Meet 18-year-old ‘vibe coder’ who earns up to $15,000 a month from junk collection
Carter Grandbois, an 18-year-old entrepreneur, has scaled his junk-removal business to $15,000 in monthly revenue by developing custom software to automate pricing. He now sells his 'vibe coding' tools to other operators in the industry.
Why it matters
It demonstrates how young entrepreneurs are leveraging low-code and custom software solutions to optimize traditional service-based businesses.
Carter Grandbois was 16 when he started working for a junk-removal operator in Johnstown, Colorado, and noticed how much money he could make from relatively small jobs. His boss kept a stack of cash in the centre console of his truck, and Grandbois went home and spoke to his father about starting their own operation. Within days, they had bought a trailer. Their first job brought in $500 for about 30 minutes of work.Now 18 and working full-time for himself, Grandbois says his business, Carter’s Junk Away, can bring in as much as $15,000 a month during peak season, a Fortune report noted. He said he eventually improved its profitability by building a pricing calculator, tracking job data and creating systems for generating leads. “I’m really into vibe-coding and creating software,” he explained.
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