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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