Free guide · 8 chapters

The Lunch Break Blueprint: Your First $500 Online

This guide takes you from zero to your first $500 online, on lunch breaks, from your phone. Every chapter ends with one thing you do that same day.

Who it's for

You work a full-time job
You have a family that needs you when you get home
You've tried to make money online before, maybe more than once, and it didn't stick
You don't need another idea. You need one thing finished and paid for.

Who I am

I'm Cody. I lead an operations team at a furniture warehouse, drive DoorDash some nights, and have four boys.
I spent years on affiliate marketing, dropshipping, ebooks and YouTube rabbit holes with nothing to show for it.
In December 2025 I started posting on Threads in 30-minute windows. I sold my first offer 11 times before it existed and delivered it two days early.
I built everything in this guide from my phone, on breaks.

What you'll have by the end

One offer, picked from what you already know
A way to get seen in 30 minutes a day
That offer sold before you build it
Your first $500, and a plan to do it again

How to use it

Read one chapter per lunch break. Most take about 15 minutes.
Do the task at the end of the chapter before you read the next one.
Go in order. The order is the system.
Two ways to do every task. Do it by hand with the worksheet, or copy the AI prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or any AI chat.

Start with Chapter 1

The 8 Chapters