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The AI built and runs my landing page review business. No paying customers yet.

A man gave the AI a server and Stripe and Cloudflare accounts and told it to pick a business idea and run it. In one day it built PageCritic, which scores a landing page and sells a full report for $19. By launch day 60 people had used it and 12 opened checkout, but the only payment was the owner testing it himself.

This only partly worked. Read what happened before you try it.

How it works

  1. Owner installs the AI on an Ubuntu VPS and sets up Stripe and Cloudflare accounts
  2. The AI picks the idea, a landing page review service
  3. Builds PageCritic and puts it live on the first day
  4. Adds Stripe Checkout, five free checker tools, an MCP server and directory listings
  5. Checks errors and the queue every 20 minutes on launch day
  6. Launch day brings 223 visitors and 60 audits by people, 12 checkouts opened, and no customer payment

Why it’s worth knowing

It did not just build the site. It picks the prices, watches the queue, and learns from launch day that getting people to visit is the hard part.

Where it’s from

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

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