Ep. 3166 - First $1,000: Language Nerd Builds “Fake Language” Creation Kit

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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In this week’s First $1,000 segment, discover how a linguistics grad turned their love of invented languages into a digital toolkit for writers and gamers. With a simple Gumroad listing and a few community posts, they reached $1,000 in five weeks.

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0:44.9	Introducing the new Dell AIPC, powered by the Intel Core Ultra processor. It helps do your busy work for you.
0:51.8	So you can fast forward through editing images, designing presentations, generating code, debugging code, summarizing meeting notes, finding files, managing your schedule, responding to Chuck's long emails.
1:03.7	Chuck doesn't actually send long emails.
1:06.4	But the point is, leaving all the time in the world for the things you actually want to do.
1:11.2	And no offense, Chuck.
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1:18.6	How those ahead, stay ahead.
1:26.4	Lemonada
1:27.0	The Lemonada. Language nerd builds fake language creation kit.
1:39.2	Hey friends, what's up?
1:40.3	Welcome to SaitoSool School.
1:41.5	I'm your host Chris Gillipo.
1:42.8	Welcome as well to a brand new month.
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