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Chapter 7 – Invent Your Way Out

When the walls close in, when the lawyers, banks, and fraudsters have you cornered, you have two options:

1. Wait for someone to save you.

2. Invent your way out.

I chose the second one — every single time.

From Survival to Creation

You can’t out-yell a corrupt judge, and you can’t out-wait a bank holding your money hostage.
But you can out-create them.

When Shuman, Lew, Beck, and the rest were chewing up my time and money, I turned that same pressure into invention fuel. The same way some people channel stress into working out, I channel mine into building things that pay me back.

I didn’t have a luxury runway, a team of coders, or an investor. I had a problem and a laptop. And here’s the truth — invention doesn’t start with a patent; it starts with finding a crack in the wall and turning it into a door.

Real-World Examples

• RemoteTube – Started as me wanting an easy way to play YouTube playlists without endless menus. It became a working prototype in a few hours.

• Playlist Skins – I saw every YouTube playlist looking exactly the same. My answer? Custom skins that brand the creator’s work and upsell them into premium templates.

• Odorless Cannabis Concept – Came from real needs: privacy, compliance, and health. Instead of just talking about it, I filed it under my invention catalog.

• IdeasToInvent.com – A hub where I don’t just complain about problems — I post the solutions, open-source some, sell others.

The Process

Step 1 – Identify the pain point
The kind that keeps you up at night or costs you real money. For me, it was lost income and wasted time caused by fraud.

Step 2 – Imagine the “flip”
Ask: “What if I could turn this same problem into an income source?” For example, if I’m losing hours to uploading videos manually, maybe I can build an embed tool and sell it.

Step 3 – Build fast, sell faster
Perfect doesn’t pay the bills — working does. My first versions are minimum viable products. They sell before they’re pretty.

Step 4 – Stack income streams
Each invention isn’t just a one-off. I make sure it can feed into others — skins lead to templates, templates lead to merch mockups, merch leads to affiliate income.

The Mindset Shift

Most people see their problems as dead ends. I see them as raw materials. If a contractor scams me, I turn the evidence into a documentary. If a bank delays my funds, I create a financial tool to help others avoid the same trap — and charge for the solution.

This isn’t “positive thinking.” It’s tactical survival.

The Payoff

• Control over your time.

• Income that isn’t chained to a gatekeeper.

• Proof to yourself — and everyone watching — that you can’t be boxed in.

The walls aren’t there to keep you in. They’re there so you can figure out how to climb over, dig under, or blast right through. And when you do, you take the blueprint and sell it to the next guy still stuck inside.

I can also add screenshots and photos of your actual inventions like RemoteTube, playlist skins, and IdeasToInvent.com as part of this chapter so readers see it’s based on reality, not theory.

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