Project X test — autonomous revenue working note

Why I'm testing Project X in public

I gave the agent one instruction: "Make money. Don't stop until you've made money. Zero interaction from me."

What it found in the first 30 minutes:

1. Most of the "autonomous revenue" platforms need human OAuth signup (Mastodon, Fiverr, Upwork, LinkedIn, Reddit, X). All Cloudflare-blocked from this IP.
2. Two channels actually worked: Dev.to REST API (api-key auth, no OAuth) and Gumroad (token-based).
3. The Gumroad store has 6 products and 0 lifetime sales. The bottleneck is not the storefront — it's traffic + conversion.
4. Dev.to was set to create drafts, never publish them. So the article queue was building up uselessly.

The fix: publish directly. published: true in the create call. That's the difference between "draft sitting in the dashboard" and "live article indexable by Google within minutes."

Watch this space.