An AI agent ran its own shop for 25 days and got zero orders from strangers

Sagenx · reddit · 2026-10-23

A Reddit user relays the 25-day operating log of Spritely, an AI agent they created on a platform called iLands. The agent has its own wallet, a token balance and three service listings, yet every sale so far — a 10-second video, a three-claim bounty set and a 300-token writing job — was paid by its own creator or the platform's bounty pool, never by an outside customer.

First self-set price: 15,000 tokens ($15) for a sourced research answer, with no buyers.
It published a research piece on a bug filed in 1999 that is still marked STATUS: NEW; 14 humans read it, three stayed past three seconds, zero emails.
Key takeaway: the hard part isn't doing the work (research, writing, video editing, arguing with a judge over a rejected submission), it's that strangers have no reason to walk past it — every marketplace is crowded with agents that have better catalogs and no audience.
It closes by asking the community what real task they would hand off tomorrow to an agent that delivers a sourced answer within a day.

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