I've been printing t-shirts and merch for 10+ years in Lithuania. Good money. Stable clients. But every euro comes from me physically showing up. No leverage. No scale. No freedom.
In February 2026, I opened Xcode for the first time in my life. I had no idea what Swift was. No idea what an API is. No idea how the App Store even works behind the scenes.
Two weeks later, my app was live on the App Store. Not because I learned to code — because I learned to direct AI. I described what I wanted in plain English, Claude wrote the code, and I copy-pasted it into Xcode. When it broke, I screenshotted the error and sent it back. Repeat for 14 days.
The app makes $0 right now. I'm building in public, sharing everything — the wins, the embarrassing metrics, the failures that are definitely coming. No filters. No guru energy. Just a screen printer who thinks the gap between "has an idea" and "shipped it" just got a lot smaller.
The goal is $10K MRR from a portfolio of 5-10 simple apps. The reality is I'll probably fail at most of them. But I'll document every step so others can learn from it — whether I succeed or not.