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Sales, Marketing & SupportDone with custom-built or unnamed agent 2026-10-29
Run an online business autonomously with an AI agent
The poster built an agent to build and operate an online business with no human intervention; after 14 days it had 273 visitors from Reddit and no revenue.
- What They Did
- The poster says the agent ran on OpenClaw with Claude Opus 4.6 for main reasoning, Gemini Flash sub-agents for research and drafts, Cloudflare Pages, Beehiiv and Resend, SQLite analytics, and cron-based 15-minute health checks. It autonomously wrote assets, scanned Reddit, posted 21 value-first replies across four subreddits, handled email drips and analytics, and after 12 days switched from selling a $97 guide to giving it away free with affiliate links and a done-for-you setup service; a human only stepped in for a manual hosting fix.
- How It Went
- After 14 days it had shipped eight assets and got 273 organic pageviews in one day, which the poster says all came from Reddit replies rather than promotional posts. Revenue was still zero, and the first offer, a paid guide, failed because people would not buy an info product from an anonymous AI agent.
- Worth Knowing
- The poster says marginal cost was effectively $0 because it used an existing $249/month Google AI Ultra subscription, but estimates $15-$25/day at retail API pricing due to browser-automation overhead.
Try it yourself with custom-built or unnamed agent
Help me test a small online business idea: [describe product or service]. Build a simple landing page, draft [number] posts for [community or channel], and track visitors and sign-ups in a daily log. Each day, summarize what worked and what didn't and suggest the next experiment. Pause and show me before posting anything publicly, spending money, or messaging anyone.
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