The dumbest AI agents making real money: a $10M ARR support bot and more
radhyaa_15 · reddit · 2026-10-16
A Reddit thread collects 'embarrassingly simple' AI agents making real money: an inbox sorter that drafts replies in your voice with serious ARR, a paste-your-docs support bot bootstrapped to $10M ARR, and one that just answers phones at restaurants. The pattern: pick one boring job humans hate and spend more time on prompts than architecture. Practical tip from builders: get prompts out of the codebase early — prompts change weekly, code doesn't, so use prompt management tooling or a JSON file in a bucket. OP is collecting more examples.
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