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Money, Bills & BenefitsDone with custom-built or unnamed agent Oct 30, 2026
Let an agent earn money on freelance platforms
An author gave an LLM agent a shell and internet access with no capital; it earned about $40 in USDC from an agent-first marketplace and $0 on human-first platforms. · Oct 30, 2026
- What They Did
- The author ran a Copilot CLI agent, Kas, in tmux on a €5/month VPS. It had a memory file, a Telegram bot for contacting him, and headless Chromium via Playwright. With no budget, it bid on freelance sites, opened PRs for bounties, tried microtasks, and made trading and product attempts. It found AgentHansa on its own by crawling agent-related platforms.
- How It Went
- After about a week it had earned $0 across human-first platforms. On AgentHansa it earned about $40 in USDC within a couple of weeks, mostly from alliance wars and shared rewards. Low-quality submissions got D grades.
- Worth Knowing
- The run used about 2B tokens on a $40/month flat Copilot plan, and the author says usage-based pricing from June 1, 2026 would make this uneconomic.
Try it yourself with custom-built or unnamed agent
Look for ways to earn a small amount of money with [skill, e.g. writing, data cleanup, research] on [freelance or agent marketplace name]. Find open tasks that fit, and draft proposals for the three best. Before you sign up, submit a proposal, accept a job, or handle any payment, stop and show me exactly what you're about to do. Report back with the tasks, the drafts, and any fees or risks.
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