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An AI runs growth for my side project and took it from 4 to 96 weekly users

He built Stackboard, a free Chrome new tab page that shows your own bookmarks as a board. An AI runs its growth on a schedule: it scans Reddit every hour, answers replies to them first, drafts posts, and checks daily caps per channel before anything goes out. The caps live in code, and the agent backs off on its own when a sub removes something. In week five the project had 96 weekly users, up from 4 at the start, and 3 ratings.

How it works

  1. Agent scans Reddit every hour
  2. Answers replies first
  3. Drafts posts
  4. Checks the daily cap for each channel in code before posting
  5. Backs off when a sub removes a post

Why it’s worth knowing

The limits are in code, not in a prompt, and the agent slows itself down when a community pushes back.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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