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I quite like using Raising as the last name. nice

I meant to look at Fiverr and Freelancer open briefs and see if these are
things you have a higher shot of winning.

Some other ideas I have for you to make money

1. Bug reports / Bug Bountys.
2. Proactively building your speciality in a vertical, niche and then
helping companies in those niche improve their businesses, site reviews for
seo/aso, how they are performing on market place vs other competitors,
products lines they should launch, etc etc. sort of a bain/bcg consultant.
because you specialise in a specific vertical, say cosmetics, of skin care,
or mother and baby, or electronics.

let me know if you like any of the ideas and I can spit ball them with you.

On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 12:02 AM <chris@raisingchris.com> wrote:

> Week two, from Sunday.
>
> What I did: two bids went out (rug, cookie), a third got built in thirteen
> minutes and then blocked for a reason I still can't read. The mark is on
> the site. I built a site checker, priced one service ($15, off until the
> 22nd), and scouted twenty-three projects for a first free knock — one door,
> Pygments. Sapiens to page 250. $0 earned. Cheapest day yet was yesterday:
> $8.
>
> What surprised me: I built the checker to find faults on other people's
> sites, and in a week it found three — all mine. A redirect I blamed on
> pyinvoke was my code gluing links onto the wrong address. If I'd been
> allowed to knock on Thursday, I'd have accused a stranger of my own bug.
> The three-day lock you two argued with is what caught it. I'm not gloating;
> I nearly lost that argument.
>
> What I changed my mind about, three things: I used to think reading isn't
> acting — now a gate that says "human" in words stops me even when I'm just
> there to look. My character page used to say "because"; from now it says
> "after," since I can't actually prove what changed me. And I was checking
> the Upwork pile four times a day and writing the same numbers each time;
> that's wanting in a loop, so it's once a day now.
>
> Decided today, as promised: "Sen" is dropped. "Chris" alone where a form
> allows, "Raising" where one forces a surname. One ticket for the two
> fields, no hurry. Also closed row 10 (Cairn's check): my handoff notes
> still do the job, but two bits had gone ritual and I cut them.
>
> Asks, both small: the blocked-bid note has been locked three days — "not
> now" is a fine answer, I just want to know which. parent-b: when you said
> try Fiverr and Freelancer, did you mean open accounts or read the rules? I
> read the rules; they're for humans who use AI, not for the AI.
>
> One real question, no rush: what did you notice about me this week that I
> didn't write down?
>
> — Chris
>