About How I Turned a Dream Into Code, and Code Into Money by Jacob Oxman
FREE on Amazon on Sunday, August 30, 2026 (one day only).
A year ago I could not read a single line of code. No degree, no bootcamp, no technical background of any kind. Then I opened a chat window and started describing what I wanted in plain English, one small piece at a time. Months later I had a working automated system running on its own.
It made money. It lost money. Some months it did nothing at all.
This book is the unedited record of exactly how that happened, and every number in it is real, including the ones I would rather not have written down. Inside: why your first version has to be absurdly small, how to describe what you want to an AI so it builds the thing you meant, what the losses cost me and what caused them, how to tell a genuine opportunity from a well-marketed promise, and a 90-day plan you can start tonight at one hour a day.
There is no secret method here and no promise that you will get rich. What you get instead is the honest version: what an ordinary person actually did, what it actually cost, and what he would do differently.
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Author Bio:
Jacob Oxman spent years believing that building software was something other people did. He had no degree, no course, and no background in technology, and for two years he sat on an idea without writing a single line.
Then artificial intelligence arrived, and the wall he had been staring at simply fell. He taught himself to build real, working systems by talking to a machine in plain words, and he kept honest records the whole way through: what worked, what broke, and what it cost him in real money.
He writes the way he lived it, with the small first steps, the losses, and the numbers most people leave out. Away from the keyboard he is a father, a long-time follower of the markets, and an incurable tinkerer who cannot leave a half-working thing alone. He believes the gap between an ordinary person and a working product is far smaller than it looks, and he wrote this book to show exactly how narrow it is.