service robot reading a script.
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The CEO Dashboard
Eight API integrations feeding real-time business intelligence into one screen.
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Transparency as a Weapon
Why transparency is the most dangerous competitive weapon in an industry built on keeping people in the dark.
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Scaling From 12 to 120
The real math behind scaling deals β€” and why hiring is harder than coding.

Before and After

People ask what changed. Everything changed. But it didn't happen with a single breakthrough. It happened at 3 AM, every night, for months.

Before
GED, alternative school
$35K in savings
Zero lines of code written
Paying Fiverr devs
No tech skills
No industry credibility
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8 Months Later
CEO of two companies
$120K+ net profit
Full-stack developer
Open-source npm contributor
Six published books
370+ blog posts with live calculators

"Written with the same obsessive, late-night, can't-stop-won't-stop energy that built everything in it."

β€” From the Amazon description

Who This Is For

Coding Crazy is for anyone who's been told they can't β€” and decided to build anyway. It's not a coding tutorial. It's not a business course. It's the truth about what it takes to build something from nothing when nobody gives you permission.

No guru advice. No course upsell. Just the uncut story, the real numbers, and every mistake along the way.

You don't need permission to build. You don't need a degree. You just need to start.

Built Different

Six Books. Eight Months. One Platform.

Every book in the catalog β€” including this one β€” was produced on publish.proptechusa.ai, our AI-powered publishing platform. Same infrastructure. Same obsessive quality. Zero traditional publishing overhead.

Got a story worth telling or expertise worth publishing? The platform is live.

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The raw, unfiltered story. Every mistake. Every win. Every 3 AM deploy.
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Releases April 1, 2026 Β· Kindle Edition
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Justin Erickson
Founder & CEO β€” Local Home Buyers USA Β· PropTechUSA.ai
GED. Alternative school. Learned to code at 43. Built two companies, six books, and a tech platform in eight months. This is that story β€” documented in real time, with every mistake included.