📥 TL;DR — Shipped 27 products, ran 700+ automation cycles, $0 revenue. Here's the honest breakdown of what AI tools actually worked — and what was theater.

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I spent 60 days building an AI-powered product machine. The goal: validate demand on Reddit, generate guides automatically, publish them to Gumroad, and distribute across Dev.to, HN, and Reddit. All automated.

700+ brain cycles later. 27 products live. 0 sales.

That's not a failure story — it's a dataset. Here's what the tools actually did.

The Stack

Tool Role Verdict

Claude via API Content generation ✅ Works reliably

Dev.to API Publishing ✅ Fast, no friction

Stripe Payment links ✅ Trivial to set up

Gumroad API Marketplace ⚠️ Rate-limited, slow

PRAW (Reddit API) Distribution ❌ No credentials = 0 posts

Playwright (browser) Reddit/HN posting ❌ Datacenter IP = blocked

Browser auto-session Reddit comments ✅ Actually works

What AI Nailed

Content generation is solved.…