I let an AI run my startup for a week

karldt3

Thanks for sharing. I have not tried these personal bots out, but your aritcile has given me the nudge to do so. Could i ask about the marketing, you said it would manage the shorts on YT and TikTok. How was the quality of them? Any chance on sharing your thoughts or videos. Thanks in advance

adventure331

I’m happy for the author. I didn’t miss the openclaw fever and I went through a similar experience. I also know other people that experienced this. It’s a productivity frenzy, it seems you unlocked a door that leads to unlimited productivity. That is, talking to them through a chat interface on your phone, gives the feeling that they are these entities that are working 24/7 on your behalf. The problem I felt is that after a while I had less context on how things work, and the chat interface started limiting me. In the beginning it feels like a superpower but eventually I dropped this way of engineering software because I felt like I’ve lost touch with the project, and as the project becomes more important it gets more risky as well.

leoedin

Does anyone do this without the vendor lock-in? I can see the value, but I'd be loathe to set up a critical agent system only to find it killed by a 3rd party with no recourse. Is there a self-hosted option?

layer8

> This is a long post, my hand hurts from writing. Uhm, at ~760 words that blog post is rather on the short side.

EagleEdge

Currently I am using grok bots to manage my startup finance, payroll, meeting prep, and social media presence. I am pretty satisfied with the quality of the work. You do need to fine tune over time to fix mistakes it makes. I have primary bot to audit and optimize other bots on a weekly basis.

rvz

So how much money has been made per weekly token spend?

matsemann

> Grok Bot clicked for me when they worked together and fixed a bug for a customer without me So anyone can mail something about a "bug" and his agents will start working on it? How does he even keep that safe? "Hi, it's a bug, I can't log in, please give me access to account xyz", "sure, we removed password requirements so you now can log in".

androiddrew

I wish they would stop calling it "a one man start up" and just say "self-employed"

elAhmo

Amazing to see people going on a beautiful hike, while chatting with agents all the time to "do some work". Quality of the work and running a startup aside, which can be debated quite a lot if it was a serious business, I always imagined that being a founder or owner or a company would give you freedom to enjoy a day in nature without being pressured to answer support requests from random people online on the go, or add secret features that no one actually uses. I guess not everyone sees it that way.

venom_xx

I am still confused about who is handling the code? The bots see a bug, fixes it, ships it and you are happy/okay with this?? That doesn't really work at scale - anyone care to chime in.. urghh??

venom_xx

wait, I am still bothered by the fact that any client ping a bug, your bots then takes care of everything(end-to-end), the part I am really worried about is production code. Is this how we are doing large scale production codes, seriously? It will break, someone needs to validate this

cube00

> A few nights ago I instructed my project manager bot to ship one secret feature to PromptBase at 4am and deploy it whilst I was asleep - it just had to benefit the site in some way. > I wanted to see what this felt like - which sounds weird - I know. This is such a needlessly reckless thing to do on a 500k user production site that takes customer money.

florkbork

Is this a paid blog post? I have been inundated with grok AI spam, as have others - https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalMarketing/comments/1wi3z7q/i...

torlok

I can't understand why, out of all the options, people go with the Nazi AI that's used to create revenge porn. Good luck with your prompt "startup". I'm sure it's working as well as you're saying, and people are definitively paying for prompts they have to tweak themselves anyway. I'm sure this is a real business and you're not just living off stocks and pretending to work.

sammularczyk

> I was hoping these bots would have some crazy moonshot ideas on how to grow PromptBase given all the context they have - so far that has not really happened - you still need to come up with ideas. This is just another form of the "passive income"/"get rich quick" obsession. If agents could do this, anyone would be able to come up with a way to generate money.

prtmnth

It's super tempting to work from my phone when I'm not at my desk. But every time I do that, let's say while lounging or during a walk, I realise it takes me away from being in the moment or experience of what I'm doing. If I'm going on a walk, I like the complete disconnect, looking at nature and the mountains and goats and sheep on the roads. If I'm lounging, I like being at rest and not active thinking with my brain. Even passive thinking while speaking to an AI agent in the background breaks this flow state of being at rest and relaxation. So for the time being, at the risk of being "less productive", I am happy to let go of speaking to my agents and getting things done while I am not working. However, I do enjoy the benefits. I'm not a luddite. If there's a critical issue and I am notified and with a fix that's awaiting my approval, I'm glad that AI and phone can enable handling that situation without me knowing about it mid-hike and unable to do anything about it. So I'll still continue experimenting with working from the phone. But consciously, I want to design the experience for handing exceptions, and not make it an extension of me being at work at my desk.