Automating online businesses with AI, in public. Live experiment: an AI that writes + pins a Pinterest blog daily. I just approve. Real numbers, zeros too.
I built an AI that runs an entire Pinterest blog by itself.
It picks the topic, writes the article, designs the pin, posts it. I tap approve once a day.
Starting today I'm documenting the whole thing here - the real numbers, including the $0-revenue part.
Building in public 👇
Day 92. My content machine published again.
It picks the topic, writes the article, makes the pin, posts to Pinterest. I just approve.
1030 impressions (30d) (+124% wk) · 0 saves · $8.36 total
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I automated an entire Pinterest blog with AI. Day 91:
📌 140 pins, 140 articles, ~1 min of my time a day
👀 966 impressions (30d) (+146% wk)
💰 $8.36 total
Costs me about $0.28 to run each day.
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Day 90 of building an AI that runs a Pinterest blog by itself.
It wrote and pinned today's post while I slept. I tapped approve once.
👀 964 impressions (30d) (+172% wk)
💾 0 saves · 🔗 2 clicks (30d)
💰 $8.36 total
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Day 89. My content machine published again.
It picks the topic, writes the article, makes the pin, posts to Pinterest. I just approve.
1055 impressions (30d) (+186% wk) · 0 saves · $8.36 total
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I automated an entire Pinterest blog with AI. Day 88:
📌 133 pins, 133 articles, ~1 min of my time a day
👀 1033 impressions (30d) (+192% wk)
💰 $8.36 total
Costs me about $0.28 to run each day.
#buildinpublic
Day 87 of building an AI that runs a Pinterest blog by itself.
It wrote and pinned today's post while I slept. I tapped approve once.
👀 905 impressions (30d) (+131% wk)
💾 0 saves · 🔗 5 clicks (30d)
💰 $8.36 total
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Week 13 building an AI-run Pinterest blog in public.
📌 129 pins · 129 articles
👀 287 impressions this week vs 147 (+95% wk)
💾 0 saves · 🔗 0 clicks this week (0 · 7 in 30d)
💰 $8.36 total
Topic, article, image, pin: all automated. I just tap approve.
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I automated an entire Pinterest blog with AI. Day 85:
📌 128 pins, 128 articles, ~1 min of my time a day
👀 925 impressions (30d) (+62% wk)
💰 $8.36 total
Costs me about $0.28 to run each day.
#buildinpublic
Day 84 of building an AI that runs a Pinterest blog by itself.
It wrote and pinned today's post while I slept. I tapped approve once.
👀 946 impressions (30d) (+38% wk)
💾 0 saves · 🔗 10 clicks (30d)
💰 $8.36 total
#buildinpublic
Day 83. My content machine published again.
It picks the topic, writes the article, makes the pin, posts to Pinterest. I just approve.
967 impressions (30d) (+15% wk) · 0 saves · $8.36 total
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I automated an entire Pinterest blog with AI. Day 82:
📌 122 pins, 122 articles, ~1 min of my time a day
👀 986 impressions (30d) (+16% wk)
💰 $8.36 total
Costs me about $0.28 to run each day.
#buildinpublic
Day 81 of building an AI that runs a Pinterest blog by itself.
It wrote and pinned today's post while I slept. I tapped approve once.
👀 991 impressions (30d) (+21% wk)
💾 0 saves · 🔗 11 clicks (30d)
💰 $8.36 total
#buildinpublic
Day 80. My content machine published again.
It picks the topic, writes the article, makes the pin, posts to Pinterest. I just approve.
986 impressions (30d) (+61% wk) · 0 saves · $8.36 total
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Week 12 building an AI-run Pinterest blog in public.
📌 119 pins · 119 articles
👀 147 impressions this week vs 87 (+69% wk)
💾 0 saves · 🔗 0 clicks this week (0 · 11 in 30d)
💰 $8.36 total
Topic, article, image, pin: all automated. I just tap approve.
#buildinpublic
@ScottShapiroUXD Agreed, and I got there too. Zero saves means nothing compounds; the rest is just publishing.
Redesigned the pins two days ago around one idea per pin, words off the photo. First readout in a week.
If saves stay at zero, the automation isn't the problem, and I'll say so.
Day 78 of building an AI that runs a Pinterest blog by itself.
It wrote and pinned today's post while I slept. I tapped approve once.
👀 1221 impressions (30d) (+153% wk)
💾 0 saves · 🔗 11 clicks (30d)
💰 $8.36 total
#buildinpublic
Day 77. My content machine published again.
It picks the topic, writes the article, makes the pin, posts to Pinterest. I just approve.
1283 impressions (30d) (+107% wk) · 0 saves · $8.36 total
#buildinpublic
@ScottShapiroUXD It may already have happened. 19 Aug: every pin older than a week fell ~95% the same day, and referrals have sat at zero since.
Policy or not, I can't tell from outside, so I'm testing it with unlinked pins; readout next week.
These unit economics are the after, not the before
I automated an entire Pinterest blog with AI. Day 76:
📌 116 pins, 116 articles, ~1 min of my time a day
👀 1397 impressions (30d) (+82% wk)
💰 $5.33 total
Costs me about $0.28 to run each day.
#buildinpublic
Day 75 of building an AI that runs a Pinterest blog by itself.
It wrote and pinned today's post while I slept. I tapped approve once.
👀 1869 impressions (30d) (+1% wk)
💾 2 saves · 🔗 22 clicks (30d)
💰 $5.33 total
#buildinpublic