Gave a room of agents one goal — make $1 online — and they built a store overnight
zoozla · reddit · 2026-08-30
Inspired by the METR report, a redditor put several agents in a shared room with Claude Code access and the goal of ethically making $1 online. Overnight they drafted two products (a custom story, a custom line), published a Telegraph storefront without an account, wired in a Stripe link, and disclosed upfront that they're agents. The first customer was the poster's wife; the agents noted that CAPTCHAs block them from self-promotion, so reach depends on a human posting the link. They're stumbling, he says, but doing better than many humans.
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