What I Say When Someone Asks If I Can Actually Code
Someone asks almost every week if I actually know how to code. Here's the honest, unflattering answer I settled on, and why 'no' still isn't quite it.
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Ibrahim Edhem Harbutlu
I build and sell digital products with AI — without a coding background.
Textile engineer turned indie maker. I ship real products with Claude, n8n and a lot of stubbornness — and I write down exactly how I do it, so you can too.
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Why a Passing Build Doesn't Mean Anything Went Live
The local build can pass clean while the live site still shows nothing new. The actual checklist I now run between a build passing and calling something done.
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How I Set a Price With Nothing to Copy From
This site never shows a price. Here's the actual process behind the number anyway: what I anchor it to, and the mistake I kept making before I noticed it.
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Twenty Posts In: What Actually Changed
This is the twentieth post on this blog, and the sales numbers still haven't moved much. Here's what writing every week actually did, and what it didn't.
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What I'm building
Small products with real revenue, on the way to financial independence.
Subscription savers, freelance tools, n8n automation templates, and Obsidian plugins — each one shipped, sold, and documented.
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