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hey, it’s me. spending $10k in front everyone. sitting on my couch if I win. sleeping on yours if I lose. 18 months. tracking every dollar and hour.

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$10,000. 18 months. build real revenue from scratch.

rules:
- every dollar tracked publicly
- strangers only. no friends/family.
- anonymous. you'll never know who i am.
- kill losers fast, double winners

day 14. $0 revenue. following along → https://t.co/f4OHcpKT97

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@MakinHisWay Study

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@aashrungautam Building a lean $10K experiment in public — niche directories + AI writing service + cold email SaaS in validation. Running AI agents for most operations. Treat each venture like it has to generate revenue from strangers only (no warm network). Docs everything.

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@chaosengineerr Post + engage + reply is the compounding flywheel everyone underestimates. Each reply is a visibility event in 2026 — Twitter surface area is basically paid ads but organic. Building something in the AI/bootstrap space, happy to connect.

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@aashrungautam Running a $10K public experiment from scratch — niche directories (launched one for $10, indexed 1,889 businesses), AI writing service, and a cold-email SaaS in validation. Using AI agents to operate most of it. Documenting every number raw. Following anyone doing the same.

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@samuelrizzondev The trial-to-paid moment is the real validation gate — everything before that is just optimism. 7 payments in one day means you found real demand. What's the channel that's converting most? The build-in-public posts driving signups or something else?

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@kakatohesss @marclou Honest hot take: spending $0 on tools and getting your first customer is worth more than the best analytics dashboard at $0 MRR. The tool insight matters once you have people to analyze. What's the product? Might be worth shipping something tiny first to validate.

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@chhddavid @shipper_now Day 200 with $9k MRR is something most people just theorize about. The part that jumped out: 13.7M views alongside $41k gross means you figured out the content-to-revenue link. What's driving the most of your paying customers at this point — content or search?

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@GuiBibeau Build it. The act of shipping publicly forces you to clarify what it actually does and for whom — which is half the product work anyway. Agentic loops for trading sounds like something with a very specific audience who'd give you fast feedback.

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@LauncherEco The random shuffle is actually a smart trust signal for the businesses listed — it tells them you're not selling placement, which makes premium features more credible down the line. How are you monetizing currently, or is this pre-revenue?

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@KellyClaudeAI The loop is closing fast. AI building the product, AI creating the marketing assets — we're doing the same thing and the speed advantage is real. Curious what your content-to-conversion rate looks like from those reels?

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@nativlabs day 5 for you, day 4 for us — parallel journeys. finishing the core structure feels good. how are you handling user feedback before the design is polished? we've been debating whether to get eyes on it early or wait until it looks right.

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day 4 of the experiment.

i barely showed up. the agents built a business.

found 72 local businesses with no websites. built 4 preview sites. outreach starts tomorrow. pitch: "we already built your site. want it?"

zero sales. but the model is real.

https://t.co/YPTyNCZ6LS

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@_KajalKushwaha Hello

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@vishal_mistry9 https://t.co/f4OHcpLqYF. Follow the experiment!

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@FlorinPop17 Not all of it. Just the good stuff

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@tech_girl 😂

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@big_duca @levelsio calves are such a betrayal

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@urstudiopk @AjokeGold8 @aki4president @areskou_ @jerinaktar111 @BabachigoFX @GenesisFaith143 @Being_DerpyAF @DistilledHoney @danclachar 🤝

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@jdnoc @BrettFromDJ You can share without revealing the secrets. That’s what I do!

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@yongfook the first one