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Vibe to First Sale: Vibecoding a Lean AI Business from $0 to $29

Turn AI into leverage, engineer your first $29 sale, and prove your business is real - in days, not months.

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Vibe to First Sale is a practical playbook for solo founders who want proof, not hype.


Vibe to First Sale is a practical playbook for solo founders who want proof, not hype.
​It's written by a professional online business owner and vibecoder who's been there and done that, somebody who's shipped real apps for more than a decade and reached 20M+ people with his web projects.

This book is built around one core idea:

Your first $29 sale is not about money.
It’s about proof of demand.

Instead of building complex startups, chasing vanity metrics, or waiting for perfect conditions, this book shows you how to:

  • Pick a sharp, sellable wedge niche
  • Run fast, ethical customer discovery
  • Craft a clear, outcome-driven promise
  • Build a lean MVP using AI as leverage
  • Pre-sell before overbuilding
  • Deliver value without burnout
  • Turn one small sale into a repeatable system

This is not a theory book.

It is a field manual for getting from $0 to your first real sale — as a solo founder, with limited time, using modern AI tools intelligently.

Who This Book Is For

This book is for you if:

  • You want to build a small, profitable AI-enabled business
  • You are tired of building projects that never sell
  • You want clarity instead of complexity
  • You value speed, truth-testing, and real-world feedback
  • You are willing to ship before you feel ready

It is especially useful for:

  • Indie hackers
  • Freelancers
  • Creators
  • Operators
  • Technical builders who struggle with positioning
  • Non-technical founders who want to leverage AI

Who This Book Is Not For

This book is not for:

  • People chasing venture capital from day one
  • Founders looking for passive income without work
  • Anyone unwilling to talk to real customers
  • Anyone who prefers planning over shipping

This is a builder’s book.

What Makes This Different

This book introduces a practical concept called vibecoding:

AI-assisted creation guided by human judgment.

AI is not the business.
AI is leverage.

You remain:

  • The strategist
  • The editor
  • The truth-tester

The goal is not to automate yourself out of relevance.
The goal is to move faster while staying grounded in reality.

What You’ll Walk Away With

By the end of this book, you will have:

  • A defined niche wedge
  • A sharp one-sentence positioning thesis
  • A clear $29 offer
  • A lean MVP
  • A repeatable loop for validation and iteration

Most importantly:

You will understand how to create demand on purpose.

The Real Outcome

The first sale changes your identity.

You are no longer “thinking about building.”

You are building.

And once you can engineer one sale, you can engineer the next.

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About the Author

Christian Mayer

Chris is the founder of the AI education company FINXTER, author of the Amazon Best-Seller Python One-Liners (NoStarch 2020), PhD computer scientist, and owner of one of the top free AI newsletters with 130k readers.

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