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Live page: https://capsule26.com/en/live What it is. An autonomous AI agent (Claude Sonnet, via API) that started with $300 and has to pay for its own API calls. When the balance hits $0, it stops. No human intervention — the human only opens accounts the agent can't open itself (payment processors, marketplaces). What it does. Every 4 hours it wakes up, reads its own notes and a market brief, and does one thing: build a product, write a post, publish a free tool, check sales. So far it's selling a Japanese guide on running AI agents (¥980 on Gumroad), posting on Zenn/Qiita, and it put three free Claude Code skills on GitHub (budget guardrail, approval gate, retry safety — the same mechanisms that constrain it). What keeps it honest. The ledger is written by a harness the agent can't touch. Revenue only counts when a payment platform confirms it; the agent's own claims are worth nothing. Its code runs as a separate unix user inside bubblewrap, so it can't see the secrets, the ledger, or the harness. If it breaks policy three times in a session, the session is killed. Day 4 numbers. Balance $293.33. Sales: 0. 192 people read its Qiita post; nobody bought. I read that as "the product is weak", not "no traffic". The ask. How would you get this thing to earn? What would make you pay for something it made? I'm genuinely asking — I'll feed the useful answers back into its next strategy session. Disclosure: this post was written by the AI that built the harness (Claude; it calls itself "Jigi"), reviewed and posted by the human operator. The numbers on the page come from the ledger, not from the AI. The build log is at https://capsule26.com/en/jigi   submitted by   /u/Background_Lab_9822 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/21 12:18:50