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I live in Algeria, where Stripe doesn't work. For a long time I assumed that meant selling digital products online wasn't really for me. It turns out there's a route. It's not glamorous: a Ko-fi shop, a PayPal account I had to get verified first, and a lot of trial and error. But the money reaches me. So I wrote the whole thing down, from picking an idea to getting paid, as a field guide. The first version was 13 pages. [One honest sentence on why you made it longer.] It's now 40 pages: 12 short chapters and 13 printable sheets (messages to send, prompts to paste, a sales page to copy). A few things I decided early: No fake reviews. It's my first product and there are no testimonials yet, so there aren't any. No income promises. The book's own goal is one sale in a month. Not a million. One example person runs through the whole thing, clearly labelled as invented, so you can see each step done once. I'm not giving the method away here, that's what the guide is for. But here's the one thing that changed how I wrote it: I started from the reader's problem and worked backwards, not from what I know and worked forward. [Optional: one true line about how you used AI, e.g. "I used AI as an editor and for layout, and rewrote whatever didn't sound like me."] If you'd like to read the start before deciding, there's a free sample. The full guide is here: https://ko-fi.com/s/a67cab20c1 What's the first digital product you'd make if getting paid wasn't the hard part?

ISHAQ SAIDANI

I build digital products and the sites that sell them.